cultivating me

me being me and making my way through life one day, one book, and one recipe at a time

a couple new tricks

I love to cook but don’t always think of myself as very talented in the kitchen. I am certainly not as talented nor knowledgeable as this woman or this one. I admire and visits their sites daily, always looking for new recipe and ideas. Let me tell you, they never disappoint! [...]

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Fri, June 13 2008 » from the kitchen, handy dandy ideas » No Comments

lights out!

Did you turn your lights out for Earth Hour yesterday? We did – only because my sweetie remembered at the last minute! The little guy was already in bed which left the older two kids wondering why their parents had suddenly gone crazy running around looking for candles and yelling “Lights out! TV [...]

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Sun, March 30 2008 » handy dandy ideas, parenting » 1 Comment

Thought for Food

My kids are 13 (almost 14!), 12 and 8. They all attend public school and this means that they spend more time outside of the house than they do in it – the hours they are awake anyway. Add this to the fact that they spend every other weekend at their dad’s along [...]

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Wed, March 19 2008 » handy dandy ideas, parenting » No Comments

fun in the sun, the SMART way

PLEASE NOTE:  Lara’s blog is not feeling well today.  Please visit An Ordinary Mom to link your SHS post and to check on all the other SMARTy pants in bloggityville :O) 
I learned yesterday that a good friend was recently diagnosed with skin cancer. I cannot at this point in time properly process that information [...]

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Sat, October 20 2007 » from the heart, handy dandy ideas, healthy me » 1 Comment

food for thought

Or, at the very least, food to think about. I was catching up on my reading through Google Reader (I heart google reader) and came across this post which really got me thinking. Ann has apparently been reading this book which is about one family’s journey to consume only locally grown foods for [...]

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Fri, October 19 2007 » handy dandy ideas » 1 Comment