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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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Focaccia

Focaccia is soooo fun to make esp with kids. I love getting my kids involved in cooking. The younger you get them cooking, the more love they have for it and want to do it. I started my son off at 4 years old.. today he LOVES to cook. I did not do the same with my daughter and she is really not into cooking. So, I decided any children we have going forward, their little butts will be cooking. Anytime my nieces or nephews are over, we cook together (bread, pizza, biscuits, whatever).  You Will Need: 4 Cups Bread Flour (King Arthur) 2 tsp Salt 1 tsp Sugar (honey or agava)  1.5 tsp Yeast 1 tbsp Oil (olive or avocado) 1 3/4 Cups Warm Water  Bake at 445 degrees 10-12 minutes
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Family Movie Night Game

For about a year now we have been doing this "drawing" where each person, myself, husband, son and daughter, each pick a meal theme and movie genre out of a ziplock. I got sick of this way, it felt like we were getting all the same things week after week. So, each week one person draws their movie and dinner theme then we make the menu for the whole month. Since there is 4 of us, we each get 1 day a week, normally Sunday's unless birthdays fall on that day or Holiday's. I was doing some looking online for gifts for my husbands birthday and stumbled across a gum ball machine (yes, I got him one for his Christmas gift for his coffee). I bought the machine, bought the pods (listed below) and decided to make this game instead of drawing from a ziplock. We LOVE this way a LOT more. 
Not only has this made us come together to make the dinner menu monthly (we don't do weekly, we do the whole month), if gives us down time together. We know that Sunday's is for family day only and that is very important to me. It's brought us closer together. Allowing us to try new types of meals we may have never tried before. 

I hope ya'll use this for your own family movie nights! We love it!! I am going to attach my "game" list. This is movie genre and dinner theme. 

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