2009

5 Things… I know won’t be done by Christmas

by Julie Meyers Pron December 21, 2009

cookies won’t be freshly made for santa (due to that minor problem of the broken oven). Hey! I hear he likes Rice Krispie Treats, too! Big still won’t have newbedding because I haven’t found one I like for the price I like. Poor kid. His blankets are seriously falling apart. I won’t have finished holiday [...]

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Whip it up Meat Sauce over big tubey noodles

by Julie Meyers Pron December 17, 2009

Yes, really. This is what we called Monday night’s dinner. When our dinner plans fail us, the huz and I challenge each other to “whip something up.” And so, being failed by a “faulty” (ha!) oven, I was challenged to “whip something up.” Ingredients 1 pound ground beef EVOO 28 oz can crushed tomatoes 1/2 [...]

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Send a Warm Fuzzy and help 1-800-FLOWERS donate $5,000 to Toys for Tots

by Julie Meyers Pron December 16, 2009

The Chester County Moms Holiday Extravaganza was so inspiring that I now find myself drawn to Toys for Tots promotions, collection boxes, even signs with their logo. I just never realized before how important this organization is. Hearing about the 9,000 children who are signed up to recieve toys this year just in Chester [...]

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Dinners when living life without an oven

by Julie Meyers Pron December 16, 2009

Hopefully my lack of recipes has now been explained in the post below. You see, I’m without an oven this week. And while I often don’t use an oven, not having one at all has thrown me. In fact, I when I prepared my menu and shopping list for the week, I planned on meals [...]

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Life without an Oven, part 2

by Julie Meyers Pron December 16, 2009

There really is no part 1, officially. Had I been blogging 7 years ago (did people blog way back then?) there certainly would have been. So, lets make the puffy cloud outline this part of the story, as we travel back in time to part 1. We moved to our newly built home in October [...]

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Congrats to our recent winners!

by Julie Meyers Pron December 15, 2009

Jill C won a 4-pack of tickets to Disney on Ice: Let’s Celebrate in Philadelphia this month. Want to go? We’re taking our kids as a holiday gift, and you can, too. To get discount tickets order your tickets from ComcastTix with coupon code MOM. You’ll get four tickets for $44 for Monday-Friday matinee shows, and $4 [...]