Featured Blog: Coral Reef Island

Christmas is quickly approaching, and still there's so much to do! Finding the right Christmas recipes to make for family get-togethers, decking the halls, mailing Christmas cards, the list goes on and on! So in between prepping the ham or tinseling the tree, check out Coral Reef Island. With frosty recipes, holiday how-tos, and more, Coral Reef Island has it all! (including cute little penguins all over the place!)

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Happy Thanksgiving! No matter where we live, what we do, or who we are, we all have something to be thankful for. Good family, friends, life, liberty, shelter, food, love. The list goes on and on. So remember when you're carving into  that delicious turkey to say thanks for all the things you have.

Check Out... All You Can Chew

Bonjour! 

Today I thought I would share this blog, All You Can Chew, that I just joined. It's pretty new, but it has some cute and random stories as well as die-for recipes. So be sure to visit when you can and tell her what you think!

"Slow Cooker Corn Beef"  with added vegetables and herbs

How to Have a Fabulous Fall

Fall has finally fallen! Pumpkin pie, bonfires, ghost stories, apple cider are here for the taking! With Halloween being in just two weeks, it feels like winter is just around the corner. In order to properly prepare for the season, I have created a short but sweet list of must-dos before winter takes over.

     1. Hold a pumpkin-carving competition with a few friends

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2. Go rake leaves for an elderly neighbor

3. Take a walk through a park and admire the fall colors

4. Make a pumpkin pie!

5. Have a (safe) bonfire with ghost stories!

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6. Squeeze some fresh apple cider

7. Get lost in a corn maze

8. Shop for fall fashions

9. Invite a friend or two over for a scary movie marathon!

10. Host a Halloween party!

Goodbye, Summer...

Hi again! Sorry, I 've been a little behind on my posts and I'm afraid it's only going to get worse... but I'll try to post whenever I can. Everything's going as well as can be expected at school. Hope you are all having a good week too. :)  It's a little depressing thinking about the dog days of summer being almost over, but I'm pretty sure life would be even more intensely boring without the changing of the seasons... fall's coming, and bringing its beautiful colorful settings!

Until next time, keep those wheels spinning!

True Beauty...

True Beauty. It's something that everyone wants, but seems just about unobtainable to everyone. Recently, I've been wondering just what true beauty means. Does it mean the best-looking makeup, the hair with the best products, the body with the curviest curves? I'm inclined to think not. Let's take a close look at the things that truly define us- and therefore our TRUE beauty- as a person. Is it our ability to make people smile? The way we give encouragement to friends and enemies alike? Or maybe it's the way we befriend everyone that walks into our lives. Whatever makes us feel beautiful, without having to look in a mirror to see it, is what defines us as truly beautiful. Not what we put on our faces, bodies, or heads, but what we already have, in our hearts and minds.

School Daze...

   So who's ready for the school year? Not many, I'd imagine.

  Whether it's offspring in grade school, siblings in high school, or selves in college, there's bound to be a lot of rushing around going on.
  My sisters start next week in high school- both of them!- and college starts next week for me (and if you think that gives away my age, you're wrong. I once knew a person who was in college for like 15 years!). I'm really excited about some of my classes (big surprise), and I'm worried that maybe that is a bad idea. You don't realize how un-fun something is until you see the syllabus!
  But I'll tell you what a big part of my wardrobe for school will be... fun plaids ! (went shopping yesterday especially for academic wardrobe :) )

Do you know someone who's prepping for school?

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