Summer reading comes and goes for me – sometimes I’m reading a book almost every day and then I’ll go a week or two and hardly get through a page. I stayed up late this weekend finishing a book and it just felt so good to really be IN a book. Of course, I’m always listening to audiobooks, both on…
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This post is sponsored by Tuesday Morning, a store I’ve been visiting since I was a little girl! Birthday parties for children can be tricky! My older girls attended a birthday party for a classmate a few months ago that included an indoor petting zoo AND ponies dressed up like unicorns including rainbow manes and glittering horns. I am in…
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I am a lifelong magazine lover. We had several children’s magazines subscriptions when I was young and I eagerly anticipated those arriving in the mail. Now my girls are equally into children’s magazines. Hardly a week goes by where they don’t check out at least one or two from the library and they routinely ask for magazine subscriptions for their…
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So maybe I’ve mentioned once or twice how I love saving money. You know how sometimes you get emails that are all “Save 50% off at Old Navy!” and then there are only about three things that are really on 50% off and they’re all DOG collars and SWEATERS for dogs? And you still have to pay shipping. And tax….
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For nearly the past 20 years, my parents have done one-on-one trips with each of their children. My dad and I went to Washington DC and Milwaukee, and my mom and I went to New Orleans and Portland and Seattle. (I wrote a whole post about these kinds of trips here). This year, though, we decided to switch to an…
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