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Teaching Children to be Gracious Gift Receivers
Money Saving Mom has been one of my favorite blogs for years. Our family has benefited from her penny pinching, dollar stretching, coupon cutting ideas.
She recently had
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Girl’s Vintage Birthday Party idea from Smashed Peas and Carrots Blog
Hail, Hail the gangs all here! This time it is hail to the hostess!
I don’t often link to ideas that aren’t focused on homemade gift ideas. Christmas Adam is primarily
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Peanut Butter Brownie Trifle Recipe (Taste of Home)
It’s time to finish out our Kitchen Inspired Homemade Gift Giving Month. And I knew we would have to end on a sweet note. This recipe isn’t designed so much for
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Sleep Study and a trip to the park
We took Ren to Pediatric Sleep Clinic on the recommendations of her doctors at the Down Syndrome clinic, where they heard her sleeping and wanted to rule out an obstruction. it is
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Boys will be Boys (but sometimes it takes a girl to teach them)
We’ve all heard it, “Boys will be boys”. Sometimes this phrase is used to dismiss rude disorderly behavior. We try to clamp down on that, but I think sometimes our society also tries to
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Brownie-Bottom Coconut Chocolate Cream Cake
With a title like this, you have only to read it to gain a few pounds. But that’s why you make it to share with a crowd of others. I
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A trip to the ZOO!
The kids were invited to a zoo birthday party. This was a definite hit! Most of my younger kids had never been to a zoo even though it is only
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Salted Pecan Caramel candies…. DROOL!
Yes… I think I am drooling which I know doesn’t conjure up a nice picture in your mind but these Salted Pecan Caramel candies evoke such a response. These little treasures would
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The face behind the careless and hurtful name- Retard
The “R” word. Retard. UGH! Just a few years ago I would have allowed that word to slip out of the mouths of my own teenagers with only a small verbal reproof
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Another Engagement!
Aren’t long time friends the best!?! Even when there are gaps in time that you see each other?
There is a special family we have known for quite a long time. Our oldest boys and
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