Frugal Friday: Christmas Wreaths

Over the years I’ve made quite a few Christmas wreaths. It is a fun and easy project, with lots of room for creativity. If you already have a form from an old wreath (grapevine, green florist foam, or whatever), you can strip the form bare and start over. Or you can add [...]

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Gifts to the Future

This evening while wrapping the first gifts of the Christmas season, I once again caught myself thinking very un-Christmasy thoughts. During my first gift-wrapping session each year, with a feeling akin to superstition, I make sure to wrap at least one gift for each person in my family before I quit wrapping. Labelled, [...]

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And The Winner Is…!!!

Today’s the day–the drawing for the book, “No One Cares What You Had For Lunch: 100 Ideas for your blog”!
I made a list of everyone who’d posted Opinion Saturday on their blogs this month and came up with 35 names. My able eight year old assistant drew a name, and the winner [...]

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Works For Me Wednesday

With Christmas coming, I thought it might be fun to talk about kids and the gift-giving that they do for family members. Our tradition is to give each child a dollar for every family member and take them to the dollar store one at a time to shop for each other.
Sometimes one parent [...]

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Thanks…

…to all of you who took time from your busy lives to write nice words about my blog. I so much appreciate it.

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Swiffer Carpet Flick (and pictures from today)

I got an email awhile back from Swiffer asking if I would review their Carpet Flick. Got it in the mail the other day and was disappointed to discover one piece is missing from mine. The younger kids have had a grand time pushing it around anyway, but I think I’ll [...]

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Just a warning

If your runny-nosed toddler comes up to you complaining about the state of her nose, and you call for a Kleenex and catch both her hands in yours to prevent the dreaded swipe-it-across-the-cheek move– don’t relax while waiting for the Kleenex to arrive.
She may just lean down and in one skillful move wipe her [...]

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Sunday

Psalm 90:14

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Typepad mystery

Could anyone tell me why, whenever I have tried to reply on ANY Typepad blog all week long, instead of the comment being registered on the appropriate blog, my comment is lost and I am automatically redirected to Chookooloonks?
Now, heaven knows I love Karen, but why on earth has my computer decided to hijack every [...]

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Opinion Saturday- finally! (with links)

Hey, y’all! I am feeling just buried in holiday stuff and writing stuff and…..well, I’ll spare you the boring recitation of all I have to do. But I wanted to announce the winner for last week’s Opinion Saturday question.
Very tough because you all shared such fun ideas! Don’t [...]

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