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Gratituesday: Election Time

November 3, 2008 by Laura 21 Comments

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Since it’s probably on all of our minds here in the U.S., I’ll take a little break from all the Website-Aversary fun to talk a little bit about election day. (But do make sure you go sign up for giveaways and grab your freebies while you’re here! Follow this link to catch them all.)

It’s FINALLY here. Is anyone else just a little bit relieved that this year’s election is finally going to be behind us?

I have felt quite uneasy about the presidential election…as I know a lot of people have. But here’s why I’m bringing it up and what I’m grateful for this Gratituesday:

God is in control. No matter what happens and who is elected to be in charge of making decisions for our country…God is in control. He is the one in charge. No power is more powerful than His. We have nothing to fear.

Any unease I feel about the election is wiped away when I remember the One loves me enough to send his son down to this earth to save me.

God is peace. God is love. God is good. He is so, so good.
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Please share what you are thankful for! I’d love to make this the biggest Gratituesday EVER (this being my Website-Aversary week and all). There are so many things to be grateful for! Please take the time to write about it on your blog and come over and link up with us so that we can all read about how God is working in your life. Read the details here…and join in Gratituesday!

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Menu Plan for the Week (With a Special Gift for YOU!)

November 2, 2008 by Laura 8 Comments

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Oh how much FUN this week full of Website-Aversary celebrating is going to be! (Did you have a slice of cake yet?) Just wait till the end of this post. There’s an awesome freebie waiting for you!

In other news, our friends who were here visiting last week have gone home. Our time with them was filled with blessing..and CRAZINESS!! My friend Deb is very…full of energy and spontaneous ideas. We were home very little during the week…and off having fun and excitement instead! Shew! It’s a good thing I’m so good at being flexible <cough>. ;)

With all of our gallivanting around…I hardly followed my menu plan last week. I know… shocking. Somehow with several rounds of concentrated controlled breathing exercises (breathe in , exhale, breathe in…) I survived the lack of schedule. Really…it was so much fun and I loved it all!

This week…we’ll be boring and stick to the menu! Oh wait…there’s nothing boring about this week!! It’s our Website-Aversary Week!! (Oh, and Matt’s birthday…I’d best not forget to also celebrate Matt’s birthday! He’s been around longer than my website. I’d like to point out that he is now as old as I am. Not that it matters or anything for you to know that. It’s not like he usually gives me a hard time about being three months older than him.) :)

Sunday, Nov. 2
Oatmeal, fruit
Roast, carrots, potatoes, gravy
Whatever we can find in the fridge

Monday, Nov. 3
Whole wheat waffles
Homemade chicken nuggets and fries, carrots
Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas

Tuesday, Nov. 4
Fruit and kefir smoothies, toast
Taco potatoes, pineapple
BBQ beef, stir fried rice and veggies

Wednesday, Nov. 5
Orange muffins, bananas
Veggie soup, cornbread
Lamb chops, cheesy potatoes, green beans

Thursday, Nov 6 (Matt’s B-day! I’ll fix some of his favorites!)
Biscuits and gravy, fried potatoes, scrambled eggs
Cheesy Turkey Sausage Stromboli, fruit salad
Chicken Fajitas, peach cobbler

Friday, Nov. 7 – Saturday Nov. 8 – We’re heading to Kansas for a quick trip to help my dad with an auction! FUN!!

And now what you’ve all been waiting for!!! Your special Website-Aversary Gift for today!! And it’s all about menu planning and being organized!!!

My friend Char who blogs over at DigiScrapChat is a very talented designer and has made – JUST FOR YOU – a whole packet of wintertime planning fun for you to download…FOR FREE!!! Isn’t she nice? Check out all this neat stuff:

She put them each in pdf format…and word format…AND jpgs…so you can do with them whatever is easiest for you!!! Here’s the link to go get the whole package. Just click on “download now” once you’re there and it’ll all be yours.

Told ya she was nice. Be sure to go check out all the other great things she has in her DelightDesign Etsy Shop too! She custom designs Christmas cards and birth announcements and all KINDS of great things!

If you haven’t grabbed your FREE Pie ebook…you can read all about that here! And be sure to take advantage of the 6 ebooks for $6 sale going on right now too!!

Stay tuned for more fun Website-Aversary Celebration! There’s a giveaway coming up next. AND…I’m going to be sharing one of my absolute favorite dessert recipes!!!
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For the Love of Pie!!!!

October 30, 2008 by Laura 16 Comments

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A thousand great big thank yous to everyone who sent in delicious pie recipes for HeavenlyHomemaker’s FREE new ebook….For the Love of Pie!

Because of you…this great ebook is filled with thirty-one recipes for pie crusts, apple pies, other fruit pies, dinner time pies and ALL kinds of pies!!!!!

Regarding a winner for the OMWTITBPIEEPie (Oh My Word This is the Best Pie I’ve Ever Eaten Pie) I decided that I couldn’t decide. (And I felt okay about that decision.) I mean…really…do you think YOU could have decided? What was I thinking when I decided to make this into a contest?

Soooo, I put the names of each person who submitted a pie crust recipe into a pie plate and did a random drawing…and the names of each person who submitted a pie recipe into a pie plate and did another random drawing. Each winner will be able to go to my shop and pick out THREE sets of downloadable recipe card packs (Which incidentally happen to be on sale right now and are WONDERFUL gifts. Download and print off as many as you want at a photo shop and package them up for stocking stuffers and bridal gifts and oh so many gifts!)

Congratulations to these winners:

Pie Crust Recipe sender-inner – Andrea from InWhiteFields

Pie Recipe sender inner – Melanie from BuildWisely

And now…what you’ve all been waiting for…..

This book is absolutely FREE to everyone and is sitting right now waiting for you in the Heavenly Homemaker’s shop! Go get yours…and tell all your friends and neighbors and sisters and nieces and hairdressers and EVERYONE to come get theirs too! Because they are FREE (forever) and they are full of YUMMY RECIPES!!!! For the LOVE of Pie!

Thank you again for all the great recipes…and happy pie making everyone!
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