I want to say a big thanks to Montessori Mama, who has given me the Kreativ Blogger award!!
You know, it feels kinda good. I needed the boost — thanks again, MM. Coming from one of the most creative of all bloggers I know, this award means a lot!
Now, on to the rules:
- List six things [...]
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Recently, the Obamas called on Americans to participate in service projects in honor of Martin Luther King Jr Day. So my son and I signed up to help at a local goods bank in our city. A goods bank is like a food bank only with furniture, clothing, etc. for needy families.
About eight years ago, [...]
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Twenty minutes to the big count down. I’m hanging out in the livingroom with our dog while my son and his friend — here for a New Year’s sleepover — are in the basement watching a movie. Said parents and little brother have gone home, leaving their sweet girl to hang out with my Bubby. [...]
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On Saturday my Grandma’s niece and her husband came to “Christmas Eve” dinner at our house. They live in Vermont and had to drive down (and back) through a snow storm to share this time with us (what nice relatives!) My son and I made the lefse right before they got there, so as to [...]
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Funny how the mind works. I’ve had that darned Christmas song, “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas” running through my head for the last few days. It’s a constant refrain ever since it snowed. Ugh.
Christmas is, I admit it, probably my favorite holiday in the whole year. Too bad every year I also [...]
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I am NOT the grammar police, okay? But, honestly, sometimes I can’t help but draw attention to signage errors. I mean, I’d want to know! I live by that Do Unto Others credo, so shoot me.
I was at the mall this weekend buying a few last Christmas gifts, when I was surprised to see a [...]
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Yes, I know that all of you American and English readers are busy eating your Lucia buns and drinking the coffee that your eldest daughter brought to you at the crack of dawn and all that. Sorry to bug you. I just wanted to wish all a happy Sankta Lucia Day.
In case you don’t know [...]
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This year, since my husband was laid off in August and had to take a job at much reduced pay, we are particulary keen to save money. Here are a few tips I thought I’d share with you:
1) Invest in LED Christmas lights. Yeh, I know, that means spending some money. But those little lights [...]
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For Thanksgiving, we went to Grandma’s niece’s husband’s sister and brother-in-law’s house. in other words, we were with family! We follow my cousin pretty much wherever she and her husband go during the holidays. They are the only relatives we have in the Northeast, and it’s to far and too costly to go “home” to [...]
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While waiting in the foyer of my son’s school to pick him up this afternoon, some of the children’s art on the wall caught my eye. I didn’t have a camera with me, so please excuse the less than ideal quality of the pictures I took with my phone camera. But these were just too [...]
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