We survived the Demi Lovato, Avril Lavigne and Jonas Brothers concert last night! It actually was a really great time for all of us. Lines weren't too long, the kids were well-behaved and we sat...
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© (nutmeg) Some days there is just nothing better than a break in the daily routine by going out to eat. However when you start to total up the bill for a family to eat, it seems to get pricier......
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About midnight, I was up working and I heard a small cough from the top of the stairs. Hayley was up to go to the bathroom and wandered down for a hug. We snuggled downstairs and headed back up as......
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Watching your kids grow up is bittersweet when you see them moving to the next stages. Fourth grade started this morning and I looked at my baby girl, she is so big and mature now. Hayley wore a...
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We survived getting back to school supplies while our credit card certainly took a beating from it. Once upon a time there were very few options for the required school items. I remember when Trapper...
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Our daughter's school politely requests you volunteer regularly. Most of the time, the school seems to be full of volunteers but I know there is always more work to be done. I've got to make a...
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* 1 composition notebook (black/white marbled) * 6 spiral notebooks (1 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow, 1 green, 2 purple) * 5 pocket folders with metal fasteners (1 red, 1 blue, 1 yellow, 1 green, 1 purple) *...
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Tonight was the annual 'Meet the Teacher' night at our school where you find out your child's teacher and classmates for the next year. Since we are in year round schools and our track...
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The season for our summer swim team, the Devil Rays, came to and end last night after defeating a team our kids had never been able to beat. Our team is very popular around the neighborhood so we have...
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I wrote in the past about my daughter having her friends give her donations for the SPCA instead of gifts for her 10th birthday party. They all had great fun getting gifts and we didn't feel...
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The Jonas Brothers and Avril Lavigne are coming to town in nine days and yours truly is taking the kiddo and a horde of her friends. That's right, I'm going to risk my hearing and sanity to...
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When my daughter was heading off to her grandparents, we packed up and hit Dunkin' Donuts on the way out of town. I needed caffeine for the drive to the halfway point (and then drive back home...
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I'm 35 years old and I'm a single mother to a 5-year-7-month-old energetic boy. It has always been the two of us since he was conceived. That been said, let me just say that our relationship...
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My daughter is off with her grandparents (my husband's folks) for five days. I hardly know what to do with myself. It started out really fun but eventually it was too quiet and too lonely for us....
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News are abound when I got up that Angelina Jolie has given birth to twins (a boy and a girl) on Saturday pm in Nice, France by c-section. The babies are reportedly named Knox Leon and Vivien...
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We'd had a long day today and I didn't feel quite right, so I decided to doze on the couch while my daughter played Mario Kart on the Wii. When I checked my email later tonight, I found an...
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Some emails make me more happy than others... The best way to celebrate National Ice Cream Day this July 20th is to head to America's favorite neighborhood ice cream shop and scoop up the fun....
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The latest news in celebrity birth is that Nicole Kidman and keith urban are new parents to a baby girl they named Sunday Rose Kidman Urban. Nicole and Keith's baby girl was born Monday morning...
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We just saw the previews for Journey to the Center of the Earth at the movies this weekend and our daughter was wide-eyed at the action sequences in the previews. (We saw WallE, loved it!). There is a...
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She crawled into our bed about four in the morning with a headache last night. She wanted me to rub her head and I happily obliged. My hands never seem to stop doing something and rubbing is one of...
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We finally did our tie-dye project in the days before July 4th. Our red, white and blue concoctions had some good and bad points but we proudly put them on for the holiday and generally dorked out in...
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I'm making this a post on the blog because it is going to max out the comment limits and because I wanted to share about it, in what I hope is a constructive way. This is in response to...
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There once was a time when I carried a cute little purse. All I needed was a small wallet and my keys. I favored small Dooney & Bourke bags and loved to see when new ones came out. Sometimes...
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