My littest son ‘R’ is becomming a fussy eater. I am struggling to find fruits that he will eat this time of year. Usually he goes for strawberries, and raspberries, but they are not easilly found in Maine during the winter months. I decided to buy some dried fruit and incorporate it into a bar….
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Christmas is officially over. We had a fabulous holiday. Did you? After a month full of Christmas parties, Santa sightings, and shopping, Christmas day finally arrived. My husband, kids and I stayed home all day on Christmas, and enjoyed every minute of it. The boys stayed in the pj’s the entire day, and actually got…
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Merry Christmas from my family to yours.
First I will say that I did not intend to make salt dough ornaments this year, so that is why this post is coming to you two days before Christmas. But then, I read this post from one of my favorite bloggers, and decided to go ahead. We made salt dough ornaments last Christmas, but…
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Tis the season to make a batch of fudge, or two. 🙂 I am not usually much of a fudge maker since it is full of sugar, but this year I thought I would make a batch to enjoy, and give a little out at the same time. This fudge came out delicious. It is…
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I just love to add granola to my Greek yogurt in the mornings. Actually, I even put it on ice cream. Confession: I am eating this on ice cream right now. 🙂 The simple mommy pleasures once the kids are in bed. Sigh. I made a little extra and added some to a few mason…
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I just love this time of year. I spend most of my time in the kitchen listening to Christmas music, sipping cocoa, and baking. I made these birch bark pretzels this past Sunday during a snow storm. The view out my window was beautiful. (I should have taken a picture.) I have admitted in the past…
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Another Christmas shopping weekend is behind us. Did you venture out into the stores? I had to pick up a few non-Christmas essentials at Target and it was crazy. Thankfully I love shopping so my Christmas gift list has been done for a while now. Now we are back to Monday with only one week…
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Happy Friday. We are another week closer to Christmas. This month is flying by for us I feel like we are running out of time to make all of our fun holiday crafts. We did make time for this one though. Making Glitter Goop has become a Christmas tradition for the boys and I. We…
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So I finally caved and got the elf. Lately my boys have been giving us a really hard time. My little guy has multiple tantrums each day, which as I’m sure many of you know, is exhausting. My friend Missy convinced me that this elf is the exact thing we need right now. I have to…
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