Lina on December 17th, 2009

Its officially one week until the night when the stockings must be hung by the chimney with care.  I’d better get cracking and finish these up! There’s nothing like a good deadline to bring a project to completion.  Or at least that’s my hope.  :)

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Lina on December 1st, 2009

We got back from a wonderful whirlwind four day Thanksgiving holiday and the kids were understandably a little wound-up and crazy.  Amazing food, lots of family, lots of riding in the car and lost routine all add up.  And did I mention they were wound up?  Anyway, after 4 time-outs before 9am on Monday, we [...]

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Lina on November 10th, 2009

When David’s parents first got married, they worked and lived on a dairy farm in eastern Washington.  They were pretty much swimming in cream so they got a Dazey Churn to turn their share of cream into butter.  They haven’t had use for it for awhile, so they gave it to us!  Here’s what it [...]

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Lina on October 30th, 2009

I recently left my job and I was really wondering what it would mean on a day to day basis to not go into the office every day.  Thursday was the first time that I really realized that THIS (babies, farm, etc) is now my job and that THIS is what I do now.  And [...]

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Lina on October 27th, 2009

Dumplings! I had leftover apples from a pie I made last week and wanted to bake more so here’s the result.  Usually, I leave the yummy recipes to my talented cousin, but couldn’t resist this today (especially because I’m eating one of them for breakfast as I write – decadent!) It’s just pie dough (I [...]

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