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Cream Soup Base Recipe & Our Weekly Menu

The other night, I realized that I was out of cream of mushroom soup when I needed a can to prepare our steak stroganoff. I searched and searched and compiled a few recipes to come up with a substitute version that could be modified to make any type of cream soup. It took only a […]

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2012 Word Of The Year

Last year we picked health for our word of the year. We ate out less. We made food from scratch. We used local ingredients with some coming directly from our own landlords farm. We attempted to grow our own food. We have become accustom to the slow moving country life. And while health is still […]

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Product Review: Toy Bungee

About Toy Bungee A modern approach to keeping kids germ-free, the Toy Bungee is a non-toxic baby/toddler resistant strap designed to keep toys, bottles and sippy cups from falling to the floor. The unique button design prevents your little one from releasing objects from the strap, keeping the objects near, even when thrown or dropped! […]

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QuickZip Twin Sheets Review

During the Mompact Blog hop we won a set of QuickZip sheets. I’ve had my eye on these sheets for a while and was thrilled when I got the email saying I’d won a set of them. Sadly, the set I won was crib size and given that we have no cribs in the house, […]

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Puppies, Kids, and Snow Days

Snow: Atmospheric water vapor frozen into ice crystals and falling in light white flakes or lying on the ground as a white layer. Snow. What’s snow? That was a common joke I made when people from other places said it was snowing where they lived. We rarely saw snow unless we went to the mountains. It […]

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Grasshopper Pie

I wanted to use some of our milk that was expiring soon and looked in the pantry for some inspiration. I found most of these items and decided thought it would make a great pie. We picked up a pre-made oreo pie crust during our regular shopping trip the next afternoon.