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Friday Favorites: Long Weekends and Good Music

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Style Imitating Art: Textile Sample, ca. 1920

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Friday Favorites: Insomnia and Color ID

Happy Friday, everyone! I hope y’all had a great week. Mine was exhausting. I go through bouts of insomnia, where I start to exist on about 3 or 4 hours…

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16 August 2019
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Style Imitating Art {Roundup}: Textile Sample, ca. 1920

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28 August 2019
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Friday Favorites: Aging Gracefully and Shopping While I Do It

  Happy Friday, everyone! I hope you’ve had a great week. Things here have been busy, but in a good way. I think. LOL We’re gearing up for the beginning…

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9 August 2019
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    Shoe Style Saturday

    2 July 2011 / 8 Comments

    “Take me with you,” they whispered seductively from the store shelf.

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    Congratulations to the Newest P&G Manager {In the Family Room}

    30 June 2011 / 20 Comments

    Today the hubs is officially a manager at Proctor & Gamble.  And the kids and I couldn’t be prouder of him and his accomplishments. When the hubs and I got out of the Army 15 years ago, we didn’t know what we were going to do or how we were going to support ourselves, the only thing we knew was that our family had to stay together.  We decided to move to the hub’s hometown in Pennsylvania.  He’ll dispute this factoid but our intended term was for a period of no more than 5 years; we’ve been here for 15 years… At the time, I was pregnant with baby number…

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    Crazy Days of Summer: Light

    30 June 2011 / 22 Comments

    A picture I snapped of my husband as he was walking through an underpass.  Quite possibly one of my favorites… Two years ago, our best friends were married at the beach. The bride was playing in the water at the end of the ceremony when I snapped this picture… This was taken in Texas a few years back.  I’m a librarian, so it’s only natural that I would find a bar called “The Library”. This was also taken at the beach.  The water and sky were so blue, so perfect.  They were almost indistinguishable… Crazy Days of Summer Photo Challenge is hosted by Alicia of Project Alicia and Kristi oflive and…

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    Today I Said “Good~Bye”

    30 June 2011 / 5 Comments

    I remember how nervous I was when I first went to the campus for my interview.  I wasn’t sure what to expect ~ would everyone be nice, would it be one of those stuffy interviews where everyone asks questions and no one smiles or would it be relaxed and informal.  I went in prepared for the worst and hoping for the best.  It was better than I expected and by the end of the day I had a job offer. That was almost ten months ago.  Today I had to say good~bye.  Have you ever met someone and thought Wow, I can’t believe we just click like this?  Well, that’s…

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    10 Books in 10 Weeks: A Summer Reading Challenge

    28 June 2011 / 8 Comments

    I’m almost certain PBG over at Dirty Pretty Thangs didn’t mean for her post, 10 Books in 10 Weeks:  Our Summer Reading Challenge to become a challenge beyond her own household but it did.  I’m joining her for 10 Books in 10 Weeks, which began for her on 20 June and will end on Labor Day.  Since I’m a couple of days late ain’t that always the case with me? I’ma start the challenge just as soon as I get home from work today and go from there. My four choices for 28 June to 20 July are: My four choices for 21 July to 21 August are: My two choices for 22…

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    What Has Brought You Joy?

    28 June 2011 / 2 Comments

    My girls are my pride and joy.  Don’t get me wrong, I like the boy too.  I mean, he is my son and all but there’s something about hanging out with my girls that brings me so much joy.  I can say that because I know the boy doesn’t read my blog but the girls do and if they try to tease him with this post, it’ll backfire because I’ve already texted him and told him that he’s my favorite.  He knows the deal… On this particular day, the girls and I had decided to go walking along the Back Mountain Trail, a nice little path that winds through the mountains where we…

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    Shoe Style Saturday

    25 June 2011 / 4 Comments

    A few years ago, a friend of mine sent me a postcard that said:  “Change your shoes, change your mood.”  I thought it was absolutely brilliant.  Whenever I put on these shoes, I feel young, flirty and fun.  I don’t wear them often, just enough to remind myself that there’s still a young, flirty and fun woman under all the mom stuff… Do you have a pair of shoes that are mood changers? To participate in Shoe Style Saturday, all you have to do is take a picture of your shoes post them to your blog hit the link leave a comment visit other participants So, come on and show…

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    Crazy Days of Summer: Yellow

    24 June 2011 / 14 Comments

    JOIN ME FOR SHOE STYLE SATURDAY It’s a fun meme all about shoes. For more information, click here. I’m not a gardener but somehow these beauties have managed to grow.  They look like little bursts of sunshine, I smile every time I see them… PS I’ll have one of my favorite yellow items posted tomorrow, so be sure to check back! Crazy Days of Summer Photo Challenge is hosted by Alicia of Project Alicia and Kristi oflive and love…out loud.  It will run from 3 June to 26 August and is open to everyone. Each Friday (posts will go live at 12:01 AM) participants are encouraged to share their favorite images inspired by…

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    Reading the Bible in 90 Days: What I Learned

    23 June 2011 / 8 Comments

    Around November 2010, my mom (an evangelist), and I were talking about bibles and the various translations and their readability, when she told me that she had one that she wanted to send me to read.  Inwardly I groaned.  Growing up, my mom’s not~so~subtle questioning of my salvation had always been a sore spot with me.  In fact, I’d say that it directly led to my rebellious phase.  So when the Bible arrived, I left it in the mailing envelope, on the corner of the dining room table, touching it only to move it from place to place so the family could eat our meals… Around the end of December,…

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    There’s No Place Like Home

    21 June 2011 / 6 Comments

    Oh, Dorothy, truer words have never been spoken… We finally made it home at 9:45 last night.  To read the beginning of this journey, go here, I’ll wait...  Well, no, we made it to Wilkes~Barre, Pennsylvania at 9:45, we didn’t make it to our house until after 10:30.  Yes, a journey that started at 6 AM (3:30 if you count the wake up at the hotel) ended at 10 something last night. So why were we trapped in the black hole of airports also known as O’Hare International?  A weather delay.  Personally, I’m started to think the whole delay in Chicago thing is a conspiracy, it’s a test of patience,…

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