As we look ahead to another gift giving season, I’ve got some AMAZING Christmas gift ideas for her! You know, the person who does all the gift shopping and never has a surprise under the tree? These holiday gift ideas make it easy for you to surprise her with something she will absolutely love! I own everything on this list…
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Hello, dear friends. It’s been far too long since my last post. I’m almost embarrassed, but only almost. 2025 saw lots of changes at home — hubby changed jobs and we moved permanently to South Carolina. Our son’s fixer upper needed a kitchen, so we made lots of trips to Birmingham to help with that. And, well… we enjoyed some…
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I feel like I just put my Christmas decorations away (probably because I did), and now it’s time to think about sweet goodness for Valentine’s day — like these raspberry cookies made with real, freeze dried raspberries and drizzled in white chocolate. My husband wasn’t much of a fan of cutout sugar cookies, saying that they don’t have much flavor….
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Here we are staring at a new year, a fresh calendar, a chance to change “for the better.” But is it really “better” to set new year’s resolutions? As 2022 came to a close, I wrote a post on Facebook about why I don’t set resolutions anymore. As you know from the dieting ads, the exercise equipment ads, gym membership…
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Updated December, 2022 We have always loved family game night! Once, we played a game of Rummikub that took more than three weeks. Just when we thought someone would win, another player would win the critical round and set the front-runner back. We’d play a few rounds each night after dinner until the big winner (me) finally declared victory! As…
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Many years ago, I started a new tradition of learning something new every year. Some years, it was practical stuff related to blogging skills or being more organized with home schooling my kids. Some years, it was necessity to improve my health. Some years, I chose skills just for fun — like how to use my camera in manual mode….
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