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Random Acts of Kindness Week 2/9-2/15, Style Me Bloggers Link-Up

Dear Readers: I am a day late writing my post for the Style Me Bloggers link-up entitled Killing Them With Kindness:  Documenting my random act of kindness.  I have been really caught up in the Rediscover Me 28 Day Challenge with Alison Lumbatis and apparently have trouble balancing more than one extracurricular activity at a […]

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I Feel Pretty with GYPO

Today’s post is gonna be quick. When I ride with my daughters as they drive fast and crazy, weaving and bobbing through the big city traffic of Houston and Dallas-Ft. Worth, they both tell me to hold on. Brennyn says “hold onto your diapers, mom” as we thread our way through the streets of Dallas-Ft. […]

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Down and Dirty in the Garden at the Mustard Seed Cafe

Dearest Readers, As most of you know, one of the goals or wishes I have for my life is to rediscover who I am now that I am no longer working full time as an elementary school librarian.  You can read a little more about that from past posts here and here. I have learned […]

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Confidentially Confident Twosday on Thursday

Dear Readers, Yes, I realize the title for today’s blog post makes practically no sense until you know that I am linking-up with I do deClaire and Curly Crafty Mom for their Confident Twosday. And yes, I realize that today is Thursday but I am just getting caught up on my blog reading after being […]

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Rediscovering Me – 28 Days?

Hey, gals!!! Just a quick post to invite you to join me for the newest of Alison Lumbatis’s challenges. As you know, I spent much of last year trying to find myself since my retirement in December 2013.  I tried lots of new experiences during 2014 but never felt like I had really found the […]

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Wish I May, Wish I Might – Style Me Bloggers Link-up

For today’s Style Me Bloggers link-up, we are reflecting on our 2015 Wishlist:  What are we coveting?  I associate the word covet with the last of the Ten Commandments.  So in thinking about this post, I first looked up the meaning of the word and found that Dictionary.com gives the following definitions: verb (used with […]

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