This week I’ve been talking about how we celebrate birthdays. So far I talked about where we went out to eat and the birthday cake. Now it’s time for the Birthday Meal at home. Since most of our Birthday Traditions involve food, we can’t do ALL of them on the same day. We went out for…
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Continue ReadingLast week my parents were visiting from Alabama. They are preparing to move here to Texas and it was a busy, but fun, week looking at houses. Because we were on the go I did a few crock pot meals which we ate for dinner and sometimes lunch the next day. By the end of…
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Continue ReadingBBQ Pork Sandwiches….easy dinner for busy families! Fall, or so they call it here in Texas, is a very busy time of year for us. I know this is the case for many families. For us it’s not all year long, for which I am thankful. As a face painter, fall is our oldest daughter’s busiest…
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Continue ReadingI like to plan our meals a month in advance, then make one big grocery list and get everything that I need. A few months ago I was making the monthly menu and feeling like we had been eating the “same ol’ thing”, so I decided to look through my cookbooks. In my Gooseberry Patch…
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Continue Reading“What’s for dinner?” That is a question I am asked at LEAST four times a day, once by each member of the family. Usually when I tell them what we are having, the response is something like, “Oh, good”, but about one a week I get the typical, “Oh, leftovers” (spoken in a somewhat dejected…