Monthly Archives: April 2016

Large Family Recipes {Feed-a-crowd-Chili}

I’m not sure how it happened 🙂 … but somewhere along the way … we became … a large family …   Shockingly, it still surprises me when we count heads around the table. We didn’t really plan on having a large family but we  did have a change of heart around baby #4, where […]

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Spring, Spring, Spring!

“When the barnyard is busy in a regular tizzy,  then the obvious reason is because of the season … spring, spring, spring!” -Seven Brides for Seven Brothers {flowers from a dear friend} It’s definitely spring around our home lately… (or as the girls have named our little spot – Rainbow Ridge). The weather may not […]

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{Quick} Mixes For the Pantry

 “Ma had cooked an especially good supper because they had company. There was stewed jack rabbit with white-flour dumplings and plenty of gravy. There was a steaming-hot, thick cornbread flavored with bacon fat. There was molasses to eat on the cornbread…” -Little House on the Prairie   One thing I love to see lined up […]

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{Four}

Leia Hyacinth Anne, today you turn four years old! We hope you feel loved and and adored and know you are a beautiful part of our big, crazy family! Life would certainly be boring without you in the middle … 🙂 … and we would not have such fun tales to tell if you did […]

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Herbal Remedies {for Babies & Adults alike}

Little Lazarus had a fever a few days ago … it was his first (thankfully) and it was not severe, but enough to make him unhappy. Poor thing … I don’t think it was teething but perhaps it could have been. I have never had a baby teeth this early so I have my doubts […]

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