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I have to admit that I shy away from making breakfast and usually opt for cereal, but in an effort to save money and work on building up the nutritional level, I’ve been making a hot breakfast a few times a week. Here’s my whole wheat pancakes:

First, I assembled the ingredients. (Note the [...]

Our oldest daughter had a lovely senior clarinet recital this year. As her teacher for the past six years it was so rewarding to see how she has blossomed into such an amazing musician. She plays with a lot of passion and feeling, and her technique is really good. She has worked hard and practiced for [...]

We love summer! I just wish it lasted all year, but then maybe I wouldn’t appreciate it so much. On July 4th we used our little fire pit in the back yard to pop poppers, and make s’mores. One of the little boys only wanted to eat the marshmallows, and one of the older children [...]

We did a post for Mother’s Day, so here’s the Father’s Day post. John is such a great Dad, and we had such fun honoring him and celebrating all he does. His theme for Father’s Day was there’s more for your life at Sears. He had a lot of good experiences during his time at [...]

Here we are with our sad excuse for snow here in West Tennessee. We keep hoping for more, but haven’t seen any yet. We would rather have snow than tornadoes though!

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We had a nice Easter this year. Last year we went to North Carolina to visit Deanna and Way, but this year it was just us. We recently changed churches, from a small Presbyterian church to a larger non-denominatial church. The girls and I made dresses for them, and I smocked an outfit for baby [...]

Well, in the last post we had discovered that the previous sellers had covered up a rotten wall on the front of the garage. Now, we discovered that the other wall was rotten, partially due to rot and partially due to termites. As you can see from the pictures, the supporting 2×4’s were not even [...]

When we bought our house we loved the inside, loved the property and thought the outside was just normal. Little did we know that the previous owners (two owners ago) had put vinyl siding over rotting masonite siding. We had only lived here a short time when the ceiling in the garage started leaking. We [...]