Happy New Year, everyone! Here at the White house, I’ve been bitten by the organizing bug. It doesn’t happen often, and usually passes if I just spend some time on Pinterest, but it’s almost always triggered by the appearance in the stores of shiny new storage containers. I’ve even been organizing my digi-stuff! A new 1.5 Terabyte external hard drive somehow got delivered along
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No matter what holiday you celebrate, it’s hard not to get swept up in the year-end festivities. This is my first year ever as a ‘working mom’ (I only work 9-2, but it seems to take up most of my day!) and I’m swamped. So this year, instead of a post a day like we’ve done in the past, I’m going to do a
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With the changing of the leaves fast approaching most of the States, we’ve been doing a few posts on how to capture the beautiful colors of the trees and leaves around your area.  Regretfully, sometimes you  just can’t get that amazing color you see  in front of you captured on your digital camera.  In the film days, a solution to this was to grab 
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Fall has finally hit here in the southern half of the country – the temperatures are finally out of the red-zone, and the trees are just starting to turn. You need a jacket if you’re staying until the end of the Friday night football game, and festivals are a dime-a-dozen on the weekends! Having lived the majority of my life in New England and
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Every time I pick up a recipe card out of Great Aunt Elizabeth’s wooden recipe box, I’m taken back in time. The treasure trove of handwritten recipes she left me are precious to me and a family heirloom. My oldest daughter will be off to college soon, and I want to send her with a cookbook of all the recipes we cook every day,
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