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The best Friday in recent memory
And yet, I was up at 7am. I didn’t set my alarm or anything. I was just so congested from all the smoke in our air recently that I couldn’t sleep, so I begrudgingly figured I’d go ahead and start my...
View ArticleDreaming of more space
We’ve been feeling slightly claustrophobic in our house lately — and not only because we just hosted 19 people in our house for Thanksgiving. Our house was built in the mid-’50s. One of the bedrooms is...
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Thanksgiving week in photos
Monday Poppy and her soccer team finished their season a few weeks ago, but they decided they still wanted to get together to play. They spent about an hour playing before we had to go. I spent most of...
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Soup seems like a good plan for post-holiday dining
We had a really lovely and surprisingly productive Thanksgiving break. Poppy and I went to the movies twice (to see “Hidden Figures” and “Moana,” both of which we loved), Rockford and his team of...
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You don’t have to be a crafter to send a spectacular greeting card.
Hallmark provided product as a giveaway, but no money changed hands in exchange for this post. Nichole just really likes the cards and thought you would, too. Once upon a time, I was surrounded by...
View ArticleNaBloPoMo 2016 comes to a close
And just like that, another National Blog Posting Month is in the books. We celebrated birthdays, and we tried unusual condiments. We talked about how to homeschool, and we talked about what our...
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Waffles waffles everywhere, and all the jams did leak
This evening I needed to make a béchamel for my Thanksgiving mac & cheese, but instead I got carried off to Waffletown. Rockford got a waffle maker a few months ago, and ever since he ordered it...
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Rockford’s contribution to Thanksgiving
We have a few dishes that appear on our Thanksgiving table every year. One of them is Rockford’s very sweet and tasty Sweet Potato Casserole. Here’s the recipe: Rockford’s Sweet Potato Casserole 4...
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The Day After: In which we posit that the fourth Friday in November may be...
I think I may like the day after Thanksgiving even more than Thanksgiving Day. It’s opening day of eggnog season, for one thing, and you still have all of the family time and great food but you don’t...
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Nichole goes Small Business Saturday shopping
If a trio of ladies goes Christmas shopping and doesn’t take a selfie, did they really go shopping? Are they really ladies? Is it really Christmastime at all? I sure hope so on all counts, because...
View ArticleWhen life hands you superfluous turkey
The grocery store my in-laws go to were having a Buy Some Groceries And Get A Turkey For 50 Cents1)not the actual price sale a few weeks ago, so they bought one. But then my sister-in-law decided to...
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I probably should’ve planned to eat kale and quinoa all week
We had a really lovely Thanksgiving break, and I’m not ready for it to be over. We made the most of our last day of freedom yesterday by doing some Christmas shopping, putting up the last of our...
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A timeline of culinary misadventures
1989. The time when I didn’t know how to cook but my little brother was hungry so I made him Every Spice In The Cabinet Soup. It was terrible, but he ate it and pretended it was good. 1997. The time...
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A resurrection story
So here’s a fun and wacky story: Quite a while back my laptop computer died, and the computer fix-it shop said something like “Sorry, it’s dead forever” or “Sorry, it’ll cost $4,826 to fix.” I don’t...
View ArticleNaBloPoMo No Mo’
Alas, poor November, we documented it well. We were a little sappy about Poppy and Pete. We reminisced about the small traumas of childhood, both Grandma-induced and borne of our own weird imaginings....
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Documenting the everyday
Today is #OneDayHH day on instagram. It’s a thing Laura Tremaine, formerly of the Hollywood Housewife blog, came up with a few years ago in which you take pictures of what you’re doing all day long and...
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