If you have the means, but are lacking in time and resources, my friend Betty has a fabulous new Personal Shopping business. Look at the cuteness she pulled together for a 4th of July event + reunion + 40th birthday party for a friend + whatever other casual event comes up this summer. (Why yes, [...]
Laugh at Yourself
April 27, 2011
A cheerful heart is good medicine. Proverbs 17:22 The girl in the jeans with the bright pink t-shirt? That’d be me on Easter day, out in the middle of a pasture, laughing hysterically. At myself. My husband, The Coach, looking on in wonder. Again. We were in the middle of The Egg Toss, and my [...]
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Carrots and Candy
March 26, 2011
If parenting small children is anything, it’s unpredictable. Case in point… photo credit I’m a snack mom, with a caveat. Snacks are fruits and veggies. I’ll pretty much allow them whenever the kids are hungry, as long as the previous meal was eaten, which is almost never a problem. Our three-year-old’s favorite snack is a [...]
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Sound Off: Daylight Savings Time
March 13, 2011
You’d think that children who have been playing with cousins all day long and were dropped in their beds (way late) at 9:30 would go peacefully and suddenly into a long, uninterrupted slumber. Well, it’s 11:30 as I type this, and our sleep score is 2 down, 2 struggling. An overtired child does not necessarily [...]
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Good Golly, I’m Old Fashioned
January 11, 2011
As if you didn’t already know! Last week my husband sent me an article about 20 Things that Became Obsolete this Decade. Obsolete?! I must have missed the memo. While I embrace the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and nearly all things internet, here are 10 things I’m struggling to release to the past. 1. VCRs [...]
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