New Shoes

Today has been fairly productive. I woke up on my own before the girls, got ready and got the heck out of Dodge. Left Billy here to feed the girls breakfast and he did pretty well. I was only gone a few hours but he managed to feed them, take them outside to play and [...]

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How to Colorize B&W Pictures

Yesterday when we were at the dollar store Emma picked out these cute sunglasses and being the big spender that I am, I indulged her. Ha ha! We came home. Cate napped. Emma didn’t, of course, so we went in the backyard for some playtime.
You’ll see below where I transformed the picture using Gimp. I’ve [...]

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Skating Queen

Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn! Burn baby burn!
Burnin’!
To mass fires, yes! One hundred stories high
People gettin’ loose y’all gettin’ down on the roof – Do you hear?
(the folks are flaming) Folks were screamin’ – out of control
It was so entertainin’ – when the boogie started to explode
I heard somebody say
Burn baby [...]

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TMI Tuesday #136

1. What lines have you used to let someone down gently.
Well, I’ve been married for going on 14 years and we lived together for a year before that, so it’s been a long time since I’ve “let someone down gently”. So long, in fact, that I honestly don’t even remember.
However, I will say I’m not [...]

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Girls’ Night Out

An old friend of mine is in town. She actually shares Emma’s birthday. I haven’t seen her in 15 years. We just went our separate ways after high school.
We found each other thanks to another friend she ran into and have been talking for awhile now via e-mails. When I found out she was coming [...]

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Emma’s Party

Emma’s birthday party was perfect. The weather was gorgeous. It was laid back as could be. It was exactly as I’d hoped her party would be. Children happily playing in the lush green grass – laughing and swinging and sliding. She was thrilled over my pathetic attempt at a Care Bear cake (I forgot Funshine’s [...]

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Sunday Secret

As a teenager and into my 20’s, I had a compulsion to pull out strands of my hair that I felt were too wiry or damaged. I’d find piles of it later and be shocked I wasn’t bald. It started when I was about 13 and went on for years and years.
I have a lot [...]

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Emma’s 4th Birthday

We had such a great morning! Up early and out of the house, we headed to McDonald’s for breakfast but not the one with the play area because the food there is nasty. This one is the best one in town and while there we ran into Shrine Circus clowns! How lucky are we? Emma [...]

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Middle of the Week

That 10 item to do list I wrote on Monday has yet to be completed. I am such a slacker. So far I’ve swept and mopped the kitchen and fed the kids, gotten them dressed and here we sit watching Sesame Street. Oh, and I took a few pictures of them and then a bunch [...]

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TMI Tuesday #135

1. How many credit cards do you own? Are they paid off?
I’m not even sure. I know we have one major credit card and several store credit cards. I tend to only use the store cards so I get 30 days interest free and pay them when they come in. The major credit card is [...]

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