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I, among many other women, was invited to be a part of the launch team for the new Seamless Bible Study by Angie Smith. I'm super excited to see the stuff they put out for us to share. So I'll be putting some up here occasionally too. Angie's book about her daughter Audrey really helped me start to heal after losing our baby the Christmas before we had  Asher. I read it and cried and cried but it helped. So I'm excited to see what this brings for a small bible study as well. She's so approachable.  Stay tuned!  #Seamlessbiblestudy 

I discussed this in depth with Coach and on facebook but I'm still irritated.  I bought an old serger off a facebok buy/sell/trade over a year ago.  I love it.  It was perfect, and I really loved the way it serged (sergered? no idea).  But the knives (if you don't know what a serger is, check this out and it'll kind of explain why those knives are important) are dull.  This wouldn't be a problem if I hadn't totally become accustomed to using it for a wide variety of things I never thought I'd want it for. I got spoiled. Then I also tried to find new needles for it.  They don't exist unless you special order them.  Aka $$$$$$$$$$$. So I put it off hoping I wouldn't break one.  Then the knives stopped cutting through much and then the machine would jam up as the fabric got stuck.  This almost ruined a custom order dress or two.  So I got frustrated. I spent the hour I got alone Tuesday as Coach took the kids to the park making random phon...

I really struggle with Friday's during lent, it's just not at the forefront of my mind to remember to not eat meat. And fish is so expensive these days. Lloyd can also put away a shocking amount of shrimp, so making that every week is $$$$$. I found this recipe online, edited with what I had on hand, and it worked really really well with my egg substitute. And quick. Super quick to throw together.  Tuna Cakes Makes about 10 patties 2 cans tuna, packed in water 1 cup cooked, mashed sweet potato 1 Tbsp homemade ranch dressing mix 1 tsp capers 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp pepper 2 tbsp butter, melted 1 1/2 tsp homemade egg replacer , mixed with 2 Tbsp of boiling water Preheat oven to 350� and spray a baking sheet with oil. Mix all ingredients together with your hands until well incorporated, but careful to still keep the tuna in good sized-chunks.  Using a medium sized ice cream scoop, or your hands, place rounded balls into baking sheet then flatten lightly. Bake 20-25 minutes until g...

Other than a few food posts I haven't really been here since I finished up Asher's first year. Whoops, my bad yall. For some reason the spring has been flying by.  Probably because it's soccer season and I can barely find my own children under the piles of laundry Coach creates during season. On game nights he makes a solid load of dirty, damp, smelly clothes the second he walks in the door. Good heavens the laundry. And soccer laundry mildews it's so damp from being out in the cold and muck. Our poor washer. I'm glad appliances don't have feelings. And we have had some crazy ice/snow weather down here that has kind of disrupted our normal routines and by the time we get back into a good one it happens again. Examples: I'm trying to think of what we have even been up to and other than being giant children with crazy appetites, I can't think of much.  I've been embroidering more and waiting for another busy wave of sewing orders to hit. Graduation mem...