Last weekend we had our belated “Beach Babes and their Boys” Valentine Dinner. This has been a tradition for my Beach Babe group for years! It is the one time of year we let our husbands in on some of our fun! Shauna and Merrill are always our delightful hosts for the evening. As usual, the [...]
My “Go To” Salad Dressing – Balsamic Vinaigrette
February 25, 2009 By 14 Comments
Everyone needs one – a yummy, basic and easy to make homemade salad dressing. For years I bought my salad dressing but once I started making homemade salad dressing I rarely buy it anymore! We eat salad with dinner every-night, usually a spinach salad. We have the rule at our house that there must always be [...]
2008 Book List
February 23, 2009 By 22 Comments
At the beginning of the year I shared with you that one of my 2008 goals had been to read 100 books in 2008. A rather lofty goal as in 2007 I had only read 28. As you know, I didn’t make my 2008 goal but I did read 31. I have revamped my goal [...]
Manly Meal – Steak Bites
February 20, 2009 By 19 Comments
I have a confession to make! I skipped Sunday School last week! Shh – no one tell my mother or my husband – o.k.? I really didn’t skip on purpose, well I guess I kind of did. I came home to get something really quick and before I knew it I was on my computer surfing [...]
Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
February 18, 2009 By 14 Comments
It looks like my rebuilt laptop will be returning home from the computer hospital soon! In the mean time I am taking advantage of the intermittent Internet connection I get on my old, tired desktop to get a post up! My favorite dessert of all times is a warm, gooey chocolate chip cookie with a scoop [...]
Banner Giveaway Winner
February 17, 2009 By 4 Comments
I apologize for the delay in announcing the winner of our Banner Giveaway but we’ve been invaded! Sunday evening I selected the winner, copied the picture of the winning number, copied the winner’s comment and then somehow a Trojan virus invaded my laptop! Fortunately I have a wonderful computer guy that I called immediately and he [...]
Dream Board Tutorial
February 16, 2009 By 5 Comments
Note: Check out the fun new giveaway this week over at iLashGirls! You are going to want it!! Last week I had a fun activity with some members of my homebased business team. We put together Dream Boards. When I visited cold Minnesota in January my friend Susan took me through a dream board exercise [...]
Sweet Treats – Chocolate Dipped Oreos
February 13, 2009 By 28 Comments
This is the final Sweet Treat recipe this week – hopefully you have found something amongst all this week’s recipes to make for all the Valentines in your life! I didn’t start out making chocolate dipped Oreos. My original plan was to share these yummy looking and sounding “Passion Pops” that were featured in the February [...]
Mother Goose Popcorn
February 12, 2009 By 16 Comments
Note: Don’t forget to enter the Valentine Banner Giveaway before Friday, Feb. 13 at midnight PST. Click here to enter. For Valentine’s Week I’ve got yet another quick and easy Sweet Treat for you! If the Oreo Truffles or the Crispy Chocolate Cherry Treats or the Spiced Nuts didn’t do it for you maybe the pink Mother Goose [...]
Sweet Treats – Spiced Nuts
February 11, 2009 By 6 Comments
Today’s Sweet Treat is usually one of those treats people make at the Christmas holidays but it makes a great Valentine treat too. Especially if you know someone who doesn’t care for chocolate (hard to imagine!) Spiced nuts are quick and easy to make and you feel like you are almost eating something healthy! At least it’s not [...]
