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One of the pluses of having children at different preschools is the variety. For a myriad of reasons, my three children attended four different preschools. Each preschool adhered to the preschool calendar of projects tied in to holiday traditions and celebrations. Even though all three preschools celebrated seasonal events, each had different lesson plans...
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Look at the wall. Locate a photo. Evaluate the frame. Do I like it? Does the frame match the photo and vice versa? Would this photo look better in the living room? Take the frame of the wall. Switch out the photo. Insert the photo in a different frame. Hang on wall. Admire. Shampoo. Rinse....
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Halloween is an evolving holiday in our house. From the earliest days when I placed my baby in the infant car seat so that I could be near the front door to give out the Halloween candy to the year when my tween decided she wasn’t going trick-or-treating until about 8:55 p.m., which meant...
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Do you ever go back to your online photo albums and search for a photo? I searched and found this photo. I search in the October 2006 folder and found a true Halloween memory! Let me tell you the back story on this beauty… The photo is from 2006. I was in a “my...
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With Halloween literally around-the-corner, the need to brush, floss, and practice good mouth care becomes an essential of our day here at the Musings from Me house. I can’t stop the kids from eating candy, but I can ensure that they thoroughly brush their teeth. Since the times the children were 3 to 6...
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My super quick giveaway is over. My winner was contacted and responded in record time! I will ship the DVD today! Just in time for Halloween this coming Saturday, here’s a final spooky Halloween e-card: Boo There are only a few days left before the Spookiest Day of the Year — and that means...
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If you follow me on twitter… If you read my blog… If you have met me at a blogging conference or tweetup… If you are my friend on Facebook… If you know me in real life… You know that I write here about Preteens and here about raising kids int he DC Metro area. But,...
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At Halloweentime my son announced that he wanted to be Darth Vader. I found this odd since he had not seen any of the Star Wars films, nor expressed much interest in Star Wars. In the weeks before Halloween he talked more and more about Darth Vader and Luke and Anakin. He still had...
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Last Saturday we drove to Party City to pick out some Halloween costumes. As I drove, one of my kids asked what she “was” last year. This led to a free-for-all conversation about what each of the kids wore going back as far as 1996 when my oldest daughter was a 9-month-old clown. My...
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