A Little Story About a Van

Let me tell you a little bit about this van.
It’s green.  It is the extended cargo version so it can practically hold a whole soccer team plus their gear (it has a little soccer ball hanging from the rear view mirror and is decorated with soccer stickers on the back window so I assume it’s [...]

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Download Day – My Birdie

I was working on some invitations this weekend for a meeting where I made a puzzle for our theme and attached a piece to each invitation – then the person brings the piece with them to the meeting and the puzzle gets put all together (“everyone is important” object lesson to kick off the meeting [...]

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Less Is More

First of all, thank you.  Your comments and tips and suggestions are encouraging.  It’s interesting how each person’s situation can be so different yet our solutions all revolve around similar strategies with individual tweaks to fit our own needs.  Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and expertise with me and each [...]

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Download Day – Hang in There

I admit.  Last week was a little rough for me.  I don’t think my hormones are back to normal and I found myself in the parking lot of Arby’s crying before going home on Wednesday.  It just springs up on me – as I’m sure it does with other new moms – this sense of [...]

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Hanging Out in Mom’s Office

I mean seriously, does it get any better than this?

Coleman J, that smile of yours rocks!  You can hang out with me anytime you want.
XOXO
Mom

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Precisely Why

The annoyance and hassle and frustration associated with Jason’s car accident this weekend is precisely why I am doing my Project 365 centered on the theme of gratitude.
Being grateful is the great adversity neutralizer – it’s as simple as that.  Gratitude softens the blows of life’s challenges and helps me remember that it’s not as [...]

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Download Day – I Am Woman…

We had some trouble this weekend.  Jason was in  a car accident – he was the only one in the car and is not hurt.  Don’t worry.  But his handicap-accessible van that he was driving is not so fine.  We’re not sure yet if the insurance company will declare it totaled or not, but either [...]

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I Never Thought…

It’s 12:00 am on the dot.  I just checked my clock as I found myself awake instead of still asleep after a glorious 10 pm bedtime.  I woke up thinking about Cole.  Not worrying, just thinking.  In my mind I was seeing his mad face, where he crinkles up his forehead (click here for a [...]

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Giveaway Winners + A Little Gratitude

Wow!  What a great response we’ve received regarding the fabulous ideas for taking meals to people.  Thank you, thank you for posting!  If you have any more ideas then please continue to post so that we all have a place to go for our info.  I have learned TONS and don’t feel so much like [...]

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Download Day – A Little Something

What a weekend!  Such fabulous meal ideas!  You’ve gotten me excited enough to even print some recipes out – and I am not a recipe collector, to say the least.  So many of these are manageable and easy – and the ones that seem a little tricky are so intriguing that I have to try [...]

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