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December 22, 2019

My Holiday Home Tour, 12.2019

Welcome, sweet friends! Couldn’t be the only blogger without a Holiday Home Tour, 12.2019 post! As of this afternoon, the decorating is done with the exception of my cocoa bar. And I will put that together this week. I grabbed my phone and snapped some photos real quick to share with you before the holidays […]

Filed Under: Craft and Create, Life and Style Tagged With: #Christmas, #HolidayHomeTour, #MyHomefortheHolidays

December 21, 2019

My 2019 Mini Christmas Bucket List: Update

  Ho-ho-ho, it’s time to share the update for my 2019 mini Christmas bucket list. Before reading this update, you might want to read the original post, here. Typically, I am very enthusiastic about my seasonal bucket list activities. But this time my heart really wasn’t into it. I knew as I put together my […]

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November 21, 2019

My 2019 Mini-Christmas Bucket List

Ho-ho-ho, it’s time to share my 2019 mini-Christmas bucket list. So happy to have you here to help me kick off the festivities. In 2017, I started making my mini-Christmas bucket lists. You can read that year’s list, here. But this time last year, my mom was suicidal and had just been admitted to a […]

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November 14, 2019

Christmas Giveaway & 10 Favorite Gifts: 10 on the 10th

Sweet friends, This quick post is going to serve 2 purposes. To promote this year’s Christmas giveaway and to share 10 Favorite Gifts for 10 on the 10th. I do realize that it is the 14th and if I don’t type fast it is going to be the 15th. But I had so many other […]

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Sentence a Day, 12.2018

January 1, 2019

Sentence a Day, 12.2018

Dear friends, Happy new year! Here’s hoping you spent an enjoyable new year’s eve with those you love most and have kicked off the new year in grand style. We are fighting a respiratory infection so had snacks about 10:00 pm and then climbed into bed. The new year arrived anyway…without us ushering it in. […]

Filed Under: Family and Friends, Life and Style, Reviews and Reflection Tagged With: #Christmas, #LifeAfterRetirement, #Mom, #SentenceaDay

Merry Christmas & My Blogging Sabbatical

December 25, 2018

Merry Christmas and My Blogging Sabbatical

Dear ones, Merry Christmas, sweet family and friends. No photo to share this year of our tree or holiday decorations. It has been a very difficult fall for my family. I have been MIA here on my blog for weeks. Not sure there will be anyone left to read this message or to join me […]

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OOTDs and SIAs: My Fashion Haus 07.2020
In what felt like the blink of an eye, I have gone from full-time wife to my sweet husband, hands-on mom to my two beautiful daughters and elementary school librarian to a retired, empty nester with lots of time on my hands. Join me on my journey to rediscover who I am. Glad you are here...

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Welcome, sugar plums, to Sentence a Day 07.2020 – my crazy July in one run-on sentence a day.  I always say that these posts are a quick way to journal your day-to-day life.  Especially during this historic time.
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Dearest readers and watchers and listeners, thanks Dearest readers and watchers and listeners, thanks for popping in to pick up the prompt for August's 10 on the 10th post.  On Monday, 08.10.2020, we will be sharing our 10 favorite books, movies, podcasts and TV shows.  If you are new to the 10 on the 10th series, please check out last month's edition, here. 
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Lover-ly ladybugs, linking up with Erika and And Lover-ly ladybugs, linking up with Erika and Andrea, today for my Friday Favorites, 07.2020 post.  Even though this is a weekly post for many of my blogger buddies, I’m just hoping to share my faves once a month, on the last Friday.  And so far, so good.  In case you missed it, please check out the goodies in last month’s Friday Faves, here.  
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Howdy, quarantine queens and mask wearing mamas, i Howdy, quarantine queens and mask wearing mamas, it’s time for Thankful Thursday 07.2020.  I am linking up with Rebecca Jo for her gratitude series, which she publishes every week.  While I certainly have many things for which to be grateful, I try to do a Thankful Thursday post on the last Thursday of the month.  
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