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Baked Potato Soup

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January is soup month.  It’s the last day of the month so I’m slipping this soup post while I have an excuse to do so.  I LOVE soup.  It’s warm, delicious and is perfect on rainy days.  We don’t have snow here, so rainy cold days are the closest thing I get. This recipe is [...]

Ric Rac Towels and Mindy Mae’s Market

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I’m such an impulse buyer sometimes.  It’s horrible.  I end up really loving the stuff I get or returning it within 24 hours, and I usually return more than I spend.  No guilt over here.  When I go to Target and see a cute shirt I buy it.  I take it home and see what I think…trying [...]

Cornchip Day ~ Frito Pie

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I miss playing music.  It’s almost impossible to play my viola with the kids awake (they want to touch and see and yell at me if I say no) and I can’t play when they are asleep…what if they wake up?  We can’t have that.  *sigh*  Someday soon I’ll get my chops back.   In [...]

Pleated Apron with Built-In Hot Pads

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I got to experience one of my favorite things in the world this morning. I showered alone.  While it may not seem that impressive, I assure you it is.  Most days if I want to get clean I have to wait for Thing 2′s nap and there is no way Thing 1 is going to [...]

Chocolate Cake Day ~ Chocolate Wasted Cake

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It’s National Chocolate Cake Day.  This pretty much sounds like the best holiday ever.  I mean, come on.  It’s an excuse to bake and eat an entire some chocolate cake. I spent last night making this cake for you.  Can I just tell you how hard it is to keep a two year old calm and collected [...]

Slow Cooker Carnitas

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Shopping for bras is pain, especially since this is my first over the should boulder holder purchase since popping out Thing 2.  Both my nursing/all the time bras crapped out on me.  The under wire broke on one, snapped in half, and the other under wire popped out the side right by my armpit.  It’s annoying and it hurts. [...]

Chocolate-Hazelnut & Nougat Cookies

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I’ve been having so much fun linking up to different blogs this past week.  I found a lot of new blogs to share with and get ideas from.  I added their buttons on the side bar.  I’m sure they would all love to have you come check out their link up parties and share your [...]

Country Fried NY Strip Steak

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It a miracle.  The 55 is ALIVE!!!  I’m so freakin excited.  Mike is over the moon.  He spent days with the car trying to turn over, but not firing, and trying everything he could think of to fix things.  Luckily yesterday a friend of my step-dad’s came over an worked some serious magic.  For his first order of business Mikey [...]

Crispy Chicken with Creamy Italian Sauce

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What is going on in my house? I feel like I have a newborn again. I’m sleeping 4 hours because both kids are getting up at various times during the night.  Thing 1 runs into my room and hops in bed.  Mom’s just too tired to bother putting him in his bed right away.  And he is a bed [...]