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Baked Ziti

This is a great recipe to double and freeze one for a later date.
1 (16oz) package ziti pasta
1 pound mild Italian sausage casings removed (I used ground beef instead)
1Tbsp minced garlic
2 (26) jars marinara sauce
1 1/2 tsp dried basil divided
1 small onion chopped
1 cup chopped eggplant (the kids don’t even know it’s there!)
12 oz ricotta […]

13Nov2008 | christine | 0 comments | Continued
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New Rules for Brownie Troop

Our brownie troop is full of some very social girls. Our meetings seemed to be filled with myself and Christine constantly asking the girls to be quiet, listen or pay attention. I was beginning to question myself as to why I was still leading the troop, as I was no longer enjoying it […]

13Nov2008 | teal | 0 comments | Continued
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Slow Cooker Thursdays

My house is starting to smell good this morning! At this very moment, I have a pork roast with potatoes in the crock pot. I got the recipe from $5 Dinners and so far, the recipes I’ve tried from her have been great! Her recipe is below (and make note at the […]

13Nov2008 | teal | 5 comments | Continued
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Meal Plan Monday

I have recently discovered $5 Dinners blog and have spent some time checking out the recipes on her site. This week, we’re going to try three of her recipes. Because we have six people in our family, I will have to spend more than $5 and am hoping to keep it around $6-$7. […]

10Nov2008 | teal | 3 comments | Continued
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School Live Auction

Holding a live auction at our carnival has been an awesome fundraiser for our school for the past four years. Of course, there are the typical items to bid on that were donated, hotel nights, zoo tickets, Six Flags tickets, etc., but here are some out-of-the-ordinary things we had up for auction….and they were […]

7Nov2008 | teal | 0 comments | Continued
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More Carnival Details

When planning our carnival, we discovered how much our bilingual parents and classes were willing to contribute. Previously, there was always a language barrier. This time, we had a great person translating and their participation was impressive. Not only did they coordinate their own games, which included traditional games of tug-of-war, musical […]

6Nov2008 | teal | 0 comments | Continued
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Carnival Games

At our school carnival, kindergarten was in charge of the duck pond game ring toss game.  The idea originated from FunRent, check it out, there are a lot of great ideas there. We made our own version of their duck pond game. Since the carnival theme was “mad scientist” we used scientist ducks […]

5Nov2008 | teal | 1 comment | Continued
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Halloween Photos

Late is better than never, right?
The girls had such fun dressing up and trick-or-treating. My son hung out with his buddies and didn’t come along with us. My sister dressed up as a gorilla and her husband was a banana. We only got a picture of her, the girls and the dog. […]

4Nov2008 | teal | 0 comments | Continued
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On-Line Christmas Lists

My tackle for today will be to set up a group for our family to share our Christmas wish lists. My sister found a site called Little Blue Bird and you can create any kind of wish list. The neat thing about it, you can create groups and within those groups, say you […]

4Nov2008 | teal | 2 comments | Continued
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Halloween Treat

This week my oldest daughter decided that she wanted to give her teachers a treat for Halloween.  She did at least give me a couple of days notice- that’s better than last year.  Anyways, I found these cute Peppermint Pattie spiders at www.splitcoaststampers.com.  They are super easy to make and I think really cute!

30Oct2008 | christine | 0 comments | Continued
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