I’d always been turned off by those French Toast recipes that had to sit overnight, and so when I discovered this recipe, that was an overnight recipe but worked sitting in the French Toast mixture for only three hours I was sold. It’s delicious and doesn’t require quite as much forethought. You can make it at 6am and be eating…
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This past week was a great one for us… the court hearing for the twins’ birth parents was scheduled to start on Monday but the twins’ parents came to an agreement with the state that they would willingly release their rights for the twins, and their older siblings, in exchange for no trial and three visits a year with the…
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This past weekend was so good for my soul. Our family got away to The Colonnade in Boston’s Back Bay. It’s only about forty minutes from our home but it’s about as different as can be. I’ve traveled all over the United States and some of Europe and Boston still remains my favorite city. It’s unique in it’s history and…
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In October AJ and I were hired to do a budget redo of a condo out of state owners wanted to put on the market. I had $17,000 to redo the house well enough to sell at a profit. Our main job was to paint the walls, renovate the bath and kitchen and refinish the floors… I’ve included a few…
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We were predicted to get upwards of 15 inches of snow on Thursday so everyone had school cancelled, the kids stayed up later than usual and watched Little Rascals (for the second time this week) and we had blueberry pancakes this morning. I got up that morning, worked out, showered and then changed directly back into my favorite PJs. These…
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A couple of years ago people were choosing just one word to define what they wanted their year to look like. For a few months I’ve been thinking about how I wanted 2018 to be and keep coming back to a word that has partially defined 2017. COMPACT. It seems like a weird word to define a year, right? Compact…
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