Dealing with Emotional Eating…Once Again

Happy April! Photo credit cakebirthday.bloguez.com April is our busiest birthday month with three birthdays! The parties begin this weekend and will continue for the next couple of weekends.  I love celebrating the lives of our children.  Yet, as a mom, I struggle greatly with the constant influx of sugar that cycles throughout the year. If [...]

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Friday Wrap-Up: Ephy's Birthday & Prioritized Living

As the third day of fall greets me today, I am thrilled at the milder temperatures that are here.  As of yesterday, we were still experiencing 90 degree weather, but the weekend holds temps in the 60′s….whoo-hoo! It has been a very busy week, but ‘good’ busy.  That means that my days were busy with [...]

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Hot Deal: My Free Play-Doh Playset and Playdoh

  I was at Walmart today with a fistful of coupons, packing to save about $20 with my high-value coupons.   I had two $5 Kraft coupons alone. One of them was for free Playdoh with the purchase of a Playdoh Playset.  With Ephy’s birthday coming, I was looking for a fun gift for him to play with.  [...]

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Grateful for the Weekend

The last two weeks have been so busy with lots of wonderful things, but I must say that I’m ready to get back on schedule a bit.  It won’t be long before the boy’s football games start and then Ephy’s birthday is next month.  You may remember Mer’s birthday party last weekend, I just thought [...]

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Meredith's 9th Birthday and the Schizophrenic Cake

  Meredith is my baby girl and she’s turning 9 this week.  She is by far the sweetest little girl I’ve ever known.  Her heart is as big an Kansas!  She loves Jesus with all her heart and just wants everyone in the world to be happy.  When her birthday comes around, I just want [...]

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How to Start a Cake-Decorating Business….that you may or may not want!

Growing up, I didn’t learn how to cook.  I couldn’t boil an egg or make a box of macaroni & cheese if my life depended on it.  It wasn’t until I married my husband that I became convicted about my need to learn how to cook. At age 31, I cracked my first cookbook.  A [...]

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Birthday Intervention

 This weekend, we celebrated the Tribe leader’s birthday, aka Dad. My husband isn’t the easiest person to shop for, neither am I for that matter.  We both tend to use things until they just about die, but sometimes a line has to be drawn.  My man has a small collection of t-shirts that are far [...]

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Triple Birthday Party!

After a great deal of thought about how to handle three birthdays this month, not to mention Easter, Mark and I decided to take all the kids to Bounce U for a family party. But before the party tonight, there was plenty to get done today. One of those things was to make 10-dozen chocolate [...]

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Friday Wrap-Up: Laughter, Easter Eggs and Making A Birthday Cake

I am always in the market for a good, clean laugh! It releases stress and strengthens my immune system, so when Hailey sent Isaac an e-card for his birthday with Hoops&Yoyo, I knew that I had to get on YouTube and look for more! I haven’t laughed this hard in a while and they get [...]

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Ephy's 3rd Birthday

Friday was Ephy’s third birthday and it was quite a day. In Ethiopia, the conditions are so harsh that birthdays are not celebrated. This was a completely new concept for our newbies. They have watched with wonder as we celebrated Merdith’s birthday last month. I can only imagine what went through their little minds as [...]

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