“You do my laundry like once every 2 months, Mom.” “That’s not true. I just did a load from your hamper last week.” “Listen, Mom. I KNOW what’s true. You take FOREVER to wash my stuff.” What’s sad is that I can’t really argue with Abby. Today I just happen to remember last week’s load. [...]

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What do you think of our raised garden? Looks pretty good, huh? What’s that? Where exactly is it? Why, on our back deck, of course! As we entered our first spring here in the new house, we’ve had to rethink our kitchen garden. The house is south-facing, which means the front yard is really sunny, [...]

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The dogs still don’t know where our yard ends. Oh, they don’t wander off; the invisible fence collars keep them well within the boundaries. What they do, is bark. And bark. A lot. At anything they can see (which includes the neighbors, minding their own business in their own yards). And even though we always [...]

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So yesterday, I mentioned that my local Publix had failed me in my search for Brachs or Sweethearts candy hearts. As I wrote, I was not pleased. Because I love me some candy hearts. But at the same time, I wasn’t too worried; after all, I’d be out at Target later that night and could [...]

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Happy Day After Valentine’s Day. I hope you enjoyed your celebration of the holiday. Unless you don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day, in which case I encourage you to at least take advantage of all the half-price candy sales today. (My grocery store was OUT of candy hearts this morning. I was peeved.) We celebrated here with [...]

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Lessons learned in the past two weeks: There’s this thing called photography…  Starting January 30, our GREAT friends Simon and Ally have been visiting from England. I say GREAT friends because they’re really more like family. We love them. We love their kids, who are close to the ages of their kids. Our kids love [...]

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They’re calling me. From all the way across the house in the kitchen. In the pantry. Behind the flour bin. Candy hearts. Charlie can’t understand how I can be so addicted to Sweethearts. According to him, they’re nasty. And I honestly can’t explain my attraction to chalky bits of flavored sugar. But if you give [...]

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I thought I was pretty “with it.” After all, I’m a blogger – that’s current. I’m a social media manager – that’s still cutting-edge. I’m on Pinterest and Google+ and LinkedIn and Twitter. I watch YouTube videos. Unfortunately, my kids have led me to understand that I don’t watch ENOUGH YouTube videos. Of course, in [...]

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