Week in Review

Meals for the week Chicken burritos Braised chicken with carrots and rice Salisbury steak with mushroom gravy, potatoes au gratin, corn on the cob Apple pancakes, sausage, bacon, scrambled cheese eggs, fresh fruit Turkey breast, mashed potatoes, stuffing, broccoli Chicken sausage and mushroom calzones Thanksgiving sandwiches, fresh fruit Eye Towards Rhythm Circle time was re-established! [...]

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Nesting

It seems to happen in bursts for me.  I go into a frenzy of cleaning, de-cluttering, and organizing and well, I’m having another burst!  My recent and current projects: Boys’ Room – I painted it RED!  James helped move the furniture and disassemble the bunk-beds and together we came up with a new layout for [...]

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Seeing Red

I’ve wanted to paint the boys’ room for some time.  It was on the “to-do” list that kept growing instead of shrinking. The boys were rooting for blue, but in order to match what we already have, it would have been navy blue or a light blue.  Light blue would have needed a primer coat [...]

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Simplicity

I’m back on track with my de-cluttering the house.  No less than 6 cardboard boxes are stacked and waiting to be recycled.  A pile of things to be donated to Goodwill is being accumulated.  I discovered that I do indeed have a countertop in the kitchen and hope to find that I have lots of [...]

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Pantry Organization

It’s been on my to-do list for weeks and I finally got around to it!  I’ve been getting containers through Frontier ($2.10 for the gallon size) for the past couple of months to have some sort of affordable storage system and I’m quite happy with the results. Storage on the top shelf for serving baskets [...]

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A little fabric

My friend Maria gave me some wonderful fabric and notions from her grandmother and this inspired me to organize my fabric yesterday.  I’m hoping this small task will now inspire me to get sewing.  I have an anxious little girl waiting for her birdie pajama pants.  The pattern is pinned and will literally take me [...]

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In the Kitchen

I didn’t give up the computer for Lent, but I have somehow managed to spend more time away from it lately, which definitely has it’s benefits, but does mean less blogging and such. I found two cool baking sites that I wanted to share: Baking Bites – Yummy recipes for making Girl Scout cookies.  I [...]

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Grain Storage

I love that we get can get organic wheat berries, oats, other grains, beans, and rice through our co-op at a super great price, but then we had trouble finding an affordable storage solution.  Sure, they sell these great containers at the specialty cooking stores or flour storage buckets at King Arthur Flour, but at [...]

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Kitchen Meanderings

What does one do with 5 dozen eggs? Well you adjust your co-op order to better suit the needs of your family. You include more eggs in your meal planning for the weeks ahead. You make eggs every morning for breakfast, make deviled eggs to snack on, and egg salad sandwiches for lunch. You make [...]

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Meal Planning 101

In an effort to be more organized this year, James and I came up with a rotating categories list to assist us in meal planning.  We’ve always done really well with this system in the past, only using 7 categories, but we wanted a bit more variety and expanded it to 13. Here are the [...]

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