Leslielarch

  • Cooking Up the Holidays

    Cooking Up the Holidays

    Can’t help but cook up all my favorites during the Christmas Season. I am sure everyone has their favorite dishes for the season. I wanted to share my favs to spread the joy of the holidays. If you have a particular recipe you love, feel free to comment and share! Hope everyone had an amazing

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  • Taste of the Holidays

    Taste of the Holidays

    Christmas is almost here. One of my favorite parts of the season is all of the baking. There is nothing better than the smell of fresh baked cookies in the house. I have so many favorite cookie recipes it’s hard to choose. A couple staples of the holiday season are of course sugar cookies and

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  • OCMS Knows How to Raise a Ruckus

    The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium was the place to be for some boot- scooting bluegrass last night. The crowd was in their best blue jeans and plaid. The show started at 8:00pm. Marty Stuart was the opening act and then Old Crow Medicine Show came out with a bang. Their lively and spirited performance

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  • Lactose Intolerant and Cheesecake?

    I know by reading the title you must be thinking how do those two things work together. Well, I found the solution to having your cake and eating it too in this situation. And no, the solution is not to take lactose enzymes to be able to eat the cheesecake. My husband unfortunately is lactose

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  • Time flies when you’re having fun!

    Oh, the joys of being a mom! My little one is 3 months now. What an experience it has been so far! I went back to work when sweet pea was 6 weeks old. And goodness, was that ever the hardest thing emotionally I have ever had to deal with. Luckily, my husband is able

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  • New life, New Beginnings

    On March 25th, my husband and I were proud to announce the birth of our sweet baby boy. All the months before imagining what he would look like and how he would be was being answered right then. I never have felt so much joy until I held him in my arms for the first

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  • Waiting on Baby…..

    Waiting on Baby…..

    So these last couple weeks, my husband and I have been trying to be as prepared as possible for our sweet baby boy to get here. The anticipation has been driving us crazy. I’ve constantly been keeping the house spotless and organizing all of the baby items. We decided to use cloth diapers for our

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  • Words of Wisdom

    Words of Wisdom

    My mom sent me two books a couple weeks ago. I’ve had more time lately to read while waiting on the baby to arrive. They are pretty quick reads, but the messages they stated were so inspiring. The concepts make you reevaluate the way you live your life and make you change for the better.

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  • A Healthier Option: Pumpkin Oatmeal Bars

    I’ve been having such a sweet tooth lately. My normal goto for baking is chocolate chip cookies or berry pies, which taste fantastic but are so full of sugar and fat. My hubby and I have been trying to eat more healthy lately. It’s been difficult for me especially being pregnant because it seems like

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  • Gluten Free Pumpkin Dog Treats

    Recently, we found out that one of our sweet boys had to go on a Gluten Free Diet. I, normally, would make dog treats for my boys but wasn’t sure of how my regular recipes for dog treats, with a gluten free flour substitution, would turn out. I bought some of the gluten free treats

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