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Cooking with Cast Iron-How to Make the Perfect French Toast!

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The Best French Toast

Since my cast iron cooking tips were so popular in the past, I am back with more today! (In case you missed the others click HERE for the perfect Grilled Cheese, and HERE to learn how to clean and season your cast iron skillets.)  Cooking with cast iron is especially good for breakfast foods and breads.  In fact, cast iron skillets make the best French Toast ever!  No joke 🙂  So today I am going to share my personal recipe for the best french toast ever (not just in my opinion, but according to the rave reviews from the fiance Matt and all of my family that has tried it as well) and all of the little tips I have picked up along the way.   2 reasons why I love making … Continue Reading →

How I Shop Green on a Budget and Get Freebies-Plus a Giveaway

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Shop Green on a Budget

  Today my friend Kendra has asked me to write a guest post over on her site on how her and I shop Green on a budget and get Free green products.  We basically shop with a healthy “Green” wholesale store (much like a Sam’s Club or Costco) and that is actually how Kendra ( who blogs over at A Proverbs 31 Wife) and I know each other outside of blogging!  Most of the helpful info I am sharing today will be over at her site, but here are a few quick perks that we and our families get every month when we shop (I am also doing a giveaway of free stuff for you guys, so keep reading for more on that) :   Wholesale prices of up to 40% off … Continue Reading →

Five Minute Friday Poem-And So I Begin Again…

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Lily of the valley

It’s Five Minute Friday and Today’s Word is “AGAIN“.  Here I go (free verse poetry style)  Go   And So I Begin Again…  (First stanza) Sometimes in life everything crashes down around you Like a once solid structure built up from the ground Having seen better days and having much wear That comes crumbling down brick by brick or board by board. But things can be rebuilt. As it is with life, we go through these periods of undoing or breaking down. It is in those moments that we are making way for something new to be reborn. Like the phoenix rising out of the ashes, Everything has its time. Things run their course. When we get to that “turning to ashes” point, We may lie there in the rubble … Continue Reading →

The Cat That Wanted To Party- A True (Funny) Story

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Funny Cat

Did you all have a good weekend?  I had a rather sleepless one myself.  Aside from the fact that I have been struggling with insomnia worse again lately (Gah!), I was forced to deal with the Cat that wouldn’t sleep , but instead wanted to “Party”.  Let me explain it to you Dr. Seuss style…   Around 3:30 am on a Saturday Morn I laid there (not sleeping) much to my scorn My head was a pounding, a sinus headache The wind was a whistling, a loud sound it did make! I tried to get comfy, but my head said “No way!” So I got up for some Tylenol, to keep pain at bay. I hunkered back in , it was about Four But I was finally warm and sleepy-ready … Continue Reading →

The Art of Being Cherished- Five Minute Poetry

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It’s Five Minute Friday and today’s word is CHERISHED.  I am going to try to write for 5 minutes poetry style again and then go visit the person who wrote before me (as the rules go 🙂 )  I am having to clear my head here because when I heard the word for today you know what pops in my head?  Bum..bum! Bum bum..Cherish is the word I use to describe …do do do do do do do …  Some oldies song that I happen to know all the words to but can’t remember who wrote it.  Anyways, here goes…   Go The Art of Being Cherished You are cherished, you are loved. Whether you realize it or not, You are. Sometimes we feel less than – Broken, used up … Continue Reading →

Cat Colony Christmas Photos (Their First Christmas)

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One last set of photos to share from Christmas for (mostly) Wordless Wednesday.  If you have been keeping up with my blog, then by now you know about my efforts to help a Feral and Stray Cat Colony issue in my neighborhood.  All of the photos today are of colony cats.  Some of them are the outside ones we help, and some of them are indoor ones that have now been adopted.  This was their first Christmas! 🙂 We wanted to bring a little joy to their lives.  If you would like to read more about the colony cats I care for and their stories, you can click HERE to be taken to the archives, or just look for the Cat Colony tab on my website.  Looking out for the … Continue Reading →

A Delinquent Doughnut Day-Five Minute Friday “Dive”

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Five Minute Friday’s are back!  I have had a doozy of a day and am in silly mood at this point so I am not sure how this five minute Friday will go today!  It could end up good, or it could end up really stupid and cheesy.  I typically write poetry style, but am not as poetic today, so I may deviate a little.  Anyways, same rules as always.  You write for 5 minutes only…you can’t over think or back track.  And you must visit the person who went before you.  Today’s word is DIVE, so I am going to er..dive in here and see what we come up with.   Go   It’s a new year Doesn’t that make you want to just dive right in ? Dive … Continue Reading →

Tip of the Week- Re-purposing/ Recycling Christmas Cards

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For this week’s tip, I thought I would talk about what on earth to do with all of those Christmas cards you received over the holidays.  Don’t throw them out!  You can recycle & re-purpose them like I do and save some money in the process.  In an earlier post I talked about how framing beautiful ( I like to use vintage looking ones personally) cards makes an inexpensive and nice gift.  If you haven’t seen that post and want to know how I do that on a budget, you can click HERE.  So that is one thing you could do with any particular cards you received that are especially pretty.  Either frame them for some inexpensive holiday decor for yourself next year, or frame several of them for gifts … Continue Reading →

Walter the Christmas Curmudgeon & Other Stocking Pranks

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Happy New Year everyone!! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas.  I am back from a week long (or so) holiday break to share some funny Christmas photos with you for Wordless Wednesday (a little story to go along with the photos will follow, in case you don’t know who the subject of today’s humor is!)   Oh No- It’s Walter (aka the Christmas Curmudgeon…or you can call him just plain curmudgeon, cause trust me it is not just a seasonal problem!!!)     Who is this cranky little man and more importantly whose stocking was he forced to spend Christmas in??!!   A little back story here.  I have this little thing going on where I like to put at least one little prank gift or smile producing … Continue Reading →

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