Want to trick your whole family into eating a huge plate of vegetables for dinner? I do it every week and my family cannot get enough of my Spaghetti Squash recipe. I feel wonderful serving it to them because it’s about as healthy as it can get and they have fun eating it because it
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Happy Birthday to me!! 26 today, woo hoo! Now I am most definitely going to try and sneak off to take a nap, geez I look like I need a nap! My birthday wish? Give me a fantastic list of book titles that I can read next. This was the last book I finished and
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You know your girls are fans of Jamie Lee Curtis’ books when you read them almost every day. You really know your girls are fans of Jamie Lee Curtis’ books when they climb a very tall bookshelf during nap time so they can grab one to read. You really, really know your daughter absolutely loves
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For Christmas I purchased “Gratitude Journals” for my family and thought once a week or so we could take some time to write in them. I soon realized it needed to be done on a daily basis rather than weekly. With how busy we are, how stressful some of our days can be and how
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Having a monthly art group has been the highlight of my daughter’s month. She loves to help me pick the activity, gather the materials, remind her friends and have her front yard be “the place” for art group. I have had a few requests to put all my tips and links to past art projects
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The winner of this giveaway is….Linda who said, “I am having a stressful week. I would have taken a bite out of the sugar cookies if I could. Or maybe that Pecan Log or even the cheesecake. I don’t know where to begin. I want it all.” Fahrenheit 350° the temperature at which sweets happen
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INSIGHTFUL NANA SHOPPING SPREE My grandkids and I love to go shopping. Our favorite place is the “dollar store” and we have a shopping ritual we all love. The number of grands participating vary… some times there is only two and some times there are seven or eight. The kids range from 3 to 12
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Jacks – Grandma’s favorite Recess Game My absolute favorite game to play at recess when I was in elementary school was JACKS and the above picture is my jacks, bag and ball from when I was a little girl! I lived in Tempe, Arizona and attended Hudson Elementary. During recess you would see groups
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“I’m just a photographer working on my craft every day in some small way. I want to share with you what I saw at that moment in time” To my grandchildren I’m ”Grammie with the camera”. It’s part of my identity. There have been very few times in their lives they’re seen me without a camera in
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Think happy thoughts and you will fly. Peter Pan was right. I currently have 16 happy thoughts that never fail to help me to fly over the doldrums the ho-hum, the not so fun part of growing up or in my case of growing older. Grandchildren are my happy thoughts. They can lift me into
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