Giveaways, Giveaways, Giveaways…

Its time for the quarterly Bloggy Giveaway Carnival!  Yeah!  There are over a thousand links to blogs that are giving away prizes so click on the link in my Favorite Links and start entering ! 
Here are a couple that especially caught my eye…
A Family Completed is giving away a $50 gift card to Victoria’s Secret.
Unexpected [...]

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Chicken Pot Pie

Along with doing a menu plan every week I also wanted to start trying some new recipes…I certainly have enough cookbooks and recipes to choose from LoL!  Anyway, I LOVE chicken pot pies and I’ve never tried making one myself, but I had some Pillsbury pie shells left over from the extra pie I never baked [...]

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Menu Plan Monday

Monday:  Chicken Pot Pie
Tuesday: Bow Ties w/ Italian Sausage and Sweet Peppers
Wednesday: Mac n Cheese
Thursday: Penne Pasta with Garlic Croutons and Almonds
Friday: Grilled Cheese and chicken noodle soup
Saturday:  Lamb chops and veggies
Sunday: Dinner at mom’s – Loin of pork?
Some repeats from last weeks list since I didn’t follow it completely.  I did make the insides [...]

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Awesome Giveaway!

I was checking out some on-line blog giveaways and stumbled across this one from Saving for the Farm .  The winner receives 20 pages designed and ready to use in a photobook.  I would so love to win this one because I have not been able to use my PSP to do scrapbooking in months and [...]

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Menu Plan Monday…

I’m even a bit early.  My first official menu plan of  2009…
Monday: Chicken legs in Lemon Pepper marinade, green beans and a Pasta Side
Tuesday: Italian Sausage Calzone
Wednesday: Pasta w/almonds and garlic croutons, veggies
Thursday: Chicken Salad Club Sandwiches with tomatoes
Friday: Pasta w/Almonds leftovers
Saturday: Chicken Pot Pie

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Grocery Shopping…with Coupons!

I am determined to cut our spending this year and I’m starting with our groceries.  To get me started on the right foot A&P conveniently had triple coupons this week !  I don’t usually shop at A&P because I find that they’re more expensive than Shoprite and, of course, Wal-Mart, but I keep an eye [...]

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More Organizing Stuff for 2009 and a Kroger’s Giveaway!

Ok, so most of the Christmas stuff is down and I even mananged to go through it, pack it all into plastic bins and label each box with what’s inside.  No more piles of cardboard boxes of all different sizes teetering on top of each other.  I even packed the breakable ornaments separately.  All that’s left is the Nativity set and [...]

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Goodbye 2008…Hello 2009!

So this is it…the end of the Holiday Season!  I am so ready for the holidays to be over this year.  Abbey is at a perfect age for making Christmas magical and I enjoyed every single minute…but right now I am really looking forward to getting back to a normal routine.  I have never taken [...]

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