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My favorite time of the year is spring. I love hearing the birds chirp and seeing the trees and the flowers in bloom. It almost seems as if there is another level of clarity and brightness to everything around you. When the weather gets warm, my husband loves to dust off the grill and get those burgers, steaks and hot…
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When I was a kid, I had four older siblings. Because they were a minimum of 10 years on me, they didn’t interact with me all that often. This meant I spent a lot of time on my own. I was a pretty imaginative kid who was always pretending to be one thing or another. My mom said the one…
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Honey Rhubarb Iced Tea Recipe We have three enormous rhubarb plants in one of our garden beds. Our wonderful neighbor, Mr. Scoop (not his real name, but this is what we have all taken to calling him…his wife is Mrs. Scoop) gave us the plants when my mom was sick, knowing that we visited her at least monthly up in…
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This Star Darlings Cocomoon Punch recipe is brought to you by our friends at Disney Press. We learned about the cocomoon fruit in Star Darlings: A Wisher’s Guide to Starland. Our love for Star Darlings has grown since we first met them back in February. The bright, colorful Darlings who star in the series are the starlets of the book…
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We bought a lot, I mean A LOT of baby cereal when the boys were babies. We anticipated they would eat a lot of it and they did but it wasn’t always as “cereal”. We used it in lots of recipes. One of their favorites, actually this was a favorite of their big brother and sister too, was Cereal Bars…
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I am excited to partner with American Express and Hilton for this sponsored opportunity to make my family travel goals and summer trip to Orlando happen. Most of us are happy to travel to different places. Maybe you just love to travel back to your childhood hometown. Maybe you love to travel the world. One obstacle for many folks is the cost…
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