From the monthly archives:

October 2008

Cookbook Winner!

October 31, 2008

Welcome! If you’re new to The Finer Things in Life, you might like to subscribe for free updates. Subscribe via RSS to read updates in your favorite feed reader, or via email to have new posts delivered directly to your inbox. Thanks for visiting!Heather A is my cookbook winner! Thanks everyone for entering — happy [...]

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Happenin’ Halloween

October 31, 2008

Whew! What a crazy day! My menu plan was (mostly) shot. Our relaxing no-school-today day was shot. I am shot!

We did manage to make and decorate pumpkin pancakes, but the kids weren’t too crazy about eating them. They didn’t like the chocolate chips! Are those my children?!?
After a speedy breakfast we hit the road. Game [...]

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Souptacular Crockpotalooza

October 30, 2008

Oh, my! Soup alert! You MUST go check this out… right now! Lots and lots of yummy soup recipes just in time for the briskly cool fall and freezing cold winter. Ya gotta love a hot bowl of soup… simmering in the crock pot all day… smelling up your house with a rich, tasty aroma… [...]

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A Tasty Experiment

October 29, 2008

I have quite the stash of recipes, and because I’m a make-do kind of girl I often adjust them a little to suit my family’s tastes or to substitute ingredients for what we have on hand, but I can claim very few as my own. This one, though… it’s definitely mine.
On Monday, under the careful [...]

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Quirky Randomness

October 29, 2008

I’ve been tagged! Twice! One tag (from Kate) is to name seven random things about me, and the other (from Kim) is to confess five of my quirks. Quirks, huh? Hmmm… according to my insightful husband, I do have a few of those.
In the interest of time and a lack of creativity (I don’t know if I can [...]

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Control What You Can Control

October 28, 2008

There’s a lot in this life that seems out of my control. I could easily spend my time in frustration, whining about and bemoaning those things (while making everyone around me miserable)… but instead, I’m trying to take responsibility and ownership of whatever I can control.

I can’t control who becomes our next president, but I can vote [...]

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Pie Crust Pleasers

October 27, 2008

After making chicken pot pie last week, I had some leftover pie crust. The thing about tender, flaky pie crust is that you shouldn’t touch it. Don’t mess with it too much, or it gets tough. Tough pie crust is not tasty pie crust. And “not tasty” pie crust is just plain not worth it!
So, instead of messing with [...]

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Gratituesday: My 100th Post!

October 27, 2008

According to my dashboard, this is my 100th blog post! Wow — how did that happen? And to think, I had virtually no idea that the blogging community even existed six months ago. Crazy, I know. This blogging thing? I absolutely love it. And this Gratituesday thing? It is necessary. In all circumstances.
In honor of my [...]

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It’s Giveaway Time!

October 27, 2008

I love a good cookbook, and a good cookbook to me is a hometown church cookbook. It doesn’t matter whose hometown it is… Who can resist the comfort food that so many real ladies are willing to share? Real ingredients; real food. I love it, and well… I have too many good cookbooks.
In a continued [...]

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