Linda @ Linda’s Lunacy

What’s for Dinner?

December 13, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

Saturday – pizza night – Pizza and breadsticks

Sunday – soup & sandwich day – Homemade Bean Soup with challah bread

Monday – chicken – Baked Chicken, baked potatoes, green beans

Tuesday – beef – Dinner at church for the girls, leftovers for the guys

Wednesday – super simple – Pasta with Red Sauce, carrot sticks

Thursday – chicken – Turkey a’ la Mama over rice

Friday – Friday Night Fire/Beef – Roast, potatoes & carrots in crockpot, challah bread

For more Menu Plan Monday ideas, visit I’m an Organizing Junkie.

This Weeks Blog Hops

December 13, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

These are the blog hops I’m participating in this week. Blog hops, as well as Twitter & Facebook hops are a lot of fun, and a great way to find new blogs. It’s also a great way to increase your followers on your blog.

If your visiting Linda’s Lunacy for the first time, Welcome. I hope you can stay and visit for awhile!

Please come back on Saturday, for my new blog hop, Sunny Saturday! You can link up your blog, Twitter, Facebook, Networked blog and your shop! Hope to see you on Saturday!

MONDAY

TUESDAY

The Coupon Challenge and Mom on Dealz

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Fun Follow Friday

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

Thanks for stopping by to visit! Hope to see you again soon!

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine

December 10, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

The Old Schoolhouse® is committed to serving your bundles of joy who are growing up into fine boys and girls, men and women, and with that commitment in mind, we have an announcement of their own—the arrival of six New Homeschooler Bundles™—six collections of handpicked products and resources for brand-new homeschooling parents.

The Old Schoolhouse® wants to serve you by providing you with resources

that will strengthen and mature your “roots.” TOS is confident that these Homeschooler Bundles™ can help you thrive. Each of the Homeschooler Bundles™ represents a value of at least $500, but TOS is offering them to you for only $99!

The Old Schoolhouse Magazine is the only homeschool magazine that I subscribe to. We’ve been homeschooling since 1991, and I’ve read all the homeschool magazines at some point over the years, have even had subscriptions to most of them. But The Old Schoolhouse Magazine has the most information and help all in a beautiful magazine. If you homeschool, or are thinking about homeschooling I highly recommend this magazine. If you don’t homeschool, but know someone that does, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine makes a great gift that any homeschooling family would appreciate.

Until midnight PST on December 31st, you can save over 65% on a subscription to The Old Schoolhouse Magazine. And get free gifts, too!

There are three subscription packages to choose from:

Option A: Purchase a one-year subscription for just $7.95 and receive your choice of any TOS digital Planner for free!

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Option B: Purchase a one-year subscription for just $19.95 and receive a Cranberries & Cream Homeschooling with Heart tote bag, and E-Book: Cranberry Christmas for free.

Enjoy great savings on The Old Schoolhouse Magazine with the holiday Cranberries & Cream subscription sale

Option C: Purchase a two-year subscription for just $37 and receive a Cranberries & Cream Homeschooling with Heart tote bag, any TOS digital Planner, and E-Book: Cranberry Christmas for free.

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Everything Christmas – A Book Review

December 9, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

Everything Christmas is the ultimate Christmas book. This book has everything related to Christmas.

Don’t let this books small size fool you. It’s full of useful and fun information. I think everything that you could ever want to know about Christmas is in it. From the history of Christmas and the songs and traditions of Christmas to how Christmas is celebrated around the world. Including what they eat for Christmas dinner is 11 different countries.

Everything Christmas has Christmas Scriptures, poems, Songs, Carols & Hymns, Stories and Traditions as well as Christmas Trivia and Humor all at your fingertips.

Since Everything Christmas has everything about Christmas, there are lots of recipes, Christmas crafts and decorations and gift idea lists. Wow! That’s everything!

As if that wasn’t enough, the book is organized into a daily reading format, for every day in December. An excellent way for the entire family to learn more about Christmas together. Of course, you don’t have to read it a little each day. I didn’t. To make things easier, the book has an awesome index (6 pages!), making it so easy to find what you look for.

I really loved Everything Christmas. I have found so many useful ideas in this book that we have been able to incorporate into our Christmas celebration. The kids are making one of the craft items for Christmas presents. I can’t say which, as people who will be getting the gifts read here. 🙂 I have also had fun quizzing my family with the trivia questions.

