From the monthly archives:

January 2008

Adam and I bought our house in the fall of 2005. After renting for eight years I looked forward to having my own home to decorate. It has been three years and we have still not hung pictures. Ironically, one thing that made this house feel like a home when we first saw it was [...]

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Until this week were were a healthy household. Paul broke our healthy streak when he woke up coughing on Thursday. I’ve got a stuffy nose and some congestion. But the award for sickest member of the family is Adam who is currently wrapped up in three layers of clothing and his winter hat and he [...]

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I recently received a lotion called Gloves In A Bottle to sample and review. The package arrived in the mail on Christmas Eve while my family was visiting to open gifts. I invited my mom and sister to try a sample too. We each applied Gloves In A Bottle to our hands and arms and [...]

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Secret Diary Unlocked is primarily written to tween and teenage girls. The author, Suzy Weibel writes openly about her own insecurities as a teenager. Each chapter includes actual experts from Suzy Weibel’s 7th grade diary. The topics include boys, girlfriends, parents and self-esteem. One thing is obvious, Suzy Weibel is passionate about helping girls realize [...]

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I’ve just finished reading Sky Blue by Travis Thrasher. To be honest with you, I put off reading this novel for several months. For one thing, it is thick. A book had better be good if I’m going to commit to reading almost 400 pages. The second deterrent was when I lent my copy of [...]

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A couple weeks ago I did something very uncharacteristic of me… I signed up on a blog (that I had never read before) to participate in a travel swap. I’ve noticed that many blogs host swaps – book swaps, craft swaps, Christmas ornament swaps and even a Valentines Day Goody Swap but this was the [...]

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