Mamma Kerr

The One-Minute Writer: Today's Writing Prompt: Pet


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Today’s Writing Prompt: Disagree

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This week's Twin Tuesday QOTW is:

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What’s Easter without an egg hunt?

My five year old twins look forward to their annual Easter Egg Hunt. Hubby and I like to hide a mixture of decorated hard-boiled eggs, chocolate eggs and other Easter novelties around our back garden. However, living in Scotland, we have once had to resort to Plan B and hide the eggs around the house instead, because it was a wet and windy Easter Sunday.

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It’s Thankful Thursday!

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This week’s MckLinky theme is to share a favourite recipe. I thought I’d share one of my favourite dishes with you. It’s Pasta Al ‘Arrabiata with a morish meaty twist! I love adding smoked sausages to a hot and spicy Arrabiata sauce. You can use whatever pasta takes your fancy. I like to use fusilli or penne.

Mamma’s Meaty Arrabiata Pasta
Serves 4

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Another week, another Mamma Guilt Monday.

Today, Mamma Kerr is eating humble pie.

Yesterday, I turned the house upside down looking for my daughter’s shoe. The girls were getting ready to go to a Birthday Party and they needed to put on their shoes. My heart sank when I realised that there were just three shiny black shoes lying in the corner of the livingroom.

On closer inspection, I found that we had 2 size 9′s and only one size 8, so it was Rachel’s shoe that was missing. (Yes, my twin girls have different sized feet!)

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The MckLinky Blog Hop theme for this Monday is “Snow Pics and Stories“. With many places getting their “once every hundred years snow”, MckLinky thought it would be fun to see our snow pics and hear about the snow in our areas.

I live in Scotland, UK, and we have experienced our coldest winter in more than a generation.  The British media has dubbed this winter as “The Big Freeze“.

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I’ve never really been a big fan of bees. I actually have a phobia of creepy crawlies, bees, wasps, etc. Since becoming a parent five and a half years ago, I have had to conquer this phobia somewhat. I certainly don’t want to pass on my irrational fears to my daughters. Therefore, I have developed nerves of steel when confronted by the little critters.

Still, it would have been quite inconceivable ten or so years ago, for me to consider writing an article about saving bees.  However, that is what I am finding myself doing today, as part of a campaign on Bloggers Unite.

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Life is About Two Questions
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Life boils down to two questions:

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It’s Twin Tuesday again, and I’m posting on TUESDAY this week!  Yay!!

The Twin Tuesday QOTW, courtesy of Jennifer Miller of Twin Happy,  is:

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Seeing as it’s Shrove Tuesday (AKA Pancake Day!) I thought I’d share a yummy pancake recipe with you. I found this recipe on MckLinky.Com, courtesy of Cheri Peoples, and I plan to try it out later…

Please let me know whether you tried it, and how you enjoyed it!

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What to Do with Christmas Dinner Leftovers

Guest Post by Jen Malik

It’s fun (well, for most of us…I think!) to have the entire family together for a Christmas dinner. You share good food and good times on that special day of the year. But, what happens to the food once the meal is over? Well, I’ve got 8 ideas for you and hope they’ll come in handy.

- Make soup. Soup is a very comforting and warming dish when the temperature begins to dip. Using chicken or beef broth, you can use your leftovers to make some chicken noodle soup, turkey noodle soup or even beef stew.

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Easy Christmas Dinner Ideas

Guest Post by Jen Malik

I’m looking forward to coming around with a few thoughts over the Christmas holiday while our resident blogger, Annette, takes a well-deserved break. I welcome your comments and ideas. I love this time of year and hearing about other people’s ideas and traditions.

So let’s get to the heart of the matter here. Christmas is in 2 days (one if you celebrate on Christmas Eve!), so dinner’s gotta get get done. Everyone thinks of the traditional ham or turkey with all the trimmings as the must-have meal, but it’s a lot of work.

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I would like to apologize for seemingly neglecting the Fine Feathered Nest blog over the summer months. This has been due, in part, to technical problems in early summer, when I was without my laptop for a while. I then went on holiday to sunny Florida and had the school holidays to keep me busy! Recently I [...]

I would like to apologize for seemingly neglecting the Fine Feathered Nest blog over the summer months. This has been due, in part, to technical problems in early summer, when I was without my laptop for a while. I then went on holiday to sunny Florida and had the school holidays to keep me busy! Recently I [...]

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WOW!!! What women doesn’t want a new handbag for FREE?!? Check out the new site http://www.handbagplanet.com/. Here you will see a huge array of gorgeous ‘arm candy’ up for grabs today.  Choose your favourite bag, and register your selection for a chance to win.  You can increase your chances of winning, by spreading the word [...]

Hi everyone! I have a serious clutter problem. I live in a modest three-bedroomed semi-detatched house with my husband and four year old twin girls.  There are several reasons why I live in a cluttered home: My house is full of children’s books, toys, paintings and drawings.  I run two party plan / direct sales businesses [...]

Hi everyone! I have a serious clutter problem. I live in a modest three-bedroomed semi-detatched house with my husband and four year old twin girls.  There are several reasons why I live in a cluttered home: My house is full of children’s books, toys, paintings and drawings.  I run two party plan / direct sales businesses [...]