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The hubs & I aren’t great planners. We’ve sent Christmas cards once in the 12 Christmases we’ve been married.  Yesterday, we started opening the gifts before we realized we forgot about the stockings. Our house was messy until the last minute possible. We don’t have many Christmas traditions, something we’d like to change and often […]

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netizen |ˈnetəzən| noun a user of the Internet, esp. a habitual or avid one. ~ The one that helped me want to snuggle R1 & R2 a little bit longer:  “It hit me in the darkness of his cluttered room that these days are numbered. Some night in the future, Little Dude will ask me […]

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…Mama finally got around to editing those Christmas pics…

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I have been thinking a lot lately about the whole idea of ‘doing what makes you feel happy.’ There’s a lot of pinning going around about being happy.  There’s a lot of people advocating (and abdicating) for a whole lotta non-sense in the pursuit of happiness.  It seems, everything from offering-the-morning-after-pill to 13-year-old girls to […]

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Usually, we get the tree up 4 days before Christmas & take it down sometime between March & August.  This year our attentive-to-details 6 yr. old insisted we did at immediately after Thanksgiving. I think we’ll keep him.

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It’s Cyber Monday & if your like me your having hard time getting anything done on your computer due to an obnoxious amount of aggressive emails boasting of their “FANTASTIC” & “AMAZING” Cyber Monday bargains. Ugh.  Sometimes, y’all it’s just good for me to be redirected like a 2 year old is redirected when they […]

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Advent, Day 1.

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The hubs asked my son what he loved most about me, so they could make me a beautiful kitchen hand towel to present to me on Christmas. The hubs had Ran draw me a picture, took notes on what Ran said, compiled, printed & ironed onto the towel. My sweet son says that what he […]

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