Best Picture Films I’ve seen…

My brother, who sells stuff on ebay as a side business, came to Sunday dinner at Mom’s yesteday with boxes and boxes of dvds he’d gotten at an auction to re-sell on ebay.  He has so many he let us all rummage through and keep the one’s we wanted.  Going through all the titles  reminded me of something I’d [...]

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Catching up is hard to do…

Whew!  I’ve been pretty bad at keeping up around here lately haven’t I?  I will try to do better.  I think I’ve been going through a bit of planning withdrawal since I spent all Summer planning the big camping trip and then there was Abbey’s birthday to think about, and then figuring out her Halloween [...]

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More Birthday Plans…

Ok, Abbey’s birthday party is fast approaching and I still  haven’t settled on a cake to make…that is, if I make a cake at all.  I can tell you this, Bob the Builder and Bulldozer cakes are quite popular searches.  I can’t tell you how many people have found my blog by searching those terms.  [...]

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You know you’re a Mom when…

…after a long day of shopping at the outlets, you are midway through the almost two hour drive home when you hear from the back seat, “I try to get it out!” and look back to see your two year old with her finger in her nose.  Luckily, I am not driving, my Mom is, [...]

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Vacation Week…And Happy Birthday to Me!

Whew!  Its been a while huh?  I’m on vacation this week so I don’t have all the extra time to post that I have when I’m working (tee hee).  Let’s see…we started out last weekend with our big family camping trip.  I was definatley worried about how it might turn out, but it went amazingly [...]

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My 10 Greatest Joys…

To the right there, under Favorite Links, I have a link to a website that has blog prompts on it.  It shows one at a time and if you don’t like the one you see you click the button and it gives you another one.  I haven’t used any of them yet but once or twice [...]

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Lemonade Stands

My husband has a policy…if he sees a lemonade stand (generally manned by kids) he HAS to stop.  The cup of inevetably warm lemonade generally costs fifty cents…sometimes a quarter, but Scottie always leaves a dollar and says ‘Keep the change’ which always brings on a round of gasps and sincere ‘Thank Yous’.  Sometimes they’re [...]

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