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Categories: Reviews and Reflection

Reading: Stepping Outside My Comfort Zone, 09.2019

  Had high hopes for this Stepping Outside My Comfort Zone series/link-up but it didn’t take off like I imagined.  Seems like doing something new, uncomfortable, unfamiliar would be so good for all of us to try now and then.  And taking it a step further by sharing about ways we have stretched ourselves could […]

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Categories: Life Style, Living Life, Reviews and Reflection, Uncategorized

Sentence a Day, 05.2018

Good Thursday morn to you! Here we are again!  Another post.  Must be a full moon or something.  One thing for sure, it’s the first Thursday of the month which means it is time for Sentence a Day, 05.2018.  I really slipped on my sentence writing last month.  There were days when I was just […]

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Categories: Life Style, Living Life, My Fashion Haus, Reviews and Reflection

18 Activitie On My 2018 Spring Bucket List: Update, 05.2018

Hello, my pretties! I don’t know about you, but I am interested to check out my progress on this 2018 spring bucket list.  Kind of worried, because I have forgotten to check my list in making our plans for the weekends.  Or in thinking about what I need and want to do during the week.  […]

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Little Letters, 05.2018

Morning glories! As I predicted in yesterday’s post, it’s that time again!  Time for “Little Letters, 05.2018”.  For a couple of months, I have happily had more gratitude than grumble.  In last month’s post, here, and the post for March, here.  But today’s notes are the opposite.  More grumble than gratitude.  Just been that kind of […]

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Categories: Living Life, Reviews and Reflection

10 Things Motherhood Has Taught Me: 10 on the 10th

Welcome, mommies, daughters, sisters, grandmothers and friends! Linking-up with Erin at SimplePurposefulLiving, the hostess for the 10 on the 10th series.  Today’s prompt is “10 things motherhood taught you” or me, in this case. I always wanted children and planned to have 5 at one point in my younger days.  Because I was anorexic in […]

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7 Things My Grandbabes Have Taught Me

  Sweet friends, Happy Grandparents’ Day!  The idea for this post has been percolating in me for awhile.  After spending time this spring with Lucia and then Cadence, I realized both of my grandbabes have taught me so much.  About living. About what’s really important in life.  As a mommy, I was so caught up […]

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