Is there anything better than breakfast? I could eat breakfast for dinner, lunch, and well, breakfast. Eggs and bacon, pancakes and waffles, omelette and frittatas, you name the breakfast food and I will eat it. And, of course, I’m all about coffee…endless cups of coffee…bottomless pots of coffee. Yum! I discovered eating out for...
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I have systems. Plans. Methods for organization. My systems have systems. I file the school papers. Clip them together in stacks. Hang the papers from the fridge or bulletin board. I sort old papers so that old papers don’t get mixed up with new papers. But, I ALWAYS have a stack of papers on...
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A couple of kids at the circus As a person who gets a kick out of giving prizes to winners on my blog giveaways, I got a kick out of winning a giveaway this summer. I entered a giveaway on my friend Dani’s blog (Tots2Tweens). I won a family 4-pack of tickets for the Piccadilly Circus....
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A vacation should be relaxing. Stress free. A welcome distraction from life back home. That’s the theory anyway. I’ve heard rumors of relaxing vacations. Ones where you sip a drink while relaxing by the pool. You sleep in or get up early depending on who you are. Meals are prepared for you. After a...
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You know how adults are supposed to like cocktails and kids are supposed to like sweet drinks? Well, I’m the kind of person who never developed the palate for adult drinks. I don’t drink beer. I stay away from hard liquors after a pair of hangovers in college. You don’t want to know. Let’s...
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I looked high and low in the pantry. Searched shelf after shelf. Looked in boxes…and bags. All I needed was to find one bag. An empty bag would do. But, alas the children in this house have devoured every last morsel in every last bag. Sigh. At least I know they thought it was...
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Hunger. I never think about. Oh, I’ve certainly been hungry before. I could definitely afford to ignore those hunger pains, but have I ever experienced true hunger? No, not even close. There was always food in the fridge during my childhood. I never recall skipping a meal. I always had a lunch at school...
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I’m in and out and in again and then out again for a few and then home again. My neighbors must think I run a delivery service or something. My minivan is in a constant state of motion during the day and evening, which is weird since I work from home. Working from home...
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Cereal is a food that we all have strong opinions about. We love a certain cereal or absolutely detest it. There’s no gray area. I am never able to buy just one box of cereal. Nope, I need buy at least 5 boxes. One box will be devoured before I have unpacked the groceries....
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I’m not a good cook. Don’t let the apron in the photo fool you. Before you say “but, surely you exaggerate?” No, really. I’m a horrible cook. In 22 years of marriage, my husband has said the following words to me exactly FIVE times after eating something I have cooked — “This is REALLY...
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