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Friday Favorites: June 7
It’s Friday; the sun is shining; it’s a good day. If I’m completely honest, the sun is more than shining here in Arizona. It’s already hit the oppressively hot stage here. While the excessive heat isn’t my favorite, I had plenty of other favorites this week. Spending time with my kiddos was my hands-down favorite.
- The kids and I had some Minecraft fun. We took virtual and made it reality by building towers to destroy with Nerf guns. It reminded me of our Angry Birds party. We even had a cupcake challenge to create something from the game. I totally winged it, but somehow my creation still connected to the game.
- Started planning our ice cream social. I’ve always wanted to hostess something in addition to kids parties and now I can!
- Wing night at Native New Yorker. I tried 6 or more flavors of their hot wings. Last week, I’d never even thought about other flavors. My favorite is a toss up between the garlic Parmesan and the honey hot.
- My ANWA critique group met again. This time we had a special guest; one of my kiddos joined us and even shared a poem and gave feedback on one of the other stories.
- We made some serious progress on our Summer Bucket List! We visited a library, Half Price Books, and a yogurt shop. The kids took an art class and we made ice chalk (perfect for the heat). A week into our summer, we’ve completed six things!
- Is it vain that one of my favorites is having 21 likes for my Summer Bucket List challenge article?
- Had my new favorite chicken recipe (again) – Sweet and Sour Chicken.
- I cooked up a great family book club plan (minus the cooking) for Deadweather and Sunrise. Now we just need to find time to actually hold it. Hopefully that will happen tomorrow!
See, I told you I have a lot of favorites this week! Don’t let me hog them all, tell me what your favorites are this week.
Posted in Books, Celebrations, cooking, family, Writing
Tagged ANWA, Cupcake challenge, family book club, Favorites, Hot wings, Ice cream social, Minecraft, Summer bucket list
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Friday Favorites: March 29
Happy Good Friday! It’s a good Friday here for many reasons, including posting my Friday Favorites on Friday two weeks in a row.
- A family dinner filled with yummy food, delicious chocolate cake and good company!
- A fun coin toss fundraiser at our last Cub Scout Pack Meeting.
- Yogurt with a friend.
- After a detour with a short story, I started working on my book again. As i read over parts of previous chapters, looking for details to support what I was writing, I kept thinking how much I like the story. I’m totally excited to work on it again!
- On that note, ANWA had a WOW (week of writing). I’ve added 323 words so far this week.
- My Paper Bag Kite article over at Arizona Mama.
- I ‘hard-boiled’ eggs in the oven. It simplified the process. The kiddos were commenting they like the other way better, but I’m not sure why. I’ll let you know next week if they taste just as good.
- Dying Easter Eggs is always fun. I just wish I could start earlier in the evening, but I wish that every year.
- Today I finished reading Airman by Eoin Colfer and we had our family book club for the book. I didn’t cut it close, I had hours to spare!
How has your week been? Are you as excited about Easter as we are? As excited as I am about Easter, I’m going to sneak in another hundred words or so on my book while everyone else is occupied!
Posted in Arizona Mama, Books, Celebrations, cooking, Crafts, Cub Scouts, family
Tagged Airman, Arizona Mama, Eoin Colfer, Family, Favorites, Girl time, Hard boiled eggs, Paper bag kite, writing
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Friday Favorites: March 22
I finally made it! Friday Favorites is back on Friday! We’ve spent the week chillin’ and relaxing.
- Sleeping in! My favorite part of Spring Break, even if it’s only for a half hour or so.
- We spent a full day at the zoo. I got in over 20,000 steps and still gained weight. Just because Kettle Corn tastes good, doesn’t mean it’s nice! Oh well, we had fun watching the elephant and the stork eat, and the burrowing owls hop around. Our favorites were the monkeys running and jumping all over the place.
- I finished reading Deadweather and Sunrise. I even posted my review. Now to catch up with the other books I read this year.
- I made a huge batch of homemade rolls. I normally make these for Thanksgiving and few other times a year. This time they are for dinner with a neighbor.
How did you spend your Spring Break? Did you go anywhere fun? Try any new crafts? Finish any projects? Please share so I can live vicariously through you!
Posted in Books, cooking, family
Tagged Deadweather and Sunrise, Favorites, Homemade rolls, Spring break, Zoo
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Friday Favorites on Saturday
Friday came and went but I had some great favorites I wanted to share, even if they are a day late! It’s been a very social week.
- I had lunch with a friend at a new favorite restaurant – Cafe Zupas. It was a little rushed since I needed to get to work.
- An awesome ANWA chapter meeting and write in. We discussed the big ANWA conference that I’m still digesting. There were so many amazing classes.We also found a lot of humor through out our meeting.
- A surprise visit from my in-laws.
- Girls night out was very eclectic with sushi and gelato. It’s important to experience foods from different parts of the world. We laughed so much in Charming Charlie’s. I can’t believe so many of the ladies hadn’t been there before.
I haven’t been keeping up with my favorite blogs as much as I would like, but here are a couple recent posts that caught my eye.
- Amazing family home evening post on scripture study from The Redheaded Hostess.
- Now I can make my own peanut butter filled pretzel bites with this recipe from Two Peas & Their Pod.
What were a few of your favorite things this week?
Posted in cooking, family, Sprituality, Writing
Tagged ANWA, Cafe Zupas, Favorites, FHE, Frost gelato
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