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		<title>Summertime blues</title>
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It&#8217;s August.  Can y&#8217;all believe it?  It&#8217;s the month with the dog days of summer. (The reported heat index for Dallas tomorrow is 109 degrees!  Yes, that is ONE-OH-NINE!!  Ouch)  It&#8217;s a month of birthdays (or more accurately, a summer full of birthdays), and within two weeks my oldest child will be in first grade.
Pardon me while I cry a little.
I remember when she looked like this:
I feel exceptionally old now.  I&#8217;m about to be the mother to a first grader.  Kindergarten wasn&#8217;t so bad&#8230;but ...]]></description>
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		<title>Good doggie!</title>
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Well, after much deliberation, we have decided to get a dog.  There are a myriad of reasons for this, listed here in no particular order:

We promised the kids.
We don&#8217;t have enough living creatures in this household to feed and take care of.
We are just itching for new additions to the family.
We love dogs.
Looking at the shelter-bound dogs is just heartbreaking.
Oh, and we promised the kids. (Did I already mention that?)

Well we have it narrowed down to two dogs.  Help us decide which to pick!
Dog #1, Taylor Sky

Look at those ...]]></description>
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		<title>Weight Loss “Secrets” Part 2</title>
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A few weeks ago, one of my Facebook friends asked me what exactly I was doing to lose nearly 30 pounds this spring.  Specifically, she wanted to know what I ate.
I have been thinking and racking my brains for the past few weeks, and the best thing I can come up with is &#8220;whatever I want!&#8221;  To be honest, I don&#8217;t make &#8216;special&#8217; diet meals for myself.  I have learned to eat less of the foods I normally make for the family, or make little changes to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Weight loss secrets, part 1</title>
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A few months ago, I joined Weight Watchers for the third time in four years.  I love the plan for many reasons; it&#8217;s easy, I can eat what I want, and I am held accountable.  On a whim, this time I started posting my weight loss each week to my personal Facebook page.  After my most recent post, my friend Haley (from the fantastic fashion blog Cardigan Junkie) asked me to share my secrets.  Though I don&#8217;t feel like I have any groundbreaking secrets to share, I&#8217;m going to write ...]]></description>
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		<title>Most dreaded shopping day of my year</title>
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My stomach is in knots, my heart is racing, and I feel a headache coming on.  Why, you ask?
We are taking the kids swimming tomorrow, and today is the day I shop for a swimsuit so that we may all swim together.
Other people will see me in this.  They will see my jiggles and wiggles and florescent skin.  Yes, I said florescent.  I am that pale.
Never mind the fact that I have lost over 25 lbs since February, when I started Weight Watchers.  Never mind ...]]></description>
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		<title>On houses and homes</title>
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Houses are such emotional investments, aren&#8217;t they?  What is literally walls, a floor, and a roof soon becomes so much more to us.  We spend time making them livable, making them reflect our personalities and interests, and making them a home for our families.
Places you rent just don&#8217;t seem the same, do they? It&#8217;s so much different pulling into a brick and mortar place that is all yours (you know, after the gazillion years it takes to pay it off).  Living in apartments, I always remember thinking ...]]></description>
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		<title>And then, God laughed at me</title>
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Oh, I had such big plans this week!  I was going to set aside some time over the weekend to write some fantastic and inspirational and prayerful posts regarding the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Now I am resorting to jotting down a quick post during nap time (when I would just LOVE to be able to nap myself!).  God sure does have an excellent sense of humor, and picked a prime target for a scheduling disaster! (Because we all know how &#8220;scheduled&#8221; and regimented I am&#8211;ha!)
I wonder ...]]></description>
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		<title>7 Quick Takes Friday</title>
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Since I didn&#8217;t have time to participate in Writer&#8217;s Workshop yesterday (though if you want to read posts from those who did, go to Mama Kat&#8217;s link up), and I honestly don&#8217;t have a ton of time to sit and write a well-thought out post today, I&#8217;m going to do a 7 Quick Takes post and link it up to Conversion Diary.

1~ I mentioned yesterday that today marks the start of the Novena to the Holy Spirit.  Jen linked up to YouTube videos of the daily prayers.  I haven&#8217;t watched ...]]></description>
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		<title>For my Catholic friends–</title>
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Don&#8217;t forget that the Novena to the Holy Spirit starts tomorrow!
(Like I almost did.  Thank heavens for Catholic bloggers like Jen from Conversion Diary.)
And, in honor of this novena, next week I&#8217;ll be writing a little bit about the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.  In case you don&#8217;t know, those are:

Fear
Piety
Fortitude
Knowledge
Understanding
Counsel
Wisdom

So check back later today for my Writer&#8217;s Workshop post (unfortunately much later today as I don&#8217;t have a minute to sit and write), and be sure to subscribe so you don&#8217;t miss next week&#8217;s series on ...]]></description>
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		<title>Oh no, no internet!</title>
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Our Internet and tv is out! A tech is coming by to fix today&#8230;so that is why I&#8217;ve been MIA. (because I forgot to schedule my posts this week!! Oops!)

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