Or, why Bart is wasting away before my very eyes. Or a post with many many headings. Or the longest post I have ever written. Or why I should not write subtitles. Prepping for the Grand Shopping Trip: First, both of my local grocery stores send out their fliers on Wednesdays. One of the stores (Randalls) has excellent sales, but…
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What I Did on Saturday Night
Once upon a time it was Mother’s Day. You may remember that I don’t actually, you know, have children and therefore am not a mother (not that such a detail stopped me from taking a bag of chocolates when they handed them out in church for all the mothers). That detail also did not stop Bart when our good friend…
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Mother’s Day
Over Christmas break, Merrick, Landen, and I did some tricky things in order to get us all in the same city on the same day (we managed to find a single three hour window). The reason for all the sneakiness was that we wanted to take some pictures of the three of us girls for our mom for Mother’s Days….
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Grocery Shopping
Did you wake up this morning thinking, “I wonder how often Janssen grocery shops?” I thought so. You know how, on occasion, you make some small-ish change to your life (“I’ll start getting up 10 minutes earlier and eating breakfast” or “I will clear off the kitchen table every night before I go to bed”) and it, no joke, changes…
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Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
9 of 10: For a girl like me, raised on Little House on the Prairie and Caddie Woodlawn, Hattie Big Sky was like finding a long lost friend. This is a slightly more grown-up version of those books, but still retains the same feel. I loved Hattie Big Sky from the first moment to the last. Hattie Big Sky by…
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