January 2012

Post image for real food deconstructed, part 1: it doesn’t have to be as hard as i made it

Toona Salad. Rawvioli. And something even more traumatic: Celebration Nutloaf. I am writing this post to save you (and especially your children and husband), from  going down that road.  Eating real food doesn’t have to be like that. Actually, eating real food is so very much more simple than I wanted to make it.  For [...]

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Post image for Five Things For Friday: Freebies Edition

I am participating in Women in the Scriptures Five Things For Friday blog hop! -1- Blogging Freebies I like to design websites.  I have been doing it for about 15 years, and I have always done it for fun.  I really like creating spaces on the internet that are pretty and easy to navigate. It’s [...]

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Post image for wordfull wednesday: small things with great love, or a day at the ranch

I know all five people who read this blog have been waiting breathlessly to find out what a typical day is like at our house.  Well, hold your breath no more–here it is! My day starts at about 2 am when I hear one of our children not sleeping.  It isn’t always necessarily our youngest, [...]

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Post image for we’re having a…watch to find out!

Approximately twenty-two days after the two cells have united, a little heart begins to beat. At twenty-six days the circulation of blood begins.  Scripture declares that the “life of the flesh is in the blood.”  –Elder (and Dr.) Russell M. Neslon, “Reverence For Life“ Let them sleep, for when they wake, they will move mountains. [...]

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Post image for five things for friday: extremely random edition

I am participating in Women in The Scriptures Five Things For Friday Blog Hop! -1- I have been trying to lose weight because, it’s “in” and trendy.  Also, because I am overweight and want to ride a horse without hurting it.  So, I started to really turn things around in September.  I am sharing this [...]

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Post image for farm life…living the dream

Ever since I can remember, I have always thought of how much fun it would be to move out to the country and have some animals and quit being a full-time consumer and be self-sustainable and self-reliant and self-preserved and all that stuff, and I have worked very hard for the last few years to [...]

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Post image for Wordfull Wednesday: Meet My Literary Likenesses

Thanks, Chocolate for inspiring this post! It’s so fun to find out the difference between the literary character you feel most like as compared to what your family feels that you are like.  For example, here are the characters I have always fancied that I am most like: 1. Miss Melanie from Gone With The [...]

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