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Recipe: 5-Ingredient Pumpkin Soup
“Oh yuck. I hate pumpkin.” Did you really just say that? My friend, my friend — pumpkin is your buddy. The canned stuff is cheap, and the ingredients list is short. Here, I’ll read you the list off of a … Continue reading
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Tagged 5-ingredient, easy, pumpkin, recipe, soup
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The Simple Life: Eating Together
One of the things you learn, when you set out to live the simple life, is this: It’s really simpler than you think. You don’t need to join an Encouragement Group, or fill out a series of charts, or buy … Continue reading
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Tagged eating together, family, living, simple
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Homeschool Super Moms
One week after the birth of our first child found us camping with the Creature Who Needs No Sleep. Driven from our hot, stuffy apartment (no air conditioning) we relished the cool, mountain air, not to mention the lack of … Continue reading
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Tagged being overwhelmed, homeschooling, parent teacher, pressure, supermom
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Stop Attacking Yourself
Today’s article comes with a visual, two actually, as an encouragement to you to stop being so hard on yourself. We need to be reminded of this on a frequent basis, not only because so many people are prepared to … Continue reading
Posted in acceptance, Art, children, Christian, Culture, Current Events, Daily Life, Education, Encouragement, Faith, Family, grandparenting, holiday, home, inspirational, Life, Lifestyle, News, Parenting, Personal, Random, Relationships, religion, santa, self-improvement, spirituality, success, Uncategorized
Tagged children, Christian, encouragement, traveler, world
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Recipe: Easy Roasted Vegetables
As a writer who also runs the Norwegian Artist’s fine art gallery, I don’t have a lot of time to cook. Despite spending most of the day 15 feet from the kitchen, I generally arrive there around 5, in a state … Continue reading
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Tagged carrots, cook, potato, recipe, vegan, vegetables
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The Simple Life: Eating out by Eating in
This last week, the Norwegian Artist and I celebrated 31 years of marriage with a special dinner for four. What should have cost $170 ran a little under $25. Do I have access to a coupon code that you don’t? … Continue reading
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Tagged anniversary, eating out, marriage, restaurant, save money
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Homeschoolers: Are You Failing Your Children?
Whether you homeschool or not, when you have multiple children, it is all too easy to fall into comparing the “strengths” and “weaknesses” of one child against another. Sadly, over the years, we have seen one child within a family … Continue reading
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Tagged children, discipline, homeschooling, rebellious, religious
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Recipe: Good Food
Don’t ask me how food imitation products made it into my breadbox and refrigerator. With various progeny wandering in and out over the month, assorted highly artificialized items sneaked in, many of which I wasn’t even aware until the Norwegian … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial, bread, food, recipe, resolution
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Recipe: Risotto Resztki (Leftovers)
Risotto is an Italian rice dish, but I’m an American of proud Polish background. What I create will no doubt cause a true Italian, and probably a Pole from the Old Country, to cringe, but oh well. If I stuck … Continue reading
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Tagged Polish, recipe, rice, risotto
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Hiking the Himalayas without Leaving My Chair
From Start Your Week with Steve, the free weekly e-mail newsletter of Steve Henderson Fine Art Steve Says: As my wife, Carolyn, will readily attest, I rarely give in to a cold. I prefer to work my way through it, but … Continue reading
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Tagged DVD, Himalaya, Michael Palin, travel
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