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Accountability

Hi Friends! Since my last post, I have made a lot of progress in purging some areas of our house.  In the room we call a dining room (but is really a library/classroom,) we...

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Taking Back our Home in 2016!

It is almost 2016! I am almost embarrassed to tell you how long it will take me to write that date instead of 2015…. However, I am happy to tell you that in the...

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Chocolate Candy

    Thanksgiving leftovers are long gone, and now we are all thinking about Christmas. Christmas, to many of us, brings back memories of traditional foods and sweets. It has been a challenge for...

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving! Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord;     let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come...

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Healthy Pumpkin Pie!

Mary, at age 7, likes nothing more than to be in the kitchen baking or cooking.  In fact, two Sunday’s ago, she woke up with this pie crust recipe she wanted to try (honest!) ...

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Plastic to Glass – Part II

It has been a long time in coming!!  Below is a picture of what I would say are my favorite containers.  I cannot ever have too many. Square or rectangular containers will fit in...

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Have Extra Garden Produce???

A few years ago, I had an abundance of vegetables from the garden, and really needed to figure out what to do with it all.  As hard as I try, I am really terrible...

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Moving from plastic to glass…Part 1!

Over the course of the past decade or so, I have been working my way toward being as ‘plastic free’ as possible. There’s no way I can swear off all plastic. Who could survive...