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Pie Iron Recipes – Breakfasts, Lunches, Dinners, and Desserts

My favorite part of car camping is experimenting with new pie iron recipes.  Over the last several years we’ve had the opportunity to test out and invent a lot of recipes!  Some of these are popular recipes you have likely seen elsewhere, but some should be totally new!  A lot of these recipes used canned […]

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Nursing School Recap

Today marks my one year anniversary as a working Registered Nurse, and I still haven’t gotten around to writing a final semester wrap-up post from nursing school.  To be honest, I was waiting until I could write about nursing school without sounding negative, but 13 months later I’m just not sure I’ll ever get there. […]

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RN to BSN in 3 Months: WGU in Less than One Term

Last week I received my diploma from Western Governors University for my BSN, finally completing this path that I started just shy of seven years ago.  (That sounds crazy, but I looked it up and I took my very first pre-req in the summer of 2011.) When I proposed going back to school to become […]

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Skirt for Dr Seuss Week / Portabella Pixie Analise Pattern Review

If you have an elementary school student, you are no doubt aware that March 2nd is Dr Seuss’s birthday.  I have long planned to use the leftovers from my nieces’ baby quilts (link) for a Analise patchwork skirt from Portabella Pixie for Ellie to wear during the Dr Seuss festivities (which were limited to one […]

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I survived psych without getting shivved!

  Another bimester down, only three more to go!  I’m only 1.5 semesters away from graduation!! This bimester I was in psych, and in terms of testing and grades, it was one of the easier classes.  Once you figure out the “rules” of therapeutic communication and psych in general (who is the greatest threat to […]

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Chasm Lake Hiking Trail Review

Chasm Lake is a Rocky Mountain National Park destination that gets lots of acclaim, but at 8.4 miles, it is deservedly called a difficult hike. I was hesitant to attempt it in its entirety with the kids, so we planned a backpacking trip with a two night stay at Goblins Forest which knocked 2.4 miles […]

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