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&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;So we made it back from Texas. &amp;nbsp;It was a nice, quick trip, jam-packed&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;with adventure. &amp;nbsp;I left the picture taking to the grandma's so&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I will share some pics if I ever get any. ;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Meanwhile, here are some random pictures from my camera this week.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;In no particular order.......&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;1. &amp;nbsp;Fall decor.&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;I.love.fall.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8YL551bjyAY/TpN-1446beI/AAAAAAAAByU/ZkeqkscwSf0/s1600/IMG_8869_3067blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="430" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8YL551bjyAY/TpN-1446beI/AAAAAAAAByU/ZkeqkscwSf0/s640/IMG_8869_3067blog.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d9VIlOmA4_4/TpN-KcEKl9I/AAAAAAAAByM/t8nSXdzEaJI/s1600/Untitled-1blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d9VIlOmA4_4/TpN-KcEKl9I/AAAAAAAAByM/t8nSXdzEaJI/s640/Untitled-1blog.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;I have a love~hate relationship with play dough.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I love that the kids love to play with it and I hate cleaning it up.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7xhxSuJqKV0/TpN4qpIkskI/AAAAAAAABxc/YA5Db86455A/s1600/IMG_8748_3029blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7xhxSuJqKV0/TpN4qpIkskI/AAAAAAAABxc/YA5Db86455A/s640/IMG_8748_3029blog.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iewC7NxQXFc/TpN4rO0Q3NI/AAAAAAAABxg/FWb5RqS8JtA/s1600/IMG_8757_3038blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iewC7NxQXFc/TpN4rO0Q3NI/AAAAAAAABxg/FWb5RqS8JtA/s640/IMG_8757_3038blog.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;3. &amp;nbsp;I love coming in and kissing on this boy after his nap.&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;XOXO&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;(notice the outfit of his choice. camo shorts, polo shirt on backwards)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GDBeD6yW_V0/TpN4rvnuRyI/AAAAAAAABxk/9PbxijoWUyg/s1600/IMG_8830_3020blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="426" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GDBeD6yW_V0/TpN4rvnuRyI/AAAAAAAABxk/9PbxijoWUyg/s640/IMG_8830_3020blog.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;4. &amp;nbsp;New hallway art from IKEA. &amp;nbsp;Shawn really liked this and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;I was surprised and proud that he loved something funky.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z6LqRaa0Xq8/TpN4r615tuI/AAAAAAAABxo/uahwlj0TcBw/s1600/IMG_8839_3026blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z6LqRaa0Xq8/TpN4r615tuI/AAAAAAAABxo/uahwlj0TcBw/s640/IMG_8839_3026blog.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;5. &amp;nbsp;Ahhhh. &amp;nbsp;Went to the Sunflower Market and loved everything but&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;the CROWD. &amp;nbsp;Some of my goodies were delicious tomato bisque soup&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;from the soup bar, fresh herbs to plant, Burt's Bees' face moisturizer, and of&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;course, sunflowers!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_yul8da4vu0/TpN4sfzua5I/AAAAAAAABxs/Cr4qFce0UEM/s1600/IMG_8846_3050blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_yul8da4vu0/TpN4sfzua5I/AAAAAAAABxs/Cr4qFce0UEM/s640/IMG_8846_3050blog.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TgCO21Uy114/TpN41XElKmI/AAAAAAAAByA/T9bp5IiAUAM/s1600/Untitled-4blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TgCO21Uy114/TpN41XElKmI/AAAAAAAAByA/T9bp5IiAUAM/s640/Untitled-4blog.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;6. &amp;nbsp;Now that the weather is so glorious, our morning routine includes&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;playing in the sandbox and swinging before school. &amp;nbsp;We have even&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;brought our school work out to the back porch a couple of days.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;I.love.fall.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r6L-mq_Bjus/TpN40rJDfqI/AAAAAAAABx0/teKluv0CZhU/s1600/Untitled-1blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="480" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r6L-mq_Bjus/TpN40rJDfqI/AAAAAAAABx0/teKluv0CZhU/s640/Untitled-1blog.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a6loYURnAso/TpN40_FqMVI/AAAAAAAABx4/zxom7KHa1zA/s1600/Untitled-2blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a6loYURnAso/TpN40_FqMVI/AAAAAAAABx4/zxom7KHa1zA/s640/Untitled-2blog.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;7. New IKEA frames with some more foolin' around in Photoshop&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;and DIY art.&amp;nbsp;I made these for my sister but had to try them out in the kids&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;bathroom first.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3_eIslg6fwE/TpN41C9oWOI/AAAAAAAABx8/P8Er0DVvt7w/s1600/Untitled-3blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3_eIslg6fwE/TpN41C9oWOI/AAAAAAAABx8/P8Er0DVvt7w/s640/Untitled-3blog.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="480" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;Thank you for your faithfulness to me. &amp;nbsp;The last 4 days of school&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;have been some of the best I can remember. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-c8YV6MEf4_k/TlQWPgNLusI/AAAAAAAABrg/XdaErqxGmZs/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Berklee's favorite subject ~b y f a r ~ has been art.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;She asked to do the worksheet above 4 times in a row! And she&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;made sure each time was better than before.