Basketball season for Hunter and his teammates ended two weeks ago in overtime to a top seeded team. That team ended up losing the next night and not going to the state tournament. Last weekend, Hunter watched a team win a state championship that beat three undefeated teams in the state tournament. His dreams are big. He plots, plans and…
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Filed Under: Proteins, Recipes Tagged With: bacon, cooking, hunk of meat Monday, meat, protein 4 Comments
On week nights if we aren’t pulling out a meal from the freezer from one of my many “make ahead meals“, we are eating supper from the Crock-Pot…actually ours is Betty Crocker brand and it’s a “slow cooker” I suppose. Our meals are not fancy. They feed hungry people. But last week as I dumped a meal together my husband declared…
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Baking Blueberry Flax Muffins
Filed Under: Dessert, Family Values, Recipes Tagged With: baking, cooking with kids 4 Comments
Making healthy muffins for snacks and quick breakfasts is easy to do. But I prefer the recipes with a lot of butter and eggs. I’ve been experimenting with ground flaxseed recently in baking. Yesterday we had success with a modified low fat blueberry wheat bran muffin recipe. My kids won’t eat a bran muffin. But they will eat Blueberry Flax…
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How to make a diaper cake for a baby shower
Filed Under: Misc. Tagged With: baby, baby shower ideas 4 Comments
You asked and so I will tell you how we made the diaper cake for the shower a few of my friends and I threw for another friend and her new baby boy. The creative and crafty all the way to the uncrafty folks like myself can pull this project off with class and glamour, as glamourous as a tower…
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Splendid snow day
Filed Under: Life in North Dakota Tagged With: family fun, North Dakota, North Dakota weather, prairie, prairie life, rural life 8 Comments
The snow arrived on the prairie. It missed other parts of North Dakota but found us. So much snow (and wind earlier this morning) arrived that our rural school was called off, a very rare occurrence. For this fine Leap Day, the girls took a leap into the freshly found snow drifts. Fresh snow tastes great… so do mittens. Sledding…
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