I know Nutter Butters are supposed to be made with Peanut Butter. Except I was on task to make some for a friends puppy shower. Of course, I waited until two days before the party to make the cookies and realized I had no peanut butter in the house. Instead of making a grocery run, I substituted the Trader Joe’s Sunflower Butter instead. I got to thinking how awesome this snack would be for Annabelle’s Toddler Group because they are
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Annabelle has this crazy game she likes to play. First, she’ll engage in some sort of verbal back and forth of her own babbling and then at the strangest time will lean in and laugh as hard as possible. She is just learning the rules of laughter, which is quite interesting and something I hadn’t given much thought to. The rules of laughter are quite interesting. Laughter can be used to bond with a person or a group, to make
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I have piles and piles of great recipes that I’ve printed out. Most of the time, I fold them up and place them inside my various cookbooks. I also have a few family recipes that linger around in a 4×6 recipe box that is opened up usually around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Recently, my Mom came to visit and she told me about a great idea to organize all those recipes that I had laying around as well as to consolidate
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The last month kicked my butt, literally. I was out on my duff for the last month with just barely enough energy to keep my eyes open watching Annabelle. The entire house went down. Her naptimes were spent either sleeping or watching Leverage, because I had no energy. No clothes put away for about a month and there was a stack five across and about three feet tall in the laundry room. I did have enough energy to wash, dry, and fold for
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