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Gifts You’ll Feel Good Giving: The Blended Blog Gift Guide Blog Hop

Ho, Ho, Ho!! So glad you are joining me for The Blended Blog’s Gift Guide Blog Hop.  Welcome, if you are coming by from visiting with Joy at Quilty Joy Joy.  I hope to share with you my gift-giving guide for gifts you will feel good giving. If you don’t have on comfy shoes, you […]

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Happy Thanksgiving from My Table to Yours: Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving, friends! I’m as full as a tick, as my Missouri mama would say.  While I didn’t completely clean my plate – the one in the photo above is actually PC’s  – I didn’t leave much for the dishwasher at Bob Evans to do. Which reminds me of a little joke… What do you […]

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Failed Hijacking Attempt and Hello from the Blue Grass State

Hello, sweet friends! Taking a few minutes this Sunday morning to send you hugs of hello from Lexington, Kentucky.  The selfies above are of a sleepy me on the second leg of my early morning (6:30 am) flight to the Blue Grass state. I am here, visiting this lady. My 88 year-old mom. She is […]

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What I’m Doing Currently: A Choose Happy Link-Up, #11

Hi friends! Can you  believe we are half-way through the month of November? Thanksgiving is almost here and Christmas, just around the corner. Not sure how that happened.  Likewise, it seems like I went to sleep a young mother one night and woke up a grandma.  Not sure how that happened either. I am linking […]

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Let’s Eat: Skinny Chicken Salad

Hey, gals! ‘Tis the season of eating good and good eats. I am seeing recipes for soups and chilis on all of the blogs I follow.  Decided I better get on the bandwagon lest you think I don’t cook over here (feel pretty sure you know I eat). PC and I are truly trying to […]

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First Monday’s Month in Review: Rewind October in Numbers

Hey Gals! Hope you won’t notice that today is Tuesday, in fact, if I don’t type fast it will soon be Wednesday (didn’t type fast enough because it is Wednesday now!) but either way, not the first Monday of the month at all.  I know my secret is safe with you, though. We are talking […]

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