5 Tips for the Perfect Holiday

December 6, 2011

1) Start planning early. Tell your in-laws in July that you bought tickets for a holiday cruise. (holiday cruise tickets optional) 2) Make lists. I start with the one that includes the cheap asshats who haven’t sent us so much as a card in the last five years. 3) Get the kids involved. I choose [...]

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Is It Turkey Yet?

November 22, 2011

Every year while I gear up for the frantically prepare for the impending holidays, I always pull out old pictures. My mom is great about keeping photos and mementos.  In fact she sort of has “issues” with scrapbooking. Don’t get me wrong she is uber gifted and I treasure that she makes these beautiful chronicles [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Dancing With The Stars Edition

November 16, 2011

  Photo taken when I attended a Straight Talk event hosted by Invisalign http://bit.ly/nSZuXY

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Say What?

November 13, 2011

I wish I had recorder, running constantly, so I could capture what the people I birthed say. Because honestly, some of the stuff they come up with is unbelievable. Even I couldn’t make some of it up if I tried. For example, sitting at a red light in traffic while out running errands with the [...]

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Wordless Wednesday: Then & Now

November 9, 2011
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Honoring the Moments Between Milestones: Life IS A Celebration!

November 1, 2011

It’s not just the milestones but the moments between that make life the rich experience it is. I challenge anyone who has watched their child sleeping, listened to them sing into a hairbrush when they thought nobody was around, or read a note they left on your pillow saying “I love you Mommy”, to prove [...]

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Just Wasting Time

October 24, 2011

I’ve had it, with things like Pintrest and Instagram and Etsy, the last thing I needed was YET ANOTHER way to waste time online. Yet, low and  behold my co-dependency is fed once again. This time though it’s a Picnik! Somebody please save me from myself!

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Over The River and Through The Generations

October 18, 2011

When I was very young, the only trip we ever seemed to take was one that involved dressing up in fussy clothes and hoofing it to Grandma’s house for one holiday or another. Then came the year I turned twelve. The year I became acquainted with my inner wanderer on a cross-country train ride. It [...]

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Wonderfully Worded Wednesday

October 12, 2011

I love “Wordless Wednesday”. Let’s be honest, shall we? I mostly love it because it’s about the only time I can squeeze in a post here these days. It is really rather tragic that a woman who adores words as much as I, can only seem to write posts populated by few words. It really [...]

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Halloweenies

October 6, 2011

Strap yourselves in kids, I’m a gonna be gettin’ up on my soap box today. Consider yourself forewarned! SO, have you got wind of the latest “news worthy” controversy surrounding my favorite holiday, Halloween? This year it’s not the typical, “You’re celebrating evil and setting a poor moral example you pagan hood-wearing degenerates” or even [...]

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