Friday’s Feast

Here is today’s Friday’s Feast.
Appetizer
What is your favorite carnival/amusement park ride? 
Roller coasters!  I love them all, especially ones that go upside down!!
Soup
How do you react in uncomfortable social situations?
I usually try to keep quiet and watch and listen to other people when things become uncomfortable.  If it is extremely uncomfortable, I will leave the situation.
Salad
On [...]

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Friday Fill-In

Here is today’s Friday Fill-In.
1. When my blog is broken, I (if mine were broken, I would) check other people’s blogs and catch up on reading in my feed reader.
2. I saw the most amazing scrambled eggs this morning!  I was really, really hungry and my husband cooked them for me without me asking him to [...]

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Menu Plan Monday

This is a busy week for me with meetings on 3 different nights.  I am trying to cook things that can be prepared ahead of time or take very little prep work.  I never made the soups from last week’s menu so I plan to make those this week. 
Monday:  7 Layer Casserole
Tuesday:  Sweet Potato and Apple Soup, [...]

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Christmas Giveaways

You will notice on my sidebar there are lots of new buttons for Christmas Giveaways.  Be sure to check all of these outs.  At the various sites:  5 Minutes for Mom, 2007 Pinks and Blues Holiday Gift Guide, MamaSpeaks, Mamanista, OhAmanda’s Oh! Ho! Ho!, and Mommy Cracked’s Christsmas in Dixie.  Enjoy the holidays over the next [...]

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Thankful for the Low Stress Thanksgiving

This year Mr. Right and I had his mother, sister, and her family to our house for Thanksgiving.  We got up around 5:00 to start the ham and turkey.  There was a loud thunder storm which woke the children up at 5:30 so we could not go back to sleep.  Mr. Right and I cooked, cleaned, [...]

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Seeing Santa Part 2

 Yesterday, I blogged about my experiences sitting on Santa’s lap.  Today, I want to elaborate more about what it was like for BusyBoy and GigglyGirl to see Santa this year.  In the morning before our 6 PM appointment to see Santa, the children and I sat at the computer to create their Christmas Wish List.  [...]

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Seeing Santa

 

Throughout my life there has been a particular Santa at a particular mall that we go to every year.  We went to see the Santa at this mall every year when I was a child.  In fact the Santa from this mall was at a different mall and we followed him from mall to mall.
There [...]

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Thursday Thirteen – 13 Things for Which I am Thankful

  Happy Thanksgiving!
This Thanksgiving there is a lot for which I am thankful.

First and foremost I am thankful for Mr. Right and our strong marriage.  This year has been a challenging year for us.  We faced job loss, the closing of Mr. Right’s company, which resulted in a mountain of debt from under which we [...]

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Turkey Leftovers

BusyBoy, GigglyGirl, and I were watching the Food Network yesterday and saw these Turkey and Bean Empanadas.  So, we are going to make these on Friday with leftover turkey from Thanksgiving.  We may also make Turkey Shepherd’s Pie depending on how much turkey we have leftover.
This works for us.  What works for you?  What ideas [...]

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Boy Crazy at 4

Saturday BusyBoy, GigglyGirl, and I were watching a Thanksgiving special on the Food Network.  The celebrity Robert Irvine suprised a lady and helped her cook a Mock Thanksgiving Dinner to serve to 21 volunteer firefighters.  After watching these 2 cook for a couple of minutes, GigglyGirl said, “Mommy, that lady is very beautiful and that man [...]

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