Everything Christmas is a hard cover book with a beautiful paper jacket. It’s smaller size makes it handy for referring to not just at Christmas time, but all the year through as your preparing for Christmas. The pages inside are gorgeous. They are tinted an eye pleasing color, making the text easy to read. It really is a beautiful book, which makes it a great Christmas present.

You can see a sneak peek into Everything Christmas, this is a pdf, so it takes a couple of minutes for the images to load. See what I mean about the tinted pages? I love them.

I hope you enjoy Everything Christmas as much as I did.

*This book was provided for review by the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group.

Potato Latkes

December 9, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

yummo!

I like applesauce AND sour cream!

For more pictures, visit Wordless Wednesday,
Wordless Wednesday at 5 Minutes for Mom ,
Say “Cheese” at It’s a Blog Party
A Beautiful Mess,
Live and Love Outloud,
Attic Girl
Shibley Smiles
Angelica’s Awesome Adventures
The Florida Hogans
The Life of Rylie & Bryce, too
Mama to 4 Blessings
Wordy or Not So Wordy Wednesday

Also visit Homeschool Snips & Tips
Thrilling Thursday

Applesauce Gingerbread

December 7, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

I have made this for a couple of years now, and it’s so yummy!

Applesauce Gingerbread

1 cup melted butter
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 cup molasses
2 large eggs
1 cup applesauce
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preheat oven to 3508. Grease and flour a 9×13 inch baking dish.
Combine melted butter, brown sugar and molasses in bowl. Add eggs, one at a time.
Stir in applesauce and beat well.
Sift the flour, baking soda, ginger and cinnamon into the batter. Mix thoroughly.
Pour into the prepared baking dish and bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes. Turn out out a wire rack and cool completely.

We serve this with whipped cream. It’s sooooooo good!

My notes:
I don’t sift the dry ingredients, I don’t own a sifter (gasp!). I usually leave the cake in the pan (double gasp!) and serve right from my glass baking pan.

Sorry, no picture today! 🙁 I had to cook for Ladies Bible Study tonight, I’ll make this soon, and get a picture up.

I printed this out a few years ago. I’m pretty sure I found it on another blog. In the notes on my print out, it has Texas Cooking Online link to this recipe. I’m fairly certain I’ve never been to the Texas Cooking Online website before today. So I decided to go ahead and post the recipe and include the link. I’m not trying to steal their recipe. 🙂 So go see if there are any other Texas recipes you might like. 🙂

For more recipes, visit:

Homemaker Monday

Market Yourself Monday

Mouthwatering Monday

Tempt My Tummy Tuesdays,

Tasty Tuesday

Tuesdays at the Table

Delicious Dishes

Talent Tuesday

What’s on the Menu Wednesday

What’s Cooking Wednesday

Whatever Goes Wednesday

What’s Cooking Wednesday

Homemaking Link Up

The Ultimate Recipe Swap at Life as Mom

What’s on Your Plate?

Cooking Thursday,

Friday Food

Food On Fridays.

Saturday Sweet Shots.

Just Something I Whipped Up

Spotlight Yourself

Finer Things Friday

Thursday Recipe Spree

Jasmere

December 7, 2010 by Linda @ Linda's Lunacy

If you’ve never heard of Jasmere before, your missing out!

Jasmere is a really cool shopping site, where they seek out specialty retailers and offer you great products at a discount.

So what’s so different about Jasmere?

They only offer one product at a time, for 24 hours. You just visit the site, and decide if the product is something you would like to buy. The best part is, when you buy, they don’t charge your credit card right away, they wait until the end of the sale to charge you. Why do they do this? Because the more people that buy, they lower the final price! How cool is that? Jasmere does all that with no membership required!

Visit Jasmere to read more about How Jasmere Works. Because the sales change daily, you’ll want to like Jasmere on Facebook, and follow Jasmere on Twitter so you don’t miss anything!

Thank you Jasmere for being a sponsor of Linda’s Lunacy for the Holiday Gift Giveaway Hop.

*Disclaimer – Jasmere.com was a sponsor of Linda’s Lunacy for the Holiday Gift Giveaway with a $25. gift certificate to their site. I did not personally receive anything from Jasmere. My opinion of their site is my own.

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