Our New Do’s

I did it! I got the short “do”! KayDee (my hair dresser) is such a fun young, energetic, talented soon to be mama that I always come away feeling energetic myself. Plus all that KayDee knows how to do my hair how I like it even when I don’t know what I want done with [...]

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I’ve Been Tagged With the Hubby Meme

I got memed by Krista, a fun young mom from Washington I have become friends with. I love to talk about my man so this was fun to do. I am going to tag my nieces because they are also fun young moms and I want to know their answers. The Hubby Meme How long [...]

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Five Daughters

My son and daughter in law just found out their expected baby is a girl. This will be their fifth … five girls! And they are as excited for this sweet little girl as they were for their first … we all are. I couldn’t help but think of the future. His house will be [...]

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Putting The House On A Diet

We have five very large bookcases. I mean we have five VERY large bookcases. We’ve also had little stashes of books all over the house, some in the basement in Lynn’s office. Some upstairs in my office … some stacked in the corner of my bedroom, a few in the living room in a basket, [...]

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Broadening My Horizons in Art

I bought some art books today. One of them, “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards is one I checked out of the library for four weeks in a row . I didn’t realize I liked … or could … draw until after I wrote the novel. I think tapping into [...]

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Bee-Lieve it or Not, Our Second Night of Camp

Bee-lieve it or not … this blog gives me the shivers. I have good reason for my fear of bees because when I was maybe six or seven years old my older brothers and I lifted the lid from one of Dad’s wooden beehives … that my brothers said was just full of honeycomb. They [...]

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Ya Gotta Do What Ya Gotta Do

Ii’s 2:00 AM and I must be losing my mind because I am in the TV room, in the dark, watching a movie, all by myself … drinking caffeine free Diet Coke and sucking on red licorice. It’s my private “Girl’s Night Out”… a little “Rest & Relaxation”. Year’s ago when I had five little [...]

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Learn Their Language

I just had a language lesson from my 7 year old grand daughter. I asked her to check the dog’s piddle pad to see if she’d used it. She came back and said, “Yes she did it. She did Number Three.” “Number Three?” I asked. “You mean she did three poopies?” ‘No, Number Three means [...]

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List of LDS Bloggers

I found a great sight for those of my readers who are LDS mothers (members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.) It has a list of LDS women with blogs … a neat place to go for ideas and fun reading. Technorati Tags: lds women bloggers

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"No, Lady, You Can’t Go Every Time"

Little Lady Bichon has suddenly decided she wants… and deserves … to go bye bye every time I do. It has been this way ever since we took her camping last week. She loved it … smiled the entire time. The problem is the heat here in Southern Utah makes it impossible to take her [...]

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