Almost There

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Whew… vacation is less than a week away!  I am headed to Niagara Falls (here I come, Canada readers!) and couldn’t be more stoked. To you guys, I’m always on vacation.  What can I say?  Running a blog and working full time is hard.  I know there are many who do it a lot better than me… but it is what it is.  More good stuff coming soon, I promise!

This Mother’s Day was a tough one to get through without Mom around for the 5th year… but it turned into a nice day and I’d like to just try and keep remembering her as best I can… What a lovely mom she was!  She really always wanted to make sure my brother and I were having an awesome childhood.  I consider myself blessed that she was about to attend my college graduation and be there to call my whole family to tell them that I had been proposed to by an amazing guy.  I know she is still watching over <3

Mommy

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Stress and Such

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Pond Photo @ Happywifey.net

Lately I’ve been under a lot of stress from a variety of sources.  Some is good, some is awful… but this evening, I am trying to tell myself that “this too shall pass” and that things will work out.  We’re taking a week off to go to Niagara Falls.. very exciting stuff happening here!  I’d like to thank those of you who are still visiting from time to time.. I love sharing my stuff here and hope you like reading, too.  Mike made a homemade cherry pie tonight, but sadly we gobbled that up (with some help) sooo that won’t be making it on the blog.  I promise we’ll share the next attempt!  DELISH.

In the meantime… here is what I’m loving Around the Web:

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Saturday at the Farm

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The weather this weekend in NJ was INCREDIBLE.  We do have a lot of nice weather in the spring.. but it never happens that the whole weekend is nice from start to finish.  Mike and I decided (okay… I found a nice place to go and told him ‘sweetie…we’re doing this’) to go check out a farm at one of our county parks.  We love to picnic in the park!

Longstreet Farm is a great place – they teach kids a lot about farming “back in the day.”  This weekend, they were having sheep herding and shearing!  The sheep didn’t like the shearing very much.. but here they are being herded (dog not pictured!):

A Trip to Longstreet Farm @ HappyWifey.net

Mike is pretty good with our camera!  Run, sheep, run!

Folks could also get a wagon ride around the farm and park… but we decided to walk around Holmdel Park instead and find a nice area to picnic.

A Trip to Longstreet Farm @ HappyWifey.net A Trip to Longstreet Farm @ HappyWifey.net

I won’t lie, we were probably the only couple there who did NOT have a small child with them.  I was prepared to tell anyone who asked, that we either A) just really like sheep or B) were just scoping out future parental wins.  I guess we know where to go! I hope everyone in the area took advantage of the nice spring weather.  Looking through my weekend photos always makes the work days better!

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Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup with Kale

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Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup with Kale @ HappyWifey.net

I knew before making this recipe that I may, indeed, be the only one in my household to eat this soup.  Well – you guessed it… it went just as I thought.  The good news is that my leftover soup is waiting eagerly for me in the refrigerator and freezer!  I knew I would love this soup just as soon as I read through the recipe (which is here).  

You must think I am the laziest blogger around.  I should re-type the recipe for you here… but honestly?!  I didn’t change it up!  OKAY – I did swap out regular sausage for turkey sausage (I just took it out of the casing).  And I added just a touch of red pepper to the broth.  AND I used only kale instead of kale AND spinach.

MAKE this soup!

Sausage and Sweet Potato Soup with Kale @ HappyWifey.net

I think this soup tastes like a BETTER version of Olive Garden’s Zuppa Tuscana.  I love that it tastes creamy… but does’t have any cream!  The sweet potatoes make it delicious and noodles make it hearty.  I found those cute little noodles at ALDI – they are 100% semolina noodles.  Mmm.  Thanks to Tracy @ Shutterbean for a great recipe.  I couldn’t get this one out of my head until I made it!

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Exciting Stuff

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If you haven’t noticed any changes around here, I have a bit of exciting news:

I’ve been accepted into the BlogHer Publishing Network! Check out of my profile here.

I’m still learning about it, but am generally pretty excited!  I found BlogHer through a variety of blogs I follow (Clean Mama, to name just one!) and really like the idea of a network of women blogging all together and supporting each other.  Very cool!  I hope to be able to contribute some nice comments and posts over there, as well as house the TV Influencer program here to see if anything comes of that :)  I’d also love to do some reviews in the future… so we’ll see where this leads!  I’m so happy that you’re here… thanks!

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My Attempt at Paper Medallions

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I’m both a fan of Vera Bradley AND The TomKat Studio.. so I definitely didn’t miss the cute DIY Paper Medallions they featured when this photo popped up in my news feed:

Here they are… I’m super proud of them!

DIY Paper Medallions @ HappyWifey.net

I made these for my Light the Night Team Kickoff Party and really fell in love with them.  The tutorial featured on The Inside Stitch was super easy!  I didn’t have a fancy paper punch for the design around the side, so I just used my decorative scissors to shape the outside.

These decorations take 2 sheets of 12×12 scrapbook paper, and another paper of the same color so you can punch out the circles for the center.  You’ll also need the circle punch and a hot glue gun.  To make the folding easier, I used a paper scorer.  Check out the instructions in this post.  Thanks to The TomKat Studio for teaching me a cool new way to make decorations with unlimited potential.  Who wants a party next?!

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