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I am a mother of 4, grandmother of 9 and married to my best friend

Don’t Eat Lucky!

Posted on February 21, 2012 by Rita

This is a fun game that my grand kids love to play, this is a St. Patrick’s Day version of “Don’t Eat Pete!” It is called Don’t Eat Lucky! This is a fun game for FHE or for a school class party, (just print multiple game boards), even adults can get in on the fun with this game!

Here is the game board:

To print, just right click on your mouse and go to copy. Then open your favorite program and right click again and paste. You can then print it out. It is in an 8 1/2 x 11 format, but you can print any size that you would like.

	How to Play “Don’t Eat Lucky “
Items Needed	• A supply of M&M’s^® candies, or any candies that can be picked up and eaten. • A printed game board
How to Play:	Place one M&M in each square of the game board. Send the first child away from the game board, then have the remaining children choose which M&M will be “Lucky” for the round. Have the first child come back and begin picking M&M’s from the game board. As soon as the child tries to pick “Lucky” everyone yells “Don’t Eat Lucky!” The child keeps all the M&M’s picked up before trying to get Lucky. Refill the game board and play again with the next child.

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By George! It’s a Cherry Dessert!

Posted on February 20, 2012 by Rita

Happy Presidents Day to everyone!

This is not a holiday that we normally really celebrate at our house. The grand kids are out of school but most everyone in my family still have to work today. But I decided that we could at least celebrate with this super easy little cherry dessert! This is one that even the kids will eat, because it is a cupcake!

I started with this box cake mix. I really kind of like these “Fun-da-middles because they have a filling in the middle and they only make 12 cupcakes, which is just the right size for us! This is a new spring one that I found that has a pink filling! So cute!

But you can use any cake mix that you like, or make your own cupcakes from your favorite recipe from scratch!
I simply opened a can of cherry pie filling and put that on top of the cupcake and then used the canned whipped cream for the whipped cream. It looks so pretty and it tastes so good and I don’t think it could of been any easier! :)So does anyone want a bite? YUM!

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A Nifty Little Soap Trick

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Rita

Today’s post goes along with the knitted dishcloths and everyone is going to have the cleanest kitchens in town!

One of my DIL’s showed me this great new product. It is foaming dish soap! I love it for when you want to just wash a dish or two or wipe up the counters. It works like a charm and since it is foaming you do not get a gooey slimy mess all over!

Then she told me that it is refillable too! Bonus! But what is even better is that she told me about this nifty little soap trick! You do not have to use the refillable soap for this you can make your own!

You have to have a foaming pump bottle to do this, but once you have purchased one you can refill it over and over! Just fill your bottle about 1/4 of the way or less, with any dish soap. Go easy, though, if you get too much “regular” soap the end result is slimy. Slowly add water to about 2/3 of the way to the top. You need to leave a little breathing room. It helps to tilt the bottle and pour the water in at an angle, hitting the side of the bottle first so it doesn’t go directly into the soap and create premature bubbles. Put the lid back on, shake it all up, and you are good to go! A brand new bottle of foaming dish soap, for pennies.

My friend gave me this cute foaming hand soap dispenser for Christmas and I am so excited because I can do the very same thing with my hand soap!Just use your regular refill soap and make it into foaming soap! I think that this big refill bottle will now last me through the millennium! :)Do any of you have any great household tips? I would love for you to share them with me!

If any of you would like to view my DIL’s blog to see about this go here.

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Knitted Dishcloths

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Rita

When I was a little girl, only 4-5 years old my mother took me to a yarn shop called Hiendselman’s, in Provo, Utah. They taught me how to knit! It seems hard to believe now, but I can still remember the lady telling me “In – around – and through” and I remember even at that early age how I loved all the colors and textures of the yarns that were in slots on the wall! So I guess that I have my mother to blame for all my craft making. Even though she is no longer here, she started it! Thanks mom!:)

It seems like every winter that I get the urge to start knitting these dishcloths. They are the most wonderful things because they are made with all cotton yarn and they absorb the water when you are wiping your kitchen counters. They are also a nice big size for washing dishes! I have made so many different colors and styles, but this is the pattern that I always come back to. I use the Sugar and Cream yarn and I can get two dishcloths out of one skein. Although the with new “twist” Peaches and Cream yarn, I could only get 3 dishcloths out of 2 skeins of yarn, even though they are the same yardage and weight, it is a finer yarn. (They are the red and green ones.)

