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Winter 2025 Bucket List and Goals

Hey, ladybugs🐞!! I am excited to share my Winter 2024 Bucket List and Goals because we did pretty darn well on our autumn bucket list and fall goals. Hoping to continue that good energy and momentum into this new season and new year. Carrying over a few activities that we started last ‘year’ but didn’t […]

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Categories: Life Style

Tell Us About 12.2024: Going Green

Sweet potatoes – thank you for joining me for this month’s edition of Tell Us About 12.2024. Our December prompt comes to us from Rosie Amber who suggested we write about going green. Somehow, I missed the word ‘going’ when I first began thinking about the post, instead focused on the word GREEN. Which is […]

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Categories: Craft and Create, Life Style, Living Life, Reviews and Reflection

Update Autumn 2024 Bucket List and Fall Goals

  Morning glories, happy to share this first update to my Autumn 2024 Bucket List and Fall Goals post from earlier this season. Happy to share it because we have actually done some of the things on my list. Forward progress has been made!! And now that I am a little more mobile with this […]

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Categories: Life Style

Where Bloggers Live 11.2024: Let’s Go Mimis

Welcome friends to today’s post, Where Bloggers Live 11.2024: Let’s Go Mimis. Confused by that title? Let me explain. The word ‘mimi’ is Spanish slang for sleep. It is derived for the Spanish word for sleep, dormir. And is similar to saying nighty-night. I first heard the term mimis when we moved to El Paso; […]

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Categories: Life Style, Reviews and Reflection

Tell Us About 10.2024: Schooldays 2.0

****I published this post earlier this afternoon but somehow half the post was deleted from the version that I published. I DON’T KNOW HOW THAT HAPPENED. GRRRRR. Maybe the Universe’s way of editing my word count?? Anyway, I wanted you to have the WHOLE post so I am republishing now, with the rest of the […]

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Where Bloggers Live 09.2024: Showing Mother Earth Some Love

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening!! Thank you for stopping by for this month’s edition of Where Bloggers Live. Today the gals and I have been asked to share ways in which we are eco-friendly. For years now, everywhere we’ve gone, I have tried to pick up 3 pieces of trash. Sometimes I pick up […]

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