From the monthly archives:

March 2010

Convection Heaven

March 30, 2010

I am always looking for quick recipes that really pack a flavor punch. Unless I plan way ahead (teehee) and marinate or slow cook, the food needs to have something sassy added to it so it will taste great. I have one recipe is already delish, but how did it fare in our new range?
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You’re Having Fun When

March 29, 2010

You know you’re having fun when…

Laundry sits clean but rumpled in a basket for days and pick from it to dress and no one cares.
Your floors are about to get organized and stage a rebellion if they’re not swept soon, and no one cares.
You come home from the store and leave the bags on the [...]

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On Aging And Contentment

March 24, 2010

This is me in all my glory. No makeup to cover the wrinkles or blotchy face or blemishes or dry lips or nonexistent eyebrows or drab and gray peppered roots. Nothing to make my eyes wake up any more, nothing to whiten my teeth, nothing to clean my hair, just me. Unedited. Gasp!
Aging but young, [...]

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The Worker Bee

March 23, 2010

You’ve heard me introduce the Hearth and yesterday I talked about the place where Food Is Fun, now let me introduce you to our new Worker Bee. The Frigidaire Professional Dishwasher. Our last dishwasher was so loud we could never start it during the day or even if anyone was still up at night. It [...]

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Beauty Is As Beauty Does

March 23, 2010

These women inspire me to draw a line in the sand, step over it into beauty, and never look back at the ugly.
Casey pulls on our perceptions, shows us how our culture is so very very VERY far from reality of what beauty is. Don’t miss her lovely display of photos of [...]

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Making Food Fun

March 22, 2010

We have a thing for food in this house. I am constantly seeing my kids gather in the kitchen, if not at our Hearth, or at the Worker Bee (the dishwasher) then at the Fridge (she needs a name!). It alternately tickles me and irritates me how often I will see the boys playing by [...]

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In The Wee Small Hours

March 19, 2010

{This photo is recent, but this post is from the archives. Originally posted March of 2009, this post was when I had full time work and seemingly never-ending hours. It was hard on us. Hard on me.
This weekend I’ll be gone for a work trip, but come back on Sunday knowing that life has [...]

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The Hearth

March 18, 2010

We find ourselves gathering there. At our “hearth”.
Our cornerstone.
The kitchen, and inside the kitchen the warm spot.
This new lovely Frigidaire family member, that saves me time so I can sit on the floor and frolic a bit.

This range that has a super boiler and a convection setting and a warming drawer. All to save me [...]

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Abundant Moments

March 16, 2010

Each moment of the year has its own beauty…a picture which was never seen before and shall never be seen again.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
It was our first “official” family outing since we’ve moved here to the South last November. Mama wasn’t sick or sad, we weren’t just heading to church or running to the park. [...]