Friendly Friday 9/10/10


Welcome to Friendly Friday!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog too! Just click “Get the code here…” at the bottom of the list. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way for everyone to get even more traffic to their blog.

Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Christi at Frugal Novice, Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your family-friendly link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping!  Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. We would love for you to also grab our Friendly Friday button and post it on your blog and/or in a post – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Spotlight on Friendly Friday Followers! We love your participation and want to show it! In addition to gaining followers, each week we’ll select three blogs at random and will feature links and a write-up for those blogs in the content of next week’s Friendly Friday post. There are so many seriously wonderful blogs out there, and this will be a great way to highlight some of those each week. Say hello to the lucky chosen 3 for this week (and feel free to stop by and give them a little extra love):

If you’re looking for great crafts, recipes, child-rearing tips and fun ideas to try with your kids, Holly at The New Hampshire Nanny has them all. With 20 years of nanny experience under her belt, it is no wonder that each of Holly’s posts feature great pictures and clear instructions – and make her readers want to run straight for their art supplies or to the kitchen!

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When it comes to a blog that makes you feel right at home, Steph at Sharing the Pages of Life knows how to make her readers feel welcome and keep the conversation going. As well as writing about her beautiful family and sharing pictures of her gorgeous daughters, Steph includes a spiritual aspect to each of her posts that will make you want to take a moment and worship right alongside her.

By taking “A brief look into life, going green, recycling & saving money,” Anne at Mommy Has To Work shares a great collection of tips, reviews and giveaways for products for all aspects of life. From cleaning to music to decor to food, you’ll find this working mom has an item that can help in your efforts to go green and along with her adorable children, she’ll show you how.

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Tasty Tuesdays: Powdered Sugar Cookies

My mother-in-law’s favorite sugar cookie recipe is a special family recipe!  She’s been making these cookies for years and got the recipe from another relative.  My m-i-l needs to gain weight so I suggested we make these cookies while we were there visiting this summer.  I don’t know if she gained any weight….but I definitely did!!  Oh well, now I remember why I rarely bake cookies.

These cookies are soft and yet delicately crisp at the same time.  They’re rich tasting and melt in your mouth.  They should be rich tasting considering they have one cup of oil and one cup of butter (the Pioneer Woman would like all the butter in these!)  In my opinion, I think these cookies would be great to serve at a wedding or baby shower, especially if rolled in colored sugar to match the colors of the shower.  They’re definitely not healthy so really these should be just special occasion cookies.  Here’s the recipe:

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1 cup sugar (plus extra sugar to roll the cookies in)
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 cup butter
  • 1 cup canola oil
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon cream of tartar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • Colored sugar for special occasions

DIRECTIONS:

Combine the sugars, butter, oil and salt.  Beat well with mixer.  Add eggs.  Add dry ingredients.  Chill dough.  Make into balls, roll in sugar, and place on ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes.

Here are the cookies we made at my mother-in-law’s house.  Wish I could take one off the plate right now!



Menu Plan Monday 9/6/10

To those of you here in the states, happy Labor Day!   Today will be just the two of us (hubby and me), and we’ll be using the time to get some things done.  Here’s our menu for the week:

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MONDAY:  Salmon Patties, black eyed peas, salad  (I know, not the traditional Labor Day food)

TUESDAY:  Leftover salmon patties, Fresh Corn Salad, green beans

WEDNESDAY:  Scrambled eggs with onion, green bell pepper, and cheese.  Tomato wedges drizzled with olive oil, salt & pepper, Ezekiel Bread.

THURSDAY:  Chicken pasta, salad

FRIDAY:  Leftover chicken pasta, salad

Friendly Friday 9/3/10


Welcome to Friendly Friday!

Remember, YOU can host the link list on your blog too! Just click “Get the code here…” at the bottom of the list. The code is different every week, so be sure to get the new code when hosting Friendly Friday on your blog. Hosting the list is a great way for everyone to get even more traffic to their blog.

Thanks for joining the Friendly Friday celebration hosted by Christi at Frugal Novice, Xenia at Thanks, Mail Carrier and Charla at Healthy Home Blog! We invite you to join us every Friday to make more friends in blogville, get more blog followers and follow other great blogs out there.

To join in the Friendly Friday celebration, include your link in our list, follow the hostesses in the first 3 spots and then start blog hopping! Visit other blogs on the list and comment to give them some blog love. Then take a minute to follow them through Google Friend Connect – this is a good way to keep up with other blogs, but also lets us show support to each other! Please DO NOT list your giveaways here, links must be to either your homepage or your Friday posting with your blog title. All others will be deleted.

When people comment on your blog and let you know they’re a part of Friendly Friday, return the favor and follow them back. This way everyone gets traffic and followers out of participating, and it’s a win-win situation. We would love for you to also grab our Friendly Friday button and post it on your blog and/or in a post – the more bloggers that find out about Friendly Friday and participate, the better!

Spotlight on Friendly Friday Followers! We love your participation and want to show it! In addition to gaining followers, each week we’ll select three blogs at random and will feature links and a write-up for those blogs in the content of next week’s Friendly Friday post. There are so many seriously wonderful blogs out there, and this will be a great way to highlight some of those each week. Say hello to the lucky chosen 3 for this week (and feel free to stop by and give them a little extra love):

Sara at Our Breezy Beach Life lives in Florida with her husband and young daughter who they consider the most precious gift they’ve ever been given. Sara works full time but is able to work two of those days from home. She shares personal stories in her blog as well as pictures of her family and recipes such as Monkey Bread and a frozen strawberry dessert that looks so yummy.

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Alexandra at Ma, what’s for dinner? lives in Connecticut with her husband and three young sons. Alex enjoys cooking with her children and hopes that her site and cookbooks will be a catalyst for other families to cook and bond together in the kitchen. Her cookbook, Ma, what’s for dinner?, has kid-friendly recipes and 15% of all proceeds benefit Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), the number one genetic cause of infant death.

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Karen at Crazy Mama Karen has three children, ages four, three, and one.  She and her husband work opposite shifts, so her days are long and crazy but she wouldn’t have it any other way!  Karen loves to spend time with her family, bake, try new things, read, and write on her blog.  She enjoys writing about life stories, lessons learned, tips, crafts, product reviews and giveaways as well.

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Little Things Make a Difference

There are a lot of people who are having a hard time right now.  Maybe they are out of work and are wondering how they’re going to feed their children.  We know of several during the past year or so who have gone into work to a job they’ve had a long time, only to find out they no longer had a job.  And think of those down on the coast who might need an offshore injury lawyer.  There are also those who are grieving the loss of a loved one and those who are separated from their loved one who is in the military.

As we go about our daily life and encounter people, we don’t know what they’re going through.  A smile, a kind word, a thoughtful gesture or a random act of kindness might make a difference in their day.  We never know how some little thing we do might help someone having a hard day!