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Renovations Are Fun
It’s finally happening! I’ve worked hard. I’ve saved my money and I am now on the road to renovating and redecorating my kitchen/living/dining room area. Open concept floorplans are great but change in these large areas creates an equally large mess. When your kitchen, living room and dining room are essentially one big room, you can’t renovate only one area. That would be weird. And ugly. Living in a construction zone is enough to make anyone crazy, and me being the OCD organizer I am, I had a plan. (Side note – I like to organize, but I rarely am organized.) Anyhow, I had a plan. There were some tasks…
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The Blanket Fort
“Days will be long, but the years will fly right by…” This line from the Old Dominion song, Make it Sweet, couldn’t be more true when you think about being a parent. When my children were small, sometimes it seemed as if the day was 64 hours long. I had my children young and close together. Within a week of my twenty fifth birthday, I was the proud mother of a three-and-a-half-year-old girl, a nineteen-month-old girl and a newborn baby boy. Since being of legal drinking age, I had spent more time pregnant than not. During those early years, I was perpetually torn between praying they would all nap at…
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Social Media Faux Pas
Social media can be many things depending on your perspective and your mood. Sometimes it’s funny and entertaining, sometimes it’s annoying and overwhelming. It can be a great way to stay in touch with friends and family near and far, even an effective networking and marketing tool. I could sit here all day extolling the virtues and pitfalls of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, but that would be boring. Instead, I’m going to examine the lighter, more ridiculous side of the social media coin. I will be the first to admit that I am guilty of at least a few of the indiscretions I am about to ridicule. I won’t…
