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I Am Watching You
The Maid
Hopeless
It Ends with Us
Unmissing
The All New Ball Book Of Canning And Preserving: Over 200 of the Best Canned, Jammed, Pickled, and Preserved Recipes
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
Jurassic World: The Official Cookbook
Halo: The Official Cookbook
Ugly Love
Verity
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Moonlight Child
Becky: The Heartbreaking Story of Becky Watts by Her Father Darren Galsworthy
Freed
Drowning in Stars
Behind Her Eyes
The Girl in the White Van
Regretting You
Defending Jacob


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Protein Chocolate Chip & Blueberry Bagels

These are soooooo good! My kids ask me to make these ALL the time. Esp my picky eater, she loves them!! Def can add whatever you want to them, or as toppings. I love mine with either plain or strawberry cream cheese. Yum! I know what I am making this week! No judging, our microwave broke and we decided to order new appliances, these were just old and needed to go, had them for 8 years. I LOVE our new appliances!  Funny story content: I was making mini corndogs and the stupid muffins would not stop crumbling! I was pissed and kinda sorta hit the pan on the side of our counter until it dented! oops.  My son, the one speaking, loves throwing that in my face. 😀  You Will Need: 2 Cups Flour 1 tsp Salt 2 tsp Baking Powder 1 tsp Cinnamon 1 Cup Greek Whole Milk Vanilla Yogurt 2 tbsp Honey  Chocolate Chips/Blueberries (I used frozen wild ones, thawed) Melted Butter, brushed on top before cooking. Cook 400 degrees for 10-15 mins or until golden brown. 

Homemade Christmas Tree Ornaments

What do you do when you have children who are bored and need crafts to do for Christmas? What do you need to decorate your tree? Ornaments! Why not mix the two, and let your children create amazing, fun, easy, fast and entertaining dough for the tree! I have two different types you can use, both smell great! As they cook in the oven, I am left with the smell of apple-cinnamon pie smell, and it is driving me to hunger mode! Oh My Goodness! So GOOD!! The tree will smell amazing, no doubt!
You can also take these dough's and use them to make your child (children's) hand or foot prints and hang them on the tree with the year!
# 1: Cinnamon-Apple Glitter Dough:
1 Cup Apple Sauce
1/2 Cup Cinnamon
2-3 Cups Flour
Glitter
All ingredients in bowl
Directions:
1. Throw all your ingredients but the glitter in a bowl, and mix with a wooden spoon. Continue mixing until the dough is no longer wet looking {like below}, add more flour when wet. Add glitter, as much or as little as you like! The more the Merrier! Turn onto a floured surface {VERY VERY FLOURED} and knead a couple times, roll dough and cut with cookie cutters. Poke holes in the tops and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper {unbleached or bleached does not matter here because you are not consuming these!}
To wet here, add more flour


Over flour surface, so you have flour to work with if too wet
2. In a preheated over at 300 degrees, bake for 2-3 hours; you want these to be hard, that is how you know they are done. 
#2 Salted Glitter Dough:
2 Cups Flour
1/2 Cup Salt
Glitter
3/4 - 1 Cup of Water
1. Like above, mix all, roll out, cut with cookie cutters,poke holes in the tops for the yarn and bake at 300 degrees for 2-3 hours. You can also paint the tops, but why would you want too when they have beautiful glitter on them!!



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