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I’ve been gone for four days.  It seems that it must have rained quite a bit as my garden and lawn were saturated -as was the carpet in my office .   That may be a post for another day!
Last week I planted my second round of green beans (on Thursday I think). [...]

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Practicing contentment by remembering the graces of the week and practicing gratitude by giving.
This week I was blessed to have my mom visit – with extra hands around, I seemed to get so much done in a short amount of time!  The visit has been extended since I brought her home and GBaby and I [...]

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I’m always looking for easy recipes that present themselves as a more laborious dish than they really are.  In the summer, the less time in the oven or at the stove the better.  This fantastic Peanut Butter Cup pie is tweaked from a recipe used at Sonlight Camp, where HandyMan and I have spent some [...]

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Updated August 19, 2010:  If you’re joining me from Life As Mom’s Ultimate Recipe Swap, welcome!  My broccoli didn’t give enough this year to freeze, but all the little bits ended up in yummy fried rice, along with all the other garden bits that weren’t quite enough to freeze up!
I love Chinese food, but it [...]

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It has been a party in my garden this week.  My mom is visiting and has been helping with all the gardening, kid chasing, freezing and cooking around here – it’s such a great help to have extra hands!  G-Baby has taken to eating the green beans straight from the garden.

The pumpkins, acorn squash and [...]

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Practicing contentment by remembering the graces of the week and practicing gratitude by giving.
This week has included fresh blueberries and first cucumbers and green beans. Salads with garden lettuce and little bits of raspberry snacks from around the yard.
One of my favorite moments was while out picking blueberries, looking over to see GBaby plopped underneath a [...]

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One of my favorite things about where we live is the organic blueberry orchard where we pick every year.  Their bushes are all 5 to 7 feet tall and picking is easy!  So far we’ve made it home with about 6 quarts of berries for less than $12 – can’t beat that!  And it’s a [...]

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One year ago today, I started blogging here at  ThrivingMama!  For those of you who have joined me more recently, you may have missed out on some of my philosophies I shared early on: like how I really don’t like grocery shopping, why I love our cloth diapers, or why I garden.
I’ve shared a lot [...]

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This week, my gardening has brought about some relocation and identity changes.  My poor basil was not growing and the square it was in kept getting overgrown by grass.  Since I’m starting to see baby tomatoes last week, I decided that if garden bruschetta was going to be on my August menu, my basil needed [...]

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