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Snowman Donuts: An Easy Christmas Morning Breakfast
I always hated the stomach grumble in my tummy after opening gifts on Christmas. I always wondered why we didn’t eat breakfast first. As I grew older, we started to make family breakfast first and then opening gifts. It made gift opening so much more enjoyable, and I loved that I could begin to use my…

Healthy Beef Stroganoff Meal
The following is a guest post from Deserae of Oh So Delicioso This is my Grandma Doxey’s Recipe for Beef Stroganoff. She makes it so great…like grandmas do. And like grandmas do, they tend to not have precise measurements…so I did my best to make precise measurements to help ya’ll out. But if you think…

12 Simple DIY Halloween Decorations For Your Home
While I LOVE cute DIY Halloween decorations, I feel like I am at a time in my life where I don’t have much time nor money to do these sort of things. But sometimes I can’t help but see these cute ideas, and I have to do them so my house can be beautiful like…




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