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Enough with the Whine – Bring on the Wine! Week 3

January 29, 2011 3 Comments

I’m so impressed with Rhea’s post this week! She picked out what looks like an amazing bottle of red from Cupcake Vinyards. She keeps talking like she doesn’t know anything about wine but I don’t believe her. Nope. I think our miss Rhea is much more educated on wine than she lets on. She was [...]

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How to Attract Local Readers – 10 Tips

January 28, 2011 28 Comments

I recently had a guest post up on Problogger.net which spoke to adopting a local slant to your blog should you find you’re like me, and write about a grab bag of topics. If you think this might work for you too then keep reading… 10 tips for growing a local readership. #1 – Add [...]

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Trends Amongst Mom Blogs

January 27, 2011 17 Comments

I’m an observer. I notice things and I ponder them and I wonder why things are the way they are. And I’ve noticed a few things going on in the arena of mom blogs lately so I thought I’d put them out here and see if any of you have noticed ‘em too. If you [...]

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Around the House – Beef and Barley Soup, Crock Pot Edition

January 24, 2011 15 Comments

I have completely and utterly embraced crock pot cooking. It fits in with busy mom life so neatly because I can take 10 min to throw everything in there in the morning and the crock pot does the rest. This Beef and Barley soup recipe is one of my favorites. Beef and Barley Crock Pot [...]

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Enough with the Whine – Bring on the Wine! Week 2

January 22, 2011 2 Comments

This week at Home, we all have head-colds. I can’t taste anything or smell anything and the baby wants to nurse all the time – poor sniffly thing that he is. So I’m thrilled that this weeks Wine Review is hosted by Cheryl at beautifulsideofhectic.com. Her pallet is much more trustworthy than mine at the [...]

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Do I look like Linda Blair?

January 18, 2011 24 Comments

Cause I swear my head is still spinning after what I overheard today! Today was the first warm day we’ve had in a while and the roads were really clear. We decided to pop up to Balzac (snicker) and shop at the new Cross Iron Mills mall. It’s a wonderful mall and it was nearly [...]

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Companions

January 15, 2011 11 Comments

I caught them playing together….really this is the first time. Baby N was just as engaged as she was

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Debut post – Enough with the Whine ~ Bring on the Wine!

January 14, 2011 26 Comments

Here we go folks! It’s about to get really fun around here and it’s mostly because I’ve teamed up with two other fantastic moms to bring you weekly posts about the all mighty Vino! Please meet: Rhea – mommy23monkeys.com Rhea is, as you may have guessed, a mom to three boys. She’s a little on [...]

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Psssst Hey you….Yeah, You!

January 14, 2011 19 Comments

Today is national ‘de-lurking day’ which means if you’re one of those lovely people who is always reading blogs but is never one to comment then today is the day to change that! No more lurking people! Well, for today anyways. Please, if you read hometoheather.com leave a tiny comment. You don’t have to think [...]

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Around the House – Kitchen Tips – How to Chop Bacon

January 12, 2011 3 Comments

If you’re like me, meaning you like bacon but you’re also lazy, you see all kinds of yummy recipes that call for 2 or 3 strips of bacon but your bacon is frozen in a slab of mammoth proportions and there’s no way you’re going to chisel off a tiny bit. That slab is designated [...]

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