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-s_7CjbIoHE8/TlQWLwa6VTI/AAAAAAAABrU/YqL0GmFR6hM/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;This little guy hangs with us for quite a while and then does his&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;own thing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-RC7YkGuGCQE/TlQWOV5kD0I/AAAAAAAABrc/kjmAsaxlU_0/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;The picture above has something to do with the&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;{I'm a Believer} post that I'm going to write soon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;If you are a mom of young children and you would like,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;for example, your kids to make their beds each morning then&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;you will want to check it out!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-1EREUqG1hZ4/TlQWKm4R4lI/AAAAAAAABrQ/OEDOpFZeo1s/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Oh, the conversations. &amp;nbsp;I wish my mind could&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;remember all of them!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-2ROW3_dpRN8/TlQWJZJjb5I/AAAAAAAABrM/HT9-nYvKkYg/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="bloggerplus_image_section"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-81nQOijzqLM/TlQWNh7CMhI/AAAAAAAABrY/B2kKErxrW-Y/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="cursor: move;" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Happy Tuesday.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;P.S. I'm still posting over here because I still have people reading here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;But you can head over to &lt;a href="http://www.themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/"&gt;the new blog&lt;/a&gt; and get the same posts. :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TandaPlainAndTall/~3/PRRLZpy1UVo/random-tuesday-im-believer.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tanda)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jdE7hU3MlYw/TlQmnPcqLpI/AAAAAAAABrk/88X5KXpscrc/s72-c/ChevronDEAR+GOD+10X8.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com/2011/08/random-tuesday-im-believer.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865772990301872898.post-1529696545424138601</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-22T14:07:11.344-07:00</atom:updated><title>{From Sheet to Chic}</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;I have been searching for a while for affordable curtains with a&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;modern design. &amp;nbsp;Expensive would be the word to describe&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;what I was looking for. &amp;nbsp;Then today at Ross I ran into this&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;sheet set for 20 smackaroos and can you say search&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;OVER!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4ohUw2azmcM/Tk2QLy7bAII/AAAAAAAABq0/xx4z-9GGW68/s1600/IMG_7948_2292Teresa+Hall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="424" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4ohUw2azmcM/Tk2QLy7bAII/AAAAAAAABq0/xx4z-9GGW68/s640/IMG_7948_2292Teresa+Hall.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-bottom: 6px; padding-left: 6px; padding-right: 6px; padding-top: 6px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VJTBwfo7Hss/Tk2QMGibNZI/AAAAAAAABq4/Xzn7BDmV_uM/s1600/IMG_7952_2296Teresa+Hall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="424" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VJTBwfo7Hss/Tk2QMGibNZI/AAAAAAAABq4/Xzn7BDmV_uM/s640/IMG_7952_2296Teresa+Hall.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;Before.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k4MZiqi1JSw/Tk2QNUSqPII/AAAAAAAABrE/aNj42SWgb8A/s1600/IMG_7965_2309Teresa+Hall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="424" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-k4MZiqi1JSw/Tk2QNUSqPII/AAAAAAAABrE/aNj42SWgb8A/s640/IMG_7965_2309Teresa+Hall.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;After. I just cut the flat sheet in half and know I will find a purpose for the rest&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;of the set!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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I love the blogging world for so many reasons.&lt;br /&gt;
And I &lt;s&gt;hate&lt;/s&gt;&amp;nbsp;don't like it for many reasons.&lt;br /&gt;
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I oftentimes wonder if some of these blogger moms, who homeschool&lt;br /&gt;
their kids, make gourmet meals for dinner (with dessert), sew pillows to&lt;br /&gt;
match their quilts, attend all of their fantastic social events each&lt;br /&gt;
week, AND blog about it ALL, are on CRACK? &amp;nbsp;I'm being funny of course,&lt;br /&gt;
but seriously? &amp;nbsp;Maybe they&amp;nbsp;have a different, better, faster genetic code than I do.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Or maybe they have different priorities.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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So I'm sorry that I was here one minute and gone the next, for those of you&lt;br /&gt;
who wondered what in the world happened. &amp;nbsp;As a busy disciple, wife, mom,&lt;br /&gt;
teacher, friend I made a list of important things and checked it twice. &amp;nbsp;My days&lt;br /&gt;
were still too short and my list was still too long, so I checked it a third time. &amp;nbsp;The&lt;br /&gt;
last two things on the list were facebook and blogging about things that&lt;br /&gt;
distracted me from the &lt;i&gt;human&lt;/i&gt; things higher up on the list. &lt;br /&gt;
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I still love blogging for the fact that it is a way for me to record the moments&lt;br /&gt;
of my kids lives in simple words and pictures, a way for me to easily share those&lt;br /&gt;
moments with our friends and relatives who live far away, and to occasionally share&lt;br /&gt;
about how great my God is.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If that is more your style too, you can check out my more simple version of&lt;br /&gt;
blogging at