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Perfect Homemade Chocolate Cake
This is one of my favorite cakes to make. It only has a few more ingredients than a box cake and tastes incredible. I can have this in the oven in 15 minutes. This cake is so good because it has a secret ingredient – hot coffee. The coffee does an amazing job of bringing out the flavor of the chocolate. Surprise your family with this easy homemade chocolate cake and they will be impressed! You probably have most of this cakes ingredients in your pantry already. Ingredients 2 cups sugar 1 3/4 cups flour 3/4 cup cocoa powder 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 tsp baking soda 1…
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How to Create a Garage Mudroom
How to Create A Garage Mudroom in less than a day. Increase the storage and organization in your home and get rid of the entry way clutter with this easy project.
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What’s for Dinner?
I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for new inspiration for my dinner menu. It’s easy to get into a rut of eating the same thing week after week. Sometimes it’s hard to think outside of the box…or pizza box. That’s why I decided to share my dinner ideas weekly. Each week I plan 5-7 dinner ideas depending on what activities that we have on the calendar. I’ll also share my shopping list for those meals to save you even more time. If you have any meal ideas that are favorites in your house, I’d love to hear them! Please add any ideas to the comments! Dinner 1…
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Super Simple Veggie Chili
Simple to make veggie chili thats big on flavor. So hearty and delicious!
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Easy Homemade Granola
Our family loves to munch on granola as a snack or for breakfast with some fruit and yogurt. I try to avoid store bought granola because a lot of it is filled with more junk than good stuff. I started making my own granola after a friend shared her homemade granola recipe a few years ago. Since then, I’ve modified her amazing recipe slightly to fit our tastes. (This recipe also easily be made as a gluten free option.) Grab a big bowl and all of your ingredients. Some of the granola ingredients are optional or depend on your taste preferences (for example: do you prefer pecans or walnuts or…
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What’s for Dinner?
I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for new inspiration for my dinner menu. It’s easy to get into a rut of eating the same thing week after week. Sometimes it’s hard to think outside of the box…or pizza box. That’s why I decided to share my dinner ideas weekly. Each week I plan 5-7 dinner ideas depending on what activities that we have on the calendar. I’ll also share my shopping list for those meals to save you even more time. If you have any meal ideas that are favorites in your house, I’d love to hear them! Please add any ideas to the comments! Dinner 1…
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California Dreams – Part II
Last year I found out that I had a work trip to San Diego for a week in October. My husband and I had never been to California and jumped at the chance to turn the work trip into an amazing 9 day family vacation. After all, who wouldn’t want to fly cross country with a 7 year old and a 1 1/2 year old? I’ll admit, embarking on a 9 day trip with 2 young kids to a place we’d never been before, did seem a little bit intimidating. But in the end this journey ended up being the trip of a lifetime thanks to some VERY careful planning…
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What’s for Dinner?`
I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for new inspiration for my dinner menu. It’s easy to get into a rut of eating the same thing week after week. Sometimes it’s hard to think outside of the box…or pizza box. That’s why I decided to share my dinner ideas weekly. Each week I plan 5-7 dinner ideas depending on what activities that we have on the calendar. I’ll also share my shopping list for those meals to save you even more time. If you have any meal ideas that are favorites in your house, I’d love to hear them! Please add any ideas to the comments! Dinner 1…
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The Essential Guide to Choosing a Lamp
The links in this post may contain affiliate links and I will receive a small commission if you make a purchase after clicking my link. My husband says that I’m always buying lamps and pillows. I feel like I always find a dark corner that I want to light up with a lovely little lamp. And pillows – let’s just say, I like to be comfortable. To be honest, lamps may seem like a strange thing to write about but I think a lot of people are somewhat clueless when it comes to lamps (I definitely was). What’s so complicated you may ask? Well, it doesn’t seem very complicated until…
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My Secret to being “Lucky”
Let me start off by saying that I consider myself extremely lucky in that I have two beautiful daughters and an incredible husband. We’re all healthy and very happy. We live in a nice warm house and have plenty of food to eat, nice clothes and lots of toys. But when I look back at the last 40 something years, I’ve never been a “lucky” person in what you might think of as traditional luck. I don’t gamble because frankly, I’ve never won more than a free ticket in a scratch off. I’m convinced that the lottery pool I was part of at work never won a thing because I…
