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TEX-MEX Diabetes Cooking Book by Kelley Cleary Coffeen.PHD

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TEX-MEX Diabetes Cooking is chock filled with  best healthy,  cheesy, gooey, spicy goodness  of a hearty Tex–Mex supper recipes.   From enchiladas, oozing cheese from each end, to tacos, burritos, and rellenos, up until now this is one style of cooking that’s fallen squarely in the “comfort food” category. But author Kelley Coffeen’s new TEX–MEX DIABETES COOKING: More than 140 Authentic Southwestern Favorites is the game changer that’s taken the flavors of the Southwest and made them diabetes-friendly and therefore EVERYBODY-friendly because a diabetes-friendly diet isn’t a special diet. We like people who like tacos!!!!

A Southwest culinary expert, Kelley has spent her life moving around the region before finally settling in New Mexico. Less than an hour from the Mexican border in one direction just out of site from the world-famous Hatch Green Chile fields in the other, she is at the heart of all of the action and the flavors. In her new book she takes readers on a tour of the region with more than 140 recipes that focus on fresh local vegetables, fruits, beans, cheeses rich in protein, lean meats, fish, and poultry—all with calorie, carb, and fat levels dialed-in for those looking to lose weight, manage their diabetes or pre-diabetes, and work towards optimal health. We can’t control everything, but we can control what we put in our body. Enjoy.

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Mastermind ~ Deluxe Tri-Ominos ~ Rummikub Games @PressmanToy #PowerOfPlay

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Looking for a game for the whole family of all ages. Deluxe Tri-Ominos is it. Just like playing dominos players take turns matching a tile to one that’s already in play. Extra play, extra strategy, extra fun trying to match all three sides!!

The family will love testing their code-cracking prowess and STEM skills with Mastermind, the challenging game of logic and deduction. Family members will take turns being the Codemaker and Codebreaker. The Codemaker sets a secret code, then the Codebreaker must use their smarts to unlock it. Designed for 2 players, ages 8 and up.

The Original Rummikub is a game that will bring the family together on game night all winter long. Get a four of a kind, three of a kind, flush, you know the game but this fun is with tiles!  For 2-4 players ages 8 and up.

I remember how much we loved playing these tried and true fun  games with our children and now we love playing them again  with our grandchildren.  Never underestimate the Power Of Play. Make New Memories and Enjoy!!!

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Famous Family Trees by Kari Mauge Illus. by Vivien Mildenberger #Bookworm @quartoknows

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Famous Family Trees is a wonderful introduction book  to some of historys’ most interesting people.  Explore the fascinating family histories of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Charlotte Bronte, John F Kennedy, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Maria Tallchief, and many more with 30 family trees from around the world. Because every family has a story.

This accessible, visually-stunning compendium of family trees features some of history’s most loved — and loathed — famous faces and is great fun for the whole family to explore.

Genealogy and history combine to make a fascinating, fact-filled treasury of family trees belonging to famous people throughout the ages.

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The Huddle #Dining #Macaroni

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Our day at Sleepy Hollow did not go without a Sleepy Hollow meal.  We started out to have an early dinner at the Bridgeview Tavern.  However, when we arrived at Bridgeview Tavern we were told we would have to wait two hours before being seated.   Oh, no!  We quickly turned our heels around and walked back towards the town to find another eatery.   We ended up finding, The Huddle.  The Huddle was quiet.  We walked right in, and, wondered if this was the place we should eat…  

As we reviewed The Huddle menu, we were happy to see they offered pizza.  This made my grandson, who is a picky eater, happy.  However, we quickly found out that The Huddle no longer offered pizza to eat.   SAY WHAT!  Huddle, we have a problem.  I explained to the waitress that my grandson will only eat pizza or macaroni.  Since they don’t offer macaroni, not listed on the menu, we will have to finish our drinks and find another eatery.   The waitress just calmly looked at me, and with a genuine smile, she  said, “Oh, we can make him macaroni.”  Wow!  NICE! It didn’t take them long to prepare the dish.  A plate of macaroni was placed in front of Christian and he began to gobble it down.  The plate was so full of macaroni we thought there was no way he could finish it all.   However, Christian did his little best, he ate, ate, ate it up, but, he did have a little help from Grandpa.

The rest of us ordered a pub staple.  A good old fashion hamburger, with fries.  The fries were addicting and the burger fattening good.
At The Huddle we sat, we ate, and we gathered our energy to continue the night in Sleepy Hollow.  The Huddle made up for their menu blunder, for what they took away they restored.

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Sleepy Hollow – Headless Horsemans Hollow at Philipsburg Manor #Halloween #Headless #Haunted

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Sleepy Hollow a quaint, quiet, beautiful, and strangely haunting town.  Sleep Hollow Village the town were Ichabod Crane had his infamous encounter with the headless horseman.  The fictional story, written by Washington Irving, called, The  Legend of Sleepy Hollow, aka, The Headless Horseman was the perfect choice to spend a Fall day, in October, and have a Halloween treat.

The grand kids had no idea where they drove up to.  Sleepy Hollow was just another story town.  We all had no clue has to how Hollow would get us in that spooky mood.   We had arrived in Sleepy Hollow  in the light of day, and during the day Sleepy Hollow was a bright green with nothing to fear.  Just a lot of Sleepy Hollow shine.  

But when the moon replaced the sun all the spooky came out.   Ghastly,  ghostly, scary things.  Sleepy Hollow went from sweet to haunted, in a devil’s blink.  Horsemen’s Hollow at Philipsburg Manor  Sleepy Hollow’s PremiumHaunted Attraction did the transforming.

With skulls abound and a headless horseman bridge we poked our way through.  I liked seeing the ghost of  Marie Antoinette, scudding around the town.  Had a little disagreement with my granddaughter, she kept insisting that the this lady could not have been Marie.  Ha!  Guess she didn’t know Marie  lost her head in the French Revolution which would make her appearance, in the headless horseman’s town, fitting.  A face that can scare any skull.

  It was an eating and breathing fire night.  At Sleepy Hollow, no skull is left un-turned. 

A treat- without a trick- is the best way to spend a spooky night with the family.

We had frightening fun with all the ghouls of Sleepy Hollow.

As the night darkened we headed home, thankful we were all intact.   However, we left Sleepy Hollow with stories of screams, and dying laughter.  Guess the family that scares together, stays together.  HA!