Amazon Prime Rocks

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    I started this long post about Christmas and which gifts for the girls were big hits this year. I decided not to post that one, at least not yet, because, well, it hasn’t even been a week since Christmas. So, how can we even really know which gifts are true hits or misses [...]

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The Truth About Santa…

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First of all…SURPRISE! I’m actually updating my blog. No one faint, okay?  We are several days past Christmas now and I’m finally sitting down to write a post that’s been on my brain for several weeks, actually. (This photo was taken at our church’s Home For the Holidays celebration in December.) Over the summer our [...]

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Five

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Our baby girl, Mariana, turned five yesterday.  It’s surreal, really, because it seems in many ways like she was just born and in other ways it seems like we’ve been a family of four forever. Five is such a cool age. It’s that “no longer a baby, but still a little kid” age. She’s still [...]

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Happy Mother’s Day

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Today has been a great Mother’s Day for me. I “slept in” and got up at around 7:45am. Mickey and the girls gave me a great new flat-iron which I have really been wanting and was HAPPY to receive! I was taken out to breakfast at one of our favorite places. We went to church [...]

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MaceMallows

Macey has to do an entrepreneurial project at school. She has to come up with something homemade to sell. So, she decided on marshmallows. Homemade marshmallows, of course.  When she told me about it, I was pretty excited because I love to cook and create new things in the kitchen. I also enjoy working with my girls [...]

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WHO Wednesday

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In keeping with yesterday’s fashion post, I decided to do something that I think is fun for today’s WHO (What’s Hot Online) Wednesday post. Less than a week ago, many of us were glued to the television watching the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. While I could write many a post on [...]

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