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Happy Birthday M!

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Happy Birthday M!

I can’t believe it’s M’s birthday again! Each year it seems to come around faster and faster! He’s becoming a teenager this year and I’m in denial. In fact, I’ve been completely avoiding the topic because I get teary whenever I think about it! I’m not sure how it’s happened, but it has!

Happy Birthday M!

Dear M, 

You’re 13 today!  I don’t know how it happened!  (Funny, I started your 11th birthday letter the exact same way!)  It’s official that you’re a teenager and I’m not dealing well with it!  You, my sweet, brown-eyed boy, are such an amazing kid!  6 years ago when I joined your family, I would never have imagined what a place in my heart you would have!  And really, you’re not a boy anymore, you are definitely a young man!  And a  young man I’m so proud of!  

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Recipes

Italian Egg Salad Recipe- A Creamy Twist

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Italian Egg Salad Recipe- A Creamy Twist

I love hard boiled eggs, which results in loving most egg salad!  Recently, I developed a love for this Italian Egg Salad recipe and I’m so glad that I discovered it.  It’s refreshing and simple, yet full of flavor and delicious!

Italian Egg Salad

Why Egg Salad

My Grandma P made THE BEST egg salad I remember ever having!  Unfortunately, she was killed in a car accident when I was 11, so I never got to write down her recipe and of course, like many grandmas, she never did document it.  So, no matter how hard I’ve tried in my adult years, I can’t recreate it, so I’ve stopped trying!  Instead, I decided to come up with my own delicious egg salad.

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10-Week Wellness Challenge Update & A Giveaway

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10-Week Wellness Challenge Update & A Giveaway

I can’t believe that we are almost finished with the 10-Week Wellness Challenge!  It seems like only yesterday that The Iowa Food & Family Project invited me to join their team!  I was so excited when they did and I had such high hopes of blowing it out of the water this year!  HA!  Well, then life happened!Wellness Challenge

I’ve struggled with being healthy for the majority of my adult life!  I’m, what I call myself, a coping anorexic!  If you look at me today you wouldn’t guess that to be the case, but it’s true!!  You see,  being healthy has several different definitions.  Obtaining a healthy lifestyle depends on your own personal situation.  For me, being healthy is finding a balance with my eating and exercise.  All of this, along with “life” during the 10-Week Wellness Challenge has gotten me to these realizations:

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Recipes

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

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Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

Just when we think Spring has arrived in Iowa (70 on Monday), Mother Nature proves us wrong (8 inches of snow on Sunday). So, while I was wallowing in the turn of the weather, I decided to whip up a batch of my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread for the boys and myself! It’s one we all enjoy because really…who doesn’t enjoy a warm sweet bread loaded with chocolate chips?!

Baking Up Goodness

There seems to be nothing like the smell of freshly baking bread in the oven when you’re dreading the impending snow storm!  We all know there is nothing like snacking on a warm sweet bread straight from the oven either!  There are probably hundreds of pumpkin chocolate chip bread recipes and while mine is nothing unique and there is nothing that sets it aside from the others, it’s pretty dang good, a classic, and super easy to throw together!

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Friday in Franklin County: Active Family Chiropractic – Sheffield

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It’s been awhile, I know since we had a new Friday in Franklin County, but I’m super excited to introduce you to Active Family Chiropractic in Sheffield!  I didn’t grow up receiving chiropractic care, but after popping a rib head out several years ago and working with Dr. Hickman in Hampton and a massage therapist, I’m a firm believer now!

In the years since I’ve been to several doctors including Dr. Hickman and Dr. Claussen, who used to have an office in Sheffield.  When Dr. Patrick Trenary opened his chiropractic clinic after Dr. Claussen closed hers, I was hesitant to try anyone new again!  But, now after visiting this unassuming office on mainstreet in Sheffield and having access to a clinic just a half block from my office, which held great appeal, I haven’t looked back!

Dr. Patrick Trenary was an aircraft mechanic in the Marine Corps before he was a chiropractor.  When he left his military life, he knew he didn’t want to pursue that career any longer and a longtime friend of his was going to chiropractor school.  After spending time talking with his friend, it felt like a natural fit to him.  Dr. Trenary says, “When you address issues with the frame, function will return.  When the function returns, the issues that you were having, ie: pain and discomfort, will go away.”  And boy is he right!

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Recipes

Creamy Parmesan Pork Chops

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Creamy Parmesan Pork Chops

Do you ever have a random “ah-ha” moment when trying to figure out what to make for supper, well that’s exactly how these Creamy Parmesan Pork Chops came to be! No need to stand at the grill in the middle of Iowa winter to get a juicy flavorful pork chop with this recipe!

But first, an update!  Life has actually slowed down for our family!  Most of you know by now that we live sports season to sports season during the school year and we are in that happy month-long sabbatical from sports currently!  It’s the down-time between basketball and track! (Don’t worry, our first track meet is March 14th, so it’s literally only a month long!)  This means with less running, we get more time at home, more time together as a family!  T and I spent a warm 4 days in Branson a couple weeks ago.  We took R and a friend to an Iowa State basketball game recently, while M and I have played many games of Skip-Bo!  It’s all been bliss!

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Travel Adventures

Danna’s Bar-B-Que & Burger Shop: Branson, MO

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Danna's Bar-B-Cue

We Love Branson

Who doesn’t love some good barbecue?!  And who doesn’t love a quaint locally owned joint?!  That’s exactly what you get at Danna’s Bar-B-Que & Burger Shop in Branson, MO!  The options of places to eat in Branson are endless, but you can never go wrong with a visit to Danna’s! Whether you want a juicy burger, pulled pork, or smoked chicken, you won’t go away hungry!

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