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Celebrating National Pi Day!!

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Marie Callender's Dutch Apple Pie
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  Today, March 14th is National Pi Day No I didn’t misspell that.  I really am talking about Pi.  If you’re like me, you may have been too far removed from school to even remember what pi is.  Yes, I homeschool, and yes, my son has been exposed to pi…but for now I haven’t had to do much with explaining pi to him yet.  The math program he uses is

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I Can’t Homeschool Because: I Want My Kids to Play Sports

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I Can't Homeschool Because I Want My Kids to Play Sports
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I’ve been homeschooling for the past 11 years.  I remember when I first talked about homeschooling my children, my husband was a bit reluctant because he definitely wanted our kids to play sports if they wanted to.  Especially football!  He always regretted not playing football in high school, so he wanted his son to have that chance.   Many parents have the same concerns!  In fact, that is a very

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Green Giant Has a Surprise and I Share a Surprise “Talent”

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A Giant Surprise: Veggie Chips
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  I’m a snacker at heart.  I love nibbling on things here and there between meals.  I have 6 children who like to follow in my foot steps!  They absolutely love eating, but some of them don’t always love eating their vegetables.  I bet you can relate.  I have good news though: Green Giant has a Giant Surprise: New Veggie Chips. Let me tell you, these chips are delicious!  Snackers

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Create a Finger Painting Masterpiece for Kids

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13 Year Old's Creation
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Last week, I shared the Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies that we had at our local girls group.  Holly also planned a craft for the girls that day.   They were going to use painters tape to tape off a word or saying and then finger paint the rest of the page.  Once the paint was mostly dry, we pulled off their words (or shapes) and they had a beautiful

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“Stop Procrastinating” Challenge: Choose Joy!

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This Week, I Challenge You to:   Be Joyful!!   Stop Procrastinating Being Joyful With Your Family and Children!! You don’t need to wait until later to enjoy your family. DO IT NOW!   Where has your joy gone? Are you tired?  bored?  sick of the monotonous work?  Wishing you could be somewhere else? STOP. It’s time to embrace where we are and enjoy it while we’re here! It’s winter

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Red Velvet Gooey Butter Cookies

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My friend Holly is what I call a Foodie.  She doesn’t have a blog, so sometimes, I happen upon some of her cooking awesomeness and she lets me share it here with you. Last week, we went to our girls group called Bright Lights (a group where we talk about being Godly young ladies, do a craft and eat a snack), and she was the host.  Each month, we take

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Starting Shaklee New Diet Program

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Excited. Nervous. Afraid. That would explain the emotions that I had when I found out about the new diet that I committed to doing. I’m in the #Shaklee 180 Blogger Program! I will be starting this new diet the first week of March. I’m a girl who would love it if I could only lose weight by exercising.  Of course, I’d have to actually find the time to exercise.  Yeah.

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10 Goals I Can Accomplish in 15 Minutes

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For more in my Stop Procrastinating series, check out my post on Homemakers Challenge, called 5 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Start Doing!       Today I talk about goals.  Specifically, those goals that I can get done in 15 minute increments. Why 15 minutes? Because I’m busy and have a lot on my plate.   I get distracted really easily.   I have 6 kids.   They need

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Coconut Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars – Secret Recipe

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Shhh,....Secret Recipe
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Do you have any of those “secret recipes”? In all honesty, I didn’t even know about this recipe until I was married for nearly 17 years. I’m not sure what jarred my husband’s memory, but suddenly he wanted “some of those coconut chocolate chip bars”. I had no clue what he was talking about, thus the secret. He called his mom and got the recipe and we, of course, enjoyed

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5 Things I Procrastinate Cleaning in the Kitchen

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5 Things I Procrastinate Cleaning in the Kitchen
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5 Things I Procrastinate Cleaning in the Kitchen (and how I’m going to take control of them!) The kitchen is the room of the house that always has something going on in it.  In mine, there’s constantly someone wanting food or drink throughout the day.  In my family, if someone’s not hungry between meal times, it’s a miracle! With all that action going on in the kitchen, it’s easy to delay cleaning

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10 Grocery Items I Buy in Bulk Without Coupons

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Being the mother of 6 children, I have had to implement tactics here and there to help me feed all these kids on a budget!  One of these tactics is to buy things in bulk whenever I can. 4 Ways to Stock Up I stock up on the weekly loss leaders in the grocery store ads.  This works best when I happen to be in the city where there are

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6 Meals, One Prep Time – Crockpot Freezer Meals

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6 Meals,     This menu is no longer available on my site, however, you can still receive it complete with Recipes Shopping List Assembly Instructions Photos of Each Dish by subscribing to my site!  It will be included as a free download to all subscribers!!  If you are a new subscriber, you will not receive it until the next time I update my blog, most of the time it

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    This makes my life so much easier. I'm a busy work at home/stay at home mom, wife, business woman and I feel like dinner is always the thing I just never get time to do. We have done like 15 of the crockpot recipes from Sarah and they are all very yummy. They get a thumbs up from my husband and kids every time. And there is always enough for my husband to take the left overs at least 2x per recipe. I have a family of 5, 2 adults, 21, 13, 16. So it makes plenty. Thank you Sarah.

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    I am a 59-year-old wife and mother of two grown children.  I love your idea of fixing a lot of meals ahead of time and then pulling one out, put it in the crockpot, and you have dinner when you get home.  I hate feeling rushed when I cook so Monday - Friday I use those crockpot meals and make enough that we have lunch the next day.  I take Sunday afternoon, fix up what I need for the week (I don't have a lot of freezer space so I do a week's worth at a time) and I'm done with it!  Saturdays I like to try new recipes from some of my cookbooks which I am finding I can freeze as well!  So you have shown me a whole new way to organize my time and still put a healthy meal on the table.  Thanks so much and I look forward to future blogs.

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