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30 Minutes with the Seavers

Whenever I’m feeling like the house is a mess and I’m in a crunch to get things done, I think of my favorite episode of “Growing Pains” (yes, “Growing Pains”. Hear me out.) It’s the one where they are throwing a fancy party (which Donald Trump is going to be at), and realize that the [...]

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A SubURBAN Christmas

I am ridiculously suburban. I love our quiet street, the sound of lawnmowers in the summer, the delightful squeals of laughter coming from neighborhood children playing in their backyards, and the fact that I am 2 minutes from a CUB Foods and a Scrapbooking store. Oh yes, and I drive an SUV.
On the contrary, I [...]

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A Christmas Message

Thanks to my friend Kim for passing this forward along my way:
 I CORINTHIANS 13 – A CHRISTMAS VERSION
If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands of twinkling lights and shiny balls, but do not show love to my family, I’m just another decorator.  If I slave away in the kitchen, baking dozens of [...]

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My New Mom-Eyes

Today I’m feeling a little more like a “Martha” then a “Mary”. No no no, not Martha Stewart (although it’s perhaps no coincidence that those two share a name) — Martha of the Bible. Martha who was so worried about keeping up with the tasks of the house that she forgot the importance of just [...]

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A Burp and A Giggle

Yesterday afternoon after Will finished nursing, I sat him up on my knee so we could have a little “chat”. Suddenly he let out a giant BURRRRP. Immediately his big blue eyes looked up into mine, he grinned big, and he let out an amused “ha!”.
It was very cute and probably one of my [...]

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A Seinfeldian Moment

Why is it that when we sign an email or close a transaction at the store, we so often tell the person we are communicating with to “Have a nice day”, “Have a good weekend” or “Have a great week”? Why do we pick such seemingly arbitrary segments of time to wish them well for?
For [...]

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Dreams of Gingerbread Dance Through My Head

For the past few days, I have been waiting for my chance to make gingerbread cookies. I’ve been meaning to begin the task of baking Christmas cookies for awhile now (my goal is to surpass last year’s record of a whopping 2 batches or so, neither of which was very good), and decided to kick [...]

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Choup Recipe

It’s been requested that I post the choup recipe, so here it is! I doubled it & got a good 10 good sized servings out of it. So we still have 4 more choup meals in the freezer!
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Rachael Ray’s Creamy Harvest Corn Choup
Ingredients:
-2 TB Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO)
-4 slices bacon, chopped
-1 onion, chopped
-1/2 red [...]

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Merry Christmas from the Wallace Family To You

Here’s Our Early Christmas Greeting.

(thanks to my sister Katie for assembling it ).

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