Category Archives: Our Family

The Day After

Whoever invented the slow cooker deserves some sort of Nobel prize or something. Probably for peace, since it allows the tired and/or sick mom to still make dinner without losing her patience and keeps the family safe from the terror … Continue reading

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Random Thought

If you were my husband and you didn’t know what to get me for Christmas, you could go to either Michael’s or Wal-Mart and get me just about anything from Martha Stewart’s craft lines.  Especially if it had to do … Continue reading

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Random Happenings

We have been keeping busy around here with holiday preparations and general excitement. For some of my relatives this Christmas I am making gift sets of homemade bath and body products.  For Bob’s aunt (don’t read this, Katie), who loves … Continue reading

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The Joy of Christmas Shopping

I have been doing my Christmas shopping online the past few days and all I can say is, thank you, thank you, thank you, God, for the people who invented the Internet (except that Al Gore guy). I hate shopping … Continue reading

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December Is Here

Here it is the third already and I have not posted yet.  I guess I sort of got burned out with the 30 days of posting.  That and I am sick.  Yes, again.  I just had no energy today.  I … Continue reading

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Today Was A Long, Busy Day

The Christmas tree soap tutorial will have to wait until Friday. I am exhausted. I have been on the go all day. I did 7 loads of laundry at the laundry room in our apartment complex, went grocery shopping, made … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving Preparations

Today, the kids asked me if they could have the day off, since the public school kids are off this week. I decided that it would be a good idea, so they went off to watch a movie in my … Continue reading

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What Type Is Your Blog?

Today, there was a fun little site making the rounds that allows you to enter your URL and have it analyzed to determine your Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. I ran my two primary blogs through it. It was interesting, but not … Continue reading

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Thanksgiving Soap and Cute Kid Moment

The Soap Queen blog has a whimsical soap project for Thanksgiving. (Suggestion for a substitute for the soap injector: an oral syringe, such as the type used to give kids medicine. Some pharmacies even give them away for free.) I … Continue reading

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Procrastination

This is what procrastination looks like. It looks like plants that were not pulled up before the first snowfall. It looks like a lavender plant that never got transplanted before the first frost. Procrastination. I wanted to say more. Maybe … Continue reading

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