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Exercise: I like this Upper Body and Cardio workout because you get upper body strength training in while also doing cardio intervals. The upper body strength training usually doesn’t make you sweat, but alternating like this helps gets your heart going. If you are stuck in the middle of nowhere and can’t jump and can’t go …
Exercise: I keep forgetting to add an exercise update! Here is Abs on Fire – a routine that does rounds of abs and rounds of cardio for 30 minutes. Like everything on there, it is totally free and they don’t sell you anything. Just preach real food and good exercise routines 🙂 Food: Kid …
We have a new favorite craft blog. An elementary art teacher has posted many of her art projects that the students do in class. Need an idea for rainy summer day? Check out Art. Paper. Scissors. Glue. The crafts are even tagged by grade level and medium. If you have some basic paint brushes, …
Granola works great: on top of yogurt, on baked fruit as a crisp topping, in a fruit salad, muffins, with milk, making homemade granola bars, or I just consume copious amounts out of it from the pantry. This granola muffin recipe is amazing! It must start out with GOOD granola though. The granola is the star of …
I have spent the past few evenings making cookies for “Amerikids” the musical. It is a play Wentzville Christian Church is performing this Sunday at 6pm. And…. there are cookies afterwards! The musical talent is awesome. Plus, it’s free! I will take some more detailed photos and explain how to do the cookies step by …
Happy Mother’s Day! I was just watching Netflix Ted Talks again. One talk was heralding how great white bread is due to the fact that it represents our industrialization of food. Without that industrialization, we couldn’t live on 2% of farming familites or feed ourselves pasta from Italy. Louise Fresco points not to the American …
“Meet Me in St. Louis” is over! I have my life back! 😉 Our book club book for this month is “Stargirl” by Jerry Spinelli. I finished watching “Fed Up” on Netflix. It has been released for a while now and worth watching. The basic premise is that the American public has been told …
I started an Etsy store!! There is a new link at the top of the website as well. I hope to put LOTS more fun kitchen items inside the store soon. But for now this is what I have 🙂 I had an idea for a BBQ sauce jar… but the vinyl wouldn’t cooperate. The …
Book Update: I gave up on “All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doer. I must be a freak because now there are not 6 thousand, not 8 thousand, but now 9 thousand reviews on Amazon for this book! That’s like 1000 more reviews since I started reading it. I started reading instead a good …
Book: Our book club book this month is “The Nesting Place: It Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect too Be Beautiful” by Myquillyn Smith. Funny, I was researching decorating and pick this book up in the summer. I didn’t read it because it didn’t teach you how to decorate but more about life while decorating. My …
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