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$50 Your Way Giveaway March 2024!
Hello Little Peanuts!! Happy March Giveaway! Did February zip by fast or is it just me?? We’ve had a lot of new visitors here on Peanut Butter and Whine. So, let me introduce myself. I’m Connie, The Head Peanut. If your interested I recently wrote a blog post explaining how this blog started back in 2009, if you are interested. I host this monthly giveaway every single month. You get to choose the way you want your prize. Want Venmo? PayPal? Zelle? A Gift Card? You get to choose. Every month I start my giveaway with my monthly update. It’s like my little gossip UPDATE corner. (YES, I do crack myself up) I live on a mountain in Sandpoint Idaho, with a spectacular view of Lake Pend Oreille. I still can’t believe I get to enjoy this view everyday. I have an AMAZING craft room. A big ole Bernese Mountain dog named Bear. I have furry visitors from Wesley weasel. I get bears, deer that lick the craft room door, moose, elk, a squirrel named Hank. A Steller Blue Jay we named Steve. The Little Peanuts and I name everything. Even scary dolls like Winston. (WE ARE NOT INSANE!! It…
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Dinner Time!
Dinner time is a pain in my skillet. I could easily cook for my entire family. Easy peasy. Then in the blink of an eye, I am cooking for 2. ACKKKKKK!! I always make too much. Then we eat TOO much. (THEN I wonder why I’m so round??) ANYWAY!! WHINE INCOMING Whine, whine…. (have too! It’s in the NAME of the BLOG!!) Cooking for two is HARD. It sounds stupid to say that but going from a big family to just two gives me a headache. Even though I WHINE about COOKING dinner. I am not whining about dishing up dinner, sitting at the table or even putting dishes in the dishwasher or microwave. Say WHAT?? CONNIE, seriously! WHAT are you talking about? What is the point of this post?? Have you lost more of your mind?? NO!! I AM leading up to my AMAZING DISHES!!! Dowan DISHES!!! Yes, I AM OBSESSED with my DOWAN dishes. ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED!! From my go-to baking dish, to my colorful and AMAZING, colorful and PERFECT pasta bowls. I am feeling SPOILED TO MY VERY CORE with my Dowan collection!! I just added dinner plates that GO WITH MY PASTA BOWLS!!!YES, I am yelling. I…
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$50 Your Way Giveaway October 2023!!
Giveaway Time! Hello, Little Peanuts!! Happy October!! I am ONLY excited about October because of Halloween. I am NOT ready for snow. I was barely ready for the cold October wind and rain that North Idaho has gotten for the last few days. It’s cold enough to start our very first fire in the new wood-burning stove. Seriously, WHO builds a house on top of a mountain IN IDAHO (almost to the Canadian border) and doesn’t put in a fireplace or a wood-burning stove?!?! We finally rectified that over the summer. This stove is AMAZING!! THEN!! Because y’all know me and my twisted sense of humor I bought the set of SKULLS!!! The kind that goes into the stove?!!? These made me do the wicked happy laugh!! I LOVE HALLOWEEN!!! I mentioned that Halloween is my Happiest Time Of Year I decorate even though I have NEVER had a single trick-or-treater. We seldom get company ESPECIALLY during the season of the mud. (Meaning our 3-mile dirt road drive away is a mud pit of epic proportions!) Taking all the time to decorate is INSANE!! (Hello, have we met?? I fit that description!) But decorating makes me oh so happy. Now…
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Family Vacation Idaho Style!! With The Help of Winning Moves Games!
Thank you Winning Moves Games for making this July the start of THE BEST vacation! Our kids drove up to Sandpoint, Idaho to surprise The Husband for his 70th birthday. What a GREAT surprise that was! More surprising is I was able to keep my big mouth shut for an ENTIRE year!! Are you as surprised as I am?? Alice in the background didn’t look excited for a 3-day car trip. Dan wasn’t too sure either from the look on his face. HOWEVER, it was THE BEST week I’ve had in years. Activities From fishing, daughter Selena was the fishing champ with a total of 6 catches. (We did catch and release fishing). BTW, don’t you think we need a singing fish as a trophy for next years fishing champ?? Yup, it has to happen. Ebay here I come. Fishing Son Zachary was ecstatic about fishing in Idaho, he was up and gone by 5 am every morning. If you wanted to go with him, you were UP, dressed, ready to walk out the door at 5. Or you aren’t going. I did make it once. I stayed up way too late for that nonsense every day. He was easily…











