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Dairy Free Apple Crisp
Despite the fact the mercury is reading 85 degrees tonight as I write this, I am thinking Fall. To help force my most-loved season along, the girls and I decided to pick our first-ever crop of apples...
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Basil Lime Gimlet
Date nights do not often happen these days. Crazy schedules, shifting demands of the workplace and caring for two young children make it difficult for this mom and dad to have a few spare moments...
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Cooking Sauce with Daddy
While I was enjoying myself at a baby shower in the beautiful Anderson Japanese Gardens, my girls were home making pasta sauce with Daddy. My husband gets huge bonus points for this because not only...
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A Walk in the Woods
There has been a sickness streak in our house over the course of the last week, so when Sunday greeted us with beams of sunlight peaking through the curtains, crisp air squeezing through the window...
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Anew
There are those times when each of us needs a breathe of new life. When the grind of our day to day tasks feel a bit too heavy to bear, and we need an opportunity for fresh air to fill the fibers...
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The Real Deal
While at “the fair” last weekend, I was lucky enough to watch a hands-on soap making demonstration conducted by Mary Jane Toth, author of Goats Produce Too. Ms. Toth was a wonder to watch, for she...
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Grandma’s Three Bean Salad
Isn’t it just fascinating how food memories work? One morsel of food touches your tongue and you are whisked away to times gone by, to the exact moment when you consumed that particular piece of...
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Dash to the Finish
Every year it happens. The mad dash to get anything and everything in the garden harvested and indoors before temperatures dip below freezing for the first time of the year. That day came on Monday,...
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At This Moment
At this moment, I am… ~recalling a fabulous weekend of crafting and fun. ~returning from a very early trip to the grocery store for our first round of Thanksgiving dinner shopping. A five o’clock (in...
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Celebrating
As I so often say in this space, Thanksgiving through the New Year is my favorite time of the year. I love the decedent foods that warm your soul, the many adornments that work to embellish even the...
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At This Moment
At this moment, I am… ~preparing my eldest’s Girl Scout Daisy smock. Today is her first Daisy meeting, and I am just praying her little cough from last night is better this morning so she is able to...
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Nona’s Biscotti
Nona Zanocco’s Biscotti has become a staple around our house each Christmas. This buttery crisp cookie is perfect for a morning coffee with friends around the holidays, and also a wonderful...
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Our Holiday
I hope this past holiday season found you all well, and in a state of food, fun and family bliss. Happily, all our family members remained healthy for the duration of our holiday break, enabling us to...
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Christmas Morning Monkey Bread
Beginning in December 2006, our first Christmas with children, we started a Christmas morning tradition in our household. Each Christmas morning, after all of the gifts have been unwrapped, we...
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Some Garden Bling
We, like most in the country right now, are experiencing a major cold snap right now. At times like this, it is so hard to imagine that there was a time when our gardens were in bloom, with produce...
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Baby Love
We have a few friends who had babies born near the end of the year, so of course those new little ones needed a little bit of homemade baby love from the Fagan abode. I found a sleep sack pattern I...
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At This Moment
At this moment I am… ~continuing to stitch away at some new dish wash cloths. ~very thankful I got caught up on all things school yesterday. I feel that I can take a big breath and a sigh of relief....
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Vegan Soap Recipe
Friends, I am so very excited to share with you my vegan soap recipe today! It is a recipe I have been experimenting with for several months now, and at this point I am very happy with the way the...
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Finding My People
As I’ve grown older, I have come to learn that putting on airs and trying to be someone I am not to fit in, is just not worth my time. While I have always thought of myself as an independent person,...
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Patience
Things have been tough lately, friends. As you may have noticed from my lack of presence in this space, I have been finding it hard to articulate exactly what it is I have been feeling. And because I...
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