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Let’s start things off with the winner of the FreshTECH Electric Water Bath Canner + Multi-Cooker: True Random Number GeneratorMin: 1  Max: 47 Result:  30 Elaine I remember canning tomatoes for the first time in an apartment and my dad had to bring me his turkey fryer pot because I didn’t have one that was big enough! Congrats Elaine!  Shoot me your mailing address and...

One thing I realized when I was flying home this last trip was that I no longer got butterflies in my stomach.  I got butterflies every time I was coming home to see Tony.  It didn’t matter if I had been at work all day or away on a trip without him for several days.  This time I was just. . . coming home.  I...

Depending on your age, I think almost everyone in the 40s, 50s and 60s grew up with someone in their family canning.  For me, it was my Grandma and my Mom.  My first experience with canning was when we would pick my grandmas almost black purple grapes into a big basket and would carry them into the kitchen of my Grandma’s house.  There she would...

So after doing a tiny bit of research, turns out EOS brand lip balm has no SPF except for the yellow/lemon version.  So while I kept reapplying EOS to my lips all day Saturday, it did nothing to protect my lips. That is a comparison from Tuesday to yesterday.  This morning I have two more scabs on my upper lip, but I’ll spare you the...

So not surprisingly, Hannah and Jacob didn’t cook much while I was gone and obviously if you don’t cook, you aren’t going to be doing any grocery shopping.  I had about 15 minutes yesterday morning before I had to leave to figure out what I was going to eat, and after about a minute of seeing what was left in the fridge, I honestly was...

Wow, what a whirlwind weekend I had!  I knew it was going to fly by but it literally felt like a stepped off the plane and before I knew it I was getting back on one!  I am happy to say that now that I have more flying under my belt, I am not nervous at all about flying.  Nice! The first day I got...

Yesterday I felt like I was sweating balls all day.  My co-worker and the husband of one of the attorneys spent four hours moving boxes in and our of our storage unit.  In those four hours I drank four 16 ounce bottles of water and never felt the need to pee because I just sweat it out.  Worse though was that I forgot to bring...

I can’t really say I truly live in the “sticks” but it’s the sticks from where we moved from.  Oak Park is a bustling town, houses are close together and the last house I lived in was on a pretty busy street.  I can still see Tony’s expression when we were sitting in the living room and could hear the cars and motorcycles go by,...

It’s funny how just a random sentence in someone’s blog post can stop you in your tracks and make you take a look at your life and what kind of effort you are putting into it.  My long time blog friend Shelley posted yesterday about cleaning out her closets and used that as an analogy of how putting stuff in her closet was like adding...

Both Hannah and Jacob had to work over the weekend so I had a lot of alone time.  It was actually nice to be able to blast my music and not have to walk on tip toes in the morning because they weren’t sleeping!  I have a bit more traveling coming up – next weekend I’ll be back in Virginia for another family reunion, the...