photo cred: unsplash.com Tonight my family and I went to a fall festival at a local family friendly fast food restaurant. We found out about the event as many others likely did, through an email update. We were, in fact, sold as soon as we read the words: “free pony rides.” The kids’ costumes, the balloon-twisting pirate, the inflatable bounce…
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30 Minute Fried Rice
Some months are busier than others, and this has been a busy month. A traveling husband, a busy season on the blog, chores that know no end, and three blessings who always keep me on my toes no matter what the day of the week it is. (What’s this you call a weekend? Time off, what?). At the beginning of…
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Perfect Baked Brown Rice
Healthy options are great. …when they taste good. …and when you know how to make them. Brown rice can be one of those irritating I-know-I-should-eat-it-but… foods where you’ve tried it but it was either too gummy or too crunchy or took too long or too just not very good. If you’re in the camp where you’ve written off brown rice…
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Travel Jewelry Roll
This post is a part of 31 Days to a Handmade Christmas & is teaming up with Taking Route for a fun giveaway! Traveling can be stressful. Actually, anytime I try to leave the house with my three children and arrive at our destination in a somewhat punctual fashion can be stressful. Throw in taking things along with us, and…
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Dark Chocolate Super Grain Bars
I am not above gathering my children’s lunch in the form of snacks purchased progressively from store after store when we are out and about running our errands before naptime. On these days, my children enjoy a progressive lunch of a piece of fresh fruit selected from one store, some variety of nutty trail mix purchased from another, and then…
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Felt Lego Tote
This post is a part of the 31 Days to a Handmade Christmas series. Legos are expensive! While I do think that they are awesome and very often worth the investment, it’s not always practical or possible to buy new Lego sets as gifts all the time. So may I suggest something else for the Lego fans in your life?…
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