Menu Plan Monday

Monday: Cheeseburgers, french fries and salad
Tuesday: Taco Salad
Wednesday:  Home made Chicken Soup, garlic bread
Thursday: BBQ’d Chicken and Pasta Salad
Friday: TBA
Saturday: Chicken Cordon Bleu
Sunday: Mother’s Day!!  Dinner out for me and my Mom!
I have my notes at home and for the life of me can’t remember what I have in store for Friday…maybe just leftover buffet [...]

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I haven’t posted a good grocery trip deal in a while and I had a pretty good one this weekend so this seems like a good time.  I didn’t need too much from Shoprite this week, and there didn’t really seem to be too many good deals anyway but the deals they did have were really good. 
Here’s what [...]

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My Favorite Irish Movies!
Some of my favorite Irish themed movies…I try to watch most of them around St. Patrick’s Day…
1.  The Quiet Man (definately my favorite of them all…its got it all… romance, a good fight scene, all the old Irish sayings my grandmothers used to say ! ).
2. Far and Away (my second [...]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!!!!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, here it is: Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona dhuit/dhaoibh (singula/plural) Pronunciation: law ay-leh paw-drig hun-ah gwitch/yeeve
St. Patrick’s Day on the History Channel’s web site You could spend hours exploring what’s on offer! Featured are videos, history, a quiz, destinations and much more. http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=mini_home&mini_id=1082
St. Patrick’s Festival, Dublin, Ireland
Although times and [...]

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Menu Plan Monday

I’ve missed posting a couple of weeks of menu plans but I’ve still been pretty good about doing them on paper which has been great.  I’ve actually tried quite a few new recipes too.  My next challenge is to use new recipes from my many, many cookbooks instead of always just printing new ones off [...]

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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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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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Spring Has Sprung…

Ahhh, Spring is finally here!  I did not spend one minute of the weekend doing any Spring cleaning either LoL.  There’s plenty of time for that on rainy days.  Instead we went to our library’s Earth Day celebration and made ‘Newspaper Nelson’s”, a little newspaper pillow with a face made of scraps of art supplies.  [...]

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Where I’ve Been…

I was looking for some fun, bloggy thing to do and came across this link.  I only put the states I’ve actually stayed in or visited, not just passed through, still, it seems like I’ve seen more than this…I’ll have to get busy doing more travelling I think.

 

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