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I am all for convenience. I love convenience. Convenience loves me. We have a friendship, a bond. It's sort of inseparable. Well, it used to be. I am having issues with ingredients and prices of "convenience". Therefore, I have taken a pledge this year to do less convenience and more prepa

Fly your flag today. It is Veteran's Day Define a Veteran: Whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve - is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount up to and including their life. That is HONOR, and the

Yesterday was Sweet's 13th birthday. She enjoyed the day watching her brothers do her chores and eating the good food Dill made for her including waffles, sausage, corn bread and birthday cake! He is a good big brother. Running low on cash we couldn't afford a big present, so she received a few s

Saw this on Pinterest and had to share. As we grow up, we learn that the people that weren't supposed to ever let us down, probably will.  You'll have your heart broken and you'll break others hearts.  You'll blame a new love for things an old love did.  You'll fight with your best friend, you'll

There are 4 questions. Don't miss any of them! 1. How do you put a giraffe into a refrigerator? Stop and think about it and decide on your answer before you scroll down. ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ The correct answer is: Open the refrigerator, put in the giraffe, and close the door. This question tests wh

Deliver papers Get Cool up by 5 so he can do some fund transfer for work Return from papers, fix breakfast, pack Cools lunch, kiss him goodbye Sign and address get well cards for my uncle and Miss Crisp's mom Finish laundry by 1 Clean kitchen this morning only to mess it up again with lunch and re-c

This year I am trying to incorporate puzzles into our school routine. Puzzles not only give the picklets a little down time, it helps with their spacial skills, cognitive skills, analytical skills, problem solving skills and reasoning skills. And even more than that, puzzles help with imagination, p

By nature I am an unorganized person.  But lately I have been in an organizing mode. This is not by choice mind you. The picklebarrel is in need of a major overhaul so I am forced. The first of my projects was our school closet. It was to the point that we would open the door and pray that nothing w