So New Year’s Resolutions – everyone has an opinion. Some people love them, some people really don’t like them. I’ve always been a fan – whether I followed through on all of my resolutions or not, I love the idea of new beginnings, of setting goals, of challenging myself. I do deal with resolution incompletion … More Words on Wednesday – 12 in 12
Well, I’m back! We had a lovely Christmas/New Year. I loved how many gifts that our family exchanged this year were homemade. I’ll be posting about some of those gifts in the coming weeks. I’m highlighting a couple of recipes from recent weeks today. All the recipes were found via Pinterest. The first recipe was … More Tasty Tuesday – Savoury, Savoury, Sweet
Although it is not officially Winter yet, I am going ahead with our Winter Bucket List because there are quite a lot of Christmas activities on the list as well. We did nearly all the things on our Fall Bucket List & I really enjoyed having the list when we were looking for things to … More Winter Bucket List 2011/12
It’s been a few weeks since I posted any fashion on Friday. I’m actually really enjoying being a bit less strict with my blogging, not feeling like I have to post things just for the sake of it. It’s been good. I’m enjoying the variety of things that I have been blogging about too. It’s … More Fashion on Friday – Long Time
Because Thanksgiving & Christmas are only a month a part, our family decided to switch things up for our Thanksgiving meal so that we don’t have two overly similar meals at the two holidays. Each year we pick a different country & prepare our Thanksgiving meal with an international slant. We’ve been doing this for … More Tasty Tuesday – A British Thanksgiving
One of our traditions with my sister & Mom is to make a Christmas craft together over the Thanksgiving break. We will often pick a craft together & do the same thing, but this year we each chose to do our own thing. We actually all chose something we saw on Pinterest! What was life … More Make It Monday – Button Christmas Tree
Today is Thanksgiving in the United States. It’s also my sister’s birthday. While her birthday is not always on Thanksgiving, she was born on Thanksgiving Day on an army base not long before my Dad was sent to Vietnam. There are five years between us. When we were younger, we weren’t always best friends, in … More Thankful Thursday – Stephanie Edition
I guest posted earlier this week over at Mommyhood Memos about ways to archive our family moments & memories. You can go here to check it out. Adriel is an American living in Australia raising two gorgeous little boys with her Australian husband. They have been involved in missions work with Youth With a Mission for years. Check … More Words on Wednesday – Guest Post at Mommyhood Memos
I had a hankering for meat pie this week so I made a ground beef pot pie. I roughly followed this recipe. I didn’t use a packet gravy mix though, I made my own. I used ground beef instead of cubed & I used what vegetables I had on hand, corn, celery & carrots. It … More Tasty Tuesday – A Few Fall Favourites
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