That new room

I’ve been pokey at sharing pictures of the boys’ room, because first of all the trim work is not 100% done, and second, each time I go up there it looks like, well, a kids room—not super-neat. SO finally I just decided I’d share these pictures that I took the day they moved [...]

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What Christmas looked like

Checking out the biggest package on the heap

Sitting amid the chaos

Basking in the glory of finally getting the princess tent that Santa forgot last year

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How can you not love a man who….

…when you sit down to watch “The Italian Job” with your teenagers, he tells the kids, “Mom’s sister is in this movie.”
And he means Charlize Theron.
And, bless the man, he seriously sees a resemblance.

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Something…

…to think about.

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The Dress

So I paid for upgraded shipping and impetuously got TWO of the dresses shipped to my house — the Target one and the Coldwater Creek one. (As cute as the Overstock dress was, I just wasn’t feeling the love for the bare halter thing.) They both arrived on Christmas Eve– Merry Christmas to me! [...]

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cuteness

I just had to show you the sweet gift that our kids from Grandma. She came to our house with the back of her car packed with pillows– a new one for each child. And then she presented each child with a new pillow case. Aren’t these just the cutest pillows you’ve [...]

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Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Forgotten At Christmas

Alan Riley
My father was born on this day- December 22. For his entire life, he was always getting “combination” presents – birthday and Christmas. Every year on his birthday, there weren’t balloons and birthday streamers. His birthday decorations were Christmas trees, Christmas lights and Santa Claus stuff. When he [...]

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because hypothetical shopping turns out to be terribly fun…

..please help me some more.
Which one do you like best?
Sublime evening dress — Coldwater Creek
Black Illusion Dress –Overstock.com
Isaac Mizrahi — Target.com

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Hypothetical shopping

If a person happened to need a swanky, swirly, curvy black dress– something designed to flatter a size 12-ish figure, where might one find such a thing?
(No, I can’t tell you more. Yet.)

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Oasis

This evening I was sitting at the dinner table thinking about how tired I was. I’d painted for 8 hours almost non-stop. I was still wearing my paint-spattered clothes. I had paint between my toes, and paint in my hair and paint who knows where else. Now I was thinking [...]

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