
With Christmas fast approaching, it’s time for us to finalize our plans. Will we spend Christmas at home together? Will we visit our parents or will they come to us? Thank goodness they are only 45 minutes away. I don’t even want to think about having to take a long road trip or even a…
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The mouth watering poultry that you are drooling over is the turkey that I made using a soy sauce brine. It was my first turkey and I must say, I did pretty darn good. It was very tender and and simply flavorlicious. Kikkoman sent us a package full of their products, recipes and a gift…
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This Thanksgiving we are doing something new. We are having Thanksgiving dinner at our house. It’s exciting because it’s our first time hosting a gathering and we’re breaking out of a routine. Each Thanksgiving my mother gives something at her house and Greg’s grandmother gives something at hers. Since Greg, Boogie, and I are a…
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This holiday season, Viva is all about encouraging families to get closer to their food by ditching the silverware and eating food with your hands. We surely eat a lot of foods that require using our hands, so this “challenge” was a peace of cake. One of our favorite foods to eat with our hands…
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Since we’ve moved in September, we’ve felt much better about the place we call home. We are comfortable with our increased living space, the location is perfect and we are still close to family. Now that we are settled in a home that we will be in for years, we’ve been considering having parties and…
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I am excited to announce that I will be joining The BlogRollers and several other bloggers as an ambassador of the Macy’s Rwanda Path to Peace Project! The Path to Peace project was created three years ago by Willa Shalit and her company Fair Winds Trading. Through this project, Shalit has created trade partnerships with…
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