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pebbles

Love the pebbles story....so true...sometimes I need to think of the little things instead of the big picture. Do something different, mix it up a bit! Most people believe you should look at the big picture, but then you will miss all of the outtakes. 
My pebble tomorrow is to enjoy my day with my boys. It is not very often that they are here and Lily is not. She will be at school, and the boys are off. Most of my time is spent with Lily, so tomorrow is their day....mix it up! love, k:)

scrumptious

I am here! Holidays are over and a new year has begun! 
Your cake looks better than any cake I have seen!! I think you need to start a business....no seriously. Your biscotti and candied nuts you sent me were fabulous! You could call it "Home with Heidi" or "Heidi's Heavenly Homegoods"....
love, k:)

                                             

MIA - Krista

where are you? 

my pebble today

Instead of my stand bys...key lime pie, cookie bars, lemonade pie, cranberry biscotti...I made THIS today!  The Pioneer Woman's mother in law's Christmas Rum cake.  YUM is all I can say!  I had a tiny piece this morning after I made it and decided I better have a real slice tonight as a night cap...I think we could get drunk off this cake...it's sooooooooooooooo delicious and was so easy to make.
xoxo, Heidi  p.s. this is Ree Drummond's photo...mine looked just as good, but her pic was better!

just a pebble

Another wonderful Simple Abundance "thought" - one of my favorites:

The first time you think you'd like to do something a little different from the way you've always done it - maybe bring creole shrimp stew to the potluck supper instead of your-delicious-but-predictable potato and peas casserole, you pick up a pebble.  The first time you actually do it differently - whether you're delighted or disappointed in the results - you throw the pebble into the pond.  The pebble sends out tiny, barely visible ripples of movement toward the center.  No one else notices.  But the woman who threw the pebble, or spent two hours in the kitchen cooking up simple pleasure does...if she is paying attention.

Throwing pebbles every day is my resolution for 2012.  I started early.  Today, I drove past a street, off of Monroe, that I probably have driven past a thousand times (quite literally) and I turned on it.  I've always wondered about it and now I've seen it....a beautiful street along the aboretum that I had never seen before today.

Heidi

Christmas this year at the Green's

Christmas 2011

I took a long walk on Christmas Eve morning with George.
I read two newspapers and many blogs while drinking coffee and waiting for everyone to get up.
We relaxed all day, opened gifts and actually SAW what everyone got and who they got it from.
We went to the children's pageant at church at 4 and had good seats.
We had a lovely fondue dinner at the Melting Pot!

I read the paper while drinking coffee on Christmas morning.
I took another long walk with George on Christmas day.
I took a quick drive and looked at the lake.
We didn't rush through breakfast or rush to drive up to Green Bay.
We went to see We Bought a Zoo...this is what most people do on Christmas?!  It was packed!
We relaxed all afternoon.
We are now watching the Packers.

We missed the snow.
We missed the cousins.
We missed the siblings and inlaws.
We missed the grandparents.

Heidi