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Happy Valentines Day!

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Rita

Today I would like to do something that I have not done before and that is to do a tribute to my dear hubby. These are the beautiful roses that he sent to the house, they smell sooo good and they look so beautiful. When they arrived they were these tight little buds and they have opened up and released the most beautiful scent!We had red roses for our wedding almost 36 years ago and I still love them today!

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Salted Caramels

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Rita

I saw a bag of salted caramels at a boutique in our neighborhood last weekend, but for some reason I did not buy any and then I could not seem to get them off my mind! So I came home a decided to give my hand a try at making some. I found a recipe that used sweetened condensed milk and adapted it to make these. I asked my husband to taste them and tell me what he thought. He said that there was something wrong with them and I thought he was going to say that they were salty, but he said what was wrong was that you could not eat just one! He loves them! He has made several comments since on how good they are! So that is quite the compliment!

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The Ultimate Sugar Cookie

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Rita

I finally broke down and made sugar cookies for Valentines day. I say that because I know that if I make them I am going to eat them! This recipe really is “The Ultimate Sugar Cookie.” I don’t know if any of you ever go to the little cookie shops around your area and get a big sugar cookie with the cream cheese frosting and you savor every bite, well here is the recipe for those big fat cookies!

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The Smell Test

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Rita

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Triad Retail Media for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

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Oh wow! Have any of you tried the new Glade® Expressions™ I decided to try the fragrant mist and I was very pleasantly surprised with it. I sprayed it in my kitchen which is a big open room along with the dining room and also in a small bathroom. I left the house for a couple of hours to go to lunch with a friend and I had forgotten all about the spray. When I returned home I was welcomed with the most pleasant fragrance! I was surprised by how much I could still smell the aroma. Even my husband made a comment about how he could smell something good, which is surprising because he is has lost a lot of his sense of smell! But what was even more pleasant was the next day when I woke up I could still smell the wonderful, fresh, pineapple and mangosteen smell! I was sold. It comes in some wonderful scents like: Cotton and Italian Mandarin, Fuji Apple and Cardamon, Spice Lavender and Juniper Berry but the one I liked the best was the Pineapple and Mangosteen. Walmart.com - Glade Expressions Air Fresheners It has the most refreshing clean, citrusy smell that really made me feel like it was spring inside when outside it was a cold wintery morning. I like the easy to squeeze trigger and that it is refillable. Glade® Expressions™ has a fragrance satisfaction guarantee or your money back at http://bit.ly/xMScbO and right now you can buy it at Walmart and they have a money saving coupon of $1.50 off, available at http://bit.ly/zus6F5)

Glade® Expressions™ also has an oil diffuser that last 30 days and does not require any electricity. It has a fun no-spill design and would fit in any décor and you can use the coupon for it also.

Chocolate Raspberry Cups

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rita

Woot, Woot! My rss reader has had a post teaser on it that I could not seem to get removed, but it is now off! Yeah! I think that I might have actually jumped up and down and shouted for joy!

So let’s celebrate with a little chocolate!

I saw these in an ad that came in the mail and I decided to give it a try and see if I could make some on my own. I liked the results and my family loved these!

They are beautiful to look at and oh so yummy and wouldn’t these be a fun little Valentine gift for that special little someone? Continue reading →

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Bruschetta

Posted on February 7, 2012 by Rita

One of the dishes that my daughter made for our Super Bowl meal was Bruschetta. It tasted so good in the middle of the winter. Of course it tastes better with home grown tomatoes in the summer, but hey we’ll take what we can get! I love the tomatoes, garlic and basil flavors in this scrumptious appetizer! Doesn’t it look good enough to just eat with a spoon? (And maybe I did or did not do that!)

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