Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Oct 20, 2009, 12:10 pm
I’ve been homeschooling for a fairly long time; we’re in our 8th year.  In the beginning, it was difficult to tell people.  I wasn’t very confident and was just muddling through so...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Oct 16, 2009, 11:34 am
So, remember the other day when I made roasted potatoes and onions with scrambled eggs for dinner? Well, the day after I bought the bag of red potatoes, I got a bag of organic potatoes in my organic b...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Oct 15, 2009, 7:06 pm
Please welcome my very good friend Joanne Greco, who is not only a terrific writer, but a wonderful advocate for unschooling and adoption.  Her experience and strength are a great resource to me and ...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Oct 9, 2009, 6:17 pm
I am not a breakfast person; meaning that I’m not ready to consume solid food till about noon.   I do however, love breakfast food, so sometimes we have breakfast for dinner in my house. There&...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Oct 8, 2009, 1:43 pm
Recently I became a contributor to Blissfully Domestic and while familiarizing myself with their guidelines for posting, I came across a terrific article about how to create more compelling blog posts...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Oct 7, 2009, 2:52 pm
Ok, this is hard.  I’ve been languishing in sorrow for over a week and it’s time to snap out of it.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that grief is a bad thing and should b...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Sep 29, 2009, 2:20 pm
In September of 2004, we decided that it was time to get a dog.  We knew that we’d only consider a rescue dog and we thought that it would take lots of visits before we found the right dog.  W...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Sep 29, 2009, 5:11 am
The winner of the Sabra, 4 VIP coupons for free products plus a $25 Master Card gift card is… *insert drum roll* Megs! Watch your email Megs! We need an address. Thanks to everyone who enter...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Sep 28, 2009, 4:56 pm
Today I went to a local martial arts studio to sign my son up for classes.  I had done my due diligence and checked them out online, looked around for pricing and Googled them to see if anyone was ta...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Sep 25, 2009, 3:50 pm
I love cauliflower… Raw. Cooked? Not so much. Until this. Roasted cauliflower is the most delightful treat. A terrific substitute for french fries. The trick is to make sure it’s com...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Sep 10, 2009, 2:45 pm
Sometimes when you have a refrigerator full of beautiful produce, you forget that you have to defrost a protein occasionally. And when you forget to defrost said protein, you’re forced to make s...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Sep 9, 2009, 8:41 am
Last night I was going to make a pasta dish with a goat cheese sauce, heirloom tomatoes and arugula.  Very similar to this.  I had two beautiful zucchini that had to be used and my daughter, who nor...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Sep 6, 2009, 6:23 pm
This week in my organic produce share were some gorgeous beets.  Having never cooked beets before and not being a fan of the awful, pickled variety, I was really looking forward to dipping my toe in ...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Sep 5, 2009, 6:28 pm
When I was a little girl, I spent an inordinate amount of time at my grandmother’s house.  Her mother, my great grandmother, who we called Little Nana, lived in an apartment upstairs that she s...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Sep 2, 2009, 2:07 pm
In our ongoing effort to remove as many of the chemicals and preservatives from our diet as possible, while still being more frugal, I decided to make my own granola.  I collected a ton of recipes fr...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Aug 26, 2009, 7:38 pm
Can you stand to read one more time while I wax rhapsodic about the buying club? This week, we had some beautiful squash, delicata squash.  I’d never heard of it before, but they were so pretty...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Aug 25, 2009, 11:26 am
I didn’t mean to take the entire summer off, really I didn’t.  What was meant to be a brief hiatus, a couple of weeks at the most, turned into the entire summer.  Then that move took a l...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Aug 22, 2009, 9:03 pm
I have a fridge full of beautiful, organic produce and I’m picking more up on Monday, so I’m sort of forced into getting a little more creative, stepping out of my comfort zone in an effor...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Aug 20, 2009, 4:43 pm
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…… Ok, last month at the house I used to live in.  I read a post written by a woman who had too many business cards that she didn’t use up ...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Aug 15, 2009, 8:30 am
Look at this beautiful bok choy!  I got three bunches of it in my organic produce share this week. The plan was to grill it a little to carmelize it, then grill some chicken and toss it with soy sau...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Aug 14, 2009, 11:34 am
Much has been written about the whole Kelly Clarkson airbrushing fiasco and I really don’t have much to say that hasn’t already been said about this ridiculous situation, but I had to make...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Aug 14, 2009, 7:48 am
I’ve been toying with the idea of joining an organic buying club and the “horror kitchen” of the last house, among other things kept me from jumping in when I finally found one that ...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Aug 12, 2009, 3:47 pm
So remember when I bought the bread maker? Well, I have been having quite a bit of fun with it!  The machine came with a book that has a lot of recipes in it, but I have a better source… This ...
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Christine S. posted an article on ColorMePink! - Aug 9, 2009, 9:24 am
For quite some time, I’ve toyed with the idea of making my own bread.  Increasingly, the options in the supermarket seem to be there just to annoy me.  Why yes, I am the center of the universe...
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