Amber Hinds

Nantucket

  • Vervacious!

    Vervacious!

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    Chris has been trying to convince me that we need a different double stroller, because this one is a giant pain.  It’s wheels are super small, not at all cut out for Nantucket sidewalksand it’s barely narrow enough to scrap through doorways.For whatever reason (more that I should get into at the moment), I am…

  • Eating for $65/Week

    Eating for $65/Week

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    I get a lot of questions about what kind of food we eat when we’re only spending about $65 per week at the grocery store, so I thought I might actually record everything we ate in a week and share it with you.  Hopefully, this isn’t too boring of a post!  I thought that if…

  • Report Card

    Report Card

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    When did I last write a report card?  Weeks and weeks ago…so here’s a quick explaination incase you forgot (or are new here).  “Report Cards” are supposed to be my weekly reporting on how I’m doing with my Housewife Challenges which are my goals for myself, whether parenting, personal, or household related, and my attempts…

  • Saturday Surfing

    Saturday Surfing

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    Finds of the Week: AMERICA banner free printable, At Second Street – Love this!  It’s definitely my kind of decorating cheap, easy, and super cute.   It gives me an idea for what I can do on my front door… Efforts to Ban Circumcision Gain Traction in California, NY Times Horrifying 12-day Cool Whip Experiment, Jonathan…

  • Yep, Still Here

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    I can’t believe it’s been a week (or more!) since I wrote a real blog post.  I’ve been super busy with my husband’s family’s six-day visitWhich was lots of fun and altogether way too short, but a little hectic at times trying to match the schedule of an active family with teenagers to our toddler-led…

  • Saturday Surfing

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    Finds of the week: Cellphone Use May Be A Cancer Risk After All, All Things Considered — not the best news for those of us with ONLY cellphones… Don’t Have a Cow!, It’s Not About Nutrition — Why kids don’t need as much milk as we might think Learning to Sense Space: Why Kids May…

  • Wordless Wednesday: Fog

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  • Rhubarb Muffins

    Rhubarb Muffins

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    Adapted from Smitten Kitchen See more recipes here Here’s number two of my rhubarb deliciousness kick.  It’s an adaption of a recipe from my favorite cooking blog, Smitten Kitchen, which interestingly post just as I was getting ready to make muffins of on of my tried-and-true recipes.  I loved Deb’s description of them as “a…

  • Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

    Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp

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    Adapted from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book See more recipes here I know I haven’t written a report card in forever, and I have a million things I should be writing about, but I’ve been spending my free time with my visiting in-laws and I have two rhubarb recipes that are dying to…

  • Saturday Surfing

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    Finds of the week: 37 or so ingredients, Dwight Eschliman – a photography project of all of the ingredients in a twinkie.  The photographer says, “It’s the product of a kid that was raised to be suspicious of foods that weren’t assmbled in mom’s kitchen, and bordering on obsessive compulsive. The Twinkie is made up…

  • A Fairytale

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    Once upon a time, when I looked like this:I went to a little school called Austin College, where I met a boy who looked like this:We met the Sunday after spring break of our freshman year, when our friend Frank invited us (and a few others) to go to a crappy Italian restaurant.  For some…

  • Feels Like Summer

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    Plants are in,we’re eating things like strawberry-rhubarb crisp for breakfast,(with yogurt!),we’re lazing about in the sun,going on picnics,playing in sand,and dipping our toes in the ocean. It feels like summer!