How Sweet It Is: Valentine’s Treats and Eats for Your Sweetheart

{photo credit} You know the way to a man’s heart, right?  It starts in the oven!  Let’s start with dessert first, shall we? Here’s Some of My Favorite Valentine’s Sweet Treats:   These Valentine’s Day Peanut Butter Cookies from Betty Crocker topped with a chocolate heart have my name written all over them. I can …

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Foodily = Food I Love You

Foodily = Food I Love You! I’ve been dying to let you in on the newest secret of the internet: Foodily.  You all are going to discover it and LOVE it.  It’s launched just in time for you to find some crowd pleasing Super Bowl recipes! For instance, I just searched guacamole in the search …

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Rice Krispies Holiday Challenge: Rice Krispies Christmas Cake

You might recall that I teamed up with The Motherhood and Rice Krispies for a “Back to School Recipe Challenge”.  We had a great time coming up with our Cranberry Macadamia Rice Krispies on a Stick creation.  So when they asked me to join 30 bloggers in a Holiday Challenge with a $100 Visa Gift …

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My “Pledge” to Be More Domestic

You know how I’ve been struggling with balancing it all?  Well, I’ve made some great strides.  I’ve scheduled some “me” appointments, I’ve been exercising more often, I’ve been studying my Bible better, I’ve been working on my role as a wife not just a mother, and a few other things.  However, housekeeping keeps falling through …

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Cranberry Macadamia Rice Krispies on a Stick

The super creative women at The Motherhood asked me to team up with Rice Krispies to create a Rice Krispies Treats® creation. Our theme was “Back to School” and the recipe had to contain either a fruit or a nut.  Each of the 10 selected bloggers worked together to form a sentence with our secret …

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Tots Travel Too (Awesome Giveaway!)

Traveling with Toddlers is no cake walk.  The Packing. The Planning. The Airport. Or Arguably Worse, Hours Trapped in CAR SEATS. Then when you arrive at your destination you are home free, right?  Well not exactly. If you’ve experienced life with a toddler, you know full well that there’s never truly a “break” from motherhood, …

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Motherhoood Is…

tender. terrifying. tiring. tough. tantalizing. thrilling. traumatic.   Motherhood certainly has its moments. There are moments of delight, heroism, and satisfaction, as well as moments of fear, discouragement, and grief. (And all of this can be experienced within the first half hour of the day.)  Regardless of what you feed your family for dinner, the …

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Before You Hit the Road, Jack

I came across some of our Walt Disney World Videos last night.  Ahhhh, the memories.  Several of you asked for Trip Planning, Packing, and Executing ideas after we came home,and at the time I was overwhelmed with this endless load. So now that we’ve conquered potty training (insert angels singing) I might get around to …

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