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Shining My Lantern: Cranberry Wine, Rhubarb Wine, Dandelion Wine...
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Thoughts on gratitude, caregiving, food, family, and finding my inner light. Monday, May 16, 2011. Cranberry Wine, Rhubarb Wine, Dandelion Wine. The fun thing about our annual family homemade Christmas exchange. Is that we get to work on it all year! About a year ago we took a winemaking class (a gift from my friend H) at a local winery called Cap N' Corks. Wines bottled and purchased at Cap N' Corks, winemaking instruction book from the workshop. Green apple wine that we bottled during the class. Even i...
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Shining My Lantern: The Early Bird
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Thoughts on gratitude, caregiving, food, family, and finding my inner light. Saturday, November 26, 2011. Born @ 27 weeks 5 days gestation. 1 lb 15 oz, 12.9 inches long. Wow Over 3 months have passed since we brought Wesley home from the hospital, and almost 6 months have passed since he was born. Most importantly, he is healthy and doing very well. Honestly, on most days, I feel like a shell-shocked zombie. Going Home from the Hospital,. 6 lb 1 oz. Our lives seem chaotic. Some of our loved ones simp...
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Shining My Lantern: Homemade Christmas Exchange
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Thoughts on gratitude, caregiving, food, family, and finding my inner light. Thursday, January 6, 2011. I decided to put together a collection of some of my canned goods, and add some different jar mixes for soups and cookies. I found some recipes for chunky chocolate cookie mix, rainbow bean soup mix, and love soup mix. The following is what I started out with. Ingredients for Jar Mixes. JAR CHUNKY CHOCOLATE COOKIE MIX. 3/4 cup packed brown sugar. 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour. 1/2 cup white sugar. Mix unt...
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Shining My Lantern: 09/19/13
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Thoughts on gratitude, caregiving, food, family, and finding my inner light. Thursday, September 19, 2013. My Baby Boy has become a Little Man. Do you see a common theme in these pictures? If Not Running, Then Climbing. That's right. He Never Stops Moving! Here are the Big Things. That I can remember) that have happened since I wrote last:. Little Man started walking (around 18 months old).and then running and climbing, and he hasn't stopped since. Little Man started talking, just after his 2nd birthday.
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Shining My Lantern: My Liquid Gold
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Thoughts on gratitude, caregiving, food, family, and finding my inner light. Monday, October 7, 2013. Check out the current issue of Breastfeeding Today (link below) for my essay about my son, who was born prematurely at 27 weeks gestation, weighing 1 pound and 15 ounces, and spent the first three months of his life in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). View the article In the Table of Contents, click Mothers' Stories, then advance a few pages. Http:/ viewer.zmags.com/. Enter your email address:.
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Shining My Lantern: Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad: Spooner Train Ride
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Thoughts on gratitude, caregiving, food, family, and finding my inner light. Thursday, May 26, 2011. Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad: Spooner Train Ride. I just have this thing for trains. I don't know why. I am intrigued by them. This was one of the deals I blogged about on Eau Claire Consumer - dinner and a train ride for four on the Wisconsin Great Northern Railroad in Spooner, Wisconsin. And I just have to say, this was a really neat experience. 65279;. A view of the Namekagon River. The fun thin...
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Shining My Lantern: 10/07/13
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Thoughts on gratitude, caregiving, food, family, and finding my inner light. Monday, October 7, 2013. Check out the current issue of Breastfeeding Today (link below) for my essay about my son, who was born prematurely at 27 weeks gestation, weighing 1 pound and 15 ounces, and spent the first three months of his life in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). View the article In the Table of Contents, click Mothers' Stories, then advance a few pages. Http:/ viewer.zmags.com/. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Shining My Lantern: Botched 1st Birthdays, Leslie Knope, & the Speaking Universe
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Thoughts on gratitude, caregiving, food, family, and finding my inner light. Thursday, October 18, 2012. Botched 1st Birthdays, Leslie Knope, and the Speaking Universe. Sometimes staying positive is difficult. The last six months have brought one heartbreaking situation after another, for friends and family. I've stopped expecting things to be normal. What does that word even mean? But will things will ever level off. Could we get over the last catastrophe before the next one emerges? Let's hope it stays...
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Shining My Lantern: 11/10/14
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Thoughts on gratitude, caregiving, food, family, and finding my inner light. Monday, November 10, 2014. I Would Do The Same Thing. I moved back home in 2003, and shortly thereafter I started having dinner with my Grandparents on Monday nights. We continued this tradition for many years, and during these dinners, sometimes I would ask them questions and sometimes they would tell me stories about different things. Around the time of their 65. Grandma said, "Learn to stand up for yourself.". He talks mostly...
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Shining My Lantern: Subcutaneous Mass Right Leg
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Thoughts on gratitude, caregiving, food, family, and finding my inner light. Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Subcutaneous Mass Right Leg. Finally, I have to go see my primary physician anyway, so I tell her about the stinging bump. 8220;Yes, I feel it,” she says, poking at the stinging bump. “It could be a sebaceous cyst or something like that.”. She says she doesn’t have to tools to remove it, so she sends me to a surgeon. I tell him about the numbness. 8220;No,” I reply. Two days prior to the procedure, a nurse...
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