It has begun..

Truth be told, I'm a holiday junkie. Yes, it's true. I love holidays. Not only do I love holidays, I love specific seasons. Seeing how there's only four seasons out of the year, I'm rather fond of 50% off 'em, which is Fall and Winter. Coincidentally enough, my favorite holidays fall within those two...

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Kitchen Theater

Just bare with me... I was really bored, despite the fact that I'm really tired from baking all day...and it's barely 11am. I've been up since 5am between cooking bread, cakes, and even cookies.  I was staring at my bag of dried cranberries and was trying to figure out what to make with 'em. I...

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Free Time = Pointless Baking

Now that I have a lot of time on my hands, I try to waste some of the day by baking. Luckily, my son has the week off from school, so he'll gladly help me dispose of all this sinfully sweet stuff (it's be rather porky of me to eat it all). I'm sure Eric would be willing to help, but I have a feeling...

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Dutch (Sand)Castles

After editing well over eighty pictures from Sunday, I can finally start writing a blog, LOL.  Eric, John & I went over to The Netherlands to check out Castle Hoensbroek, which was built around 1250. Our main reason for checking the place out was because they have this awesome sand castle exhibit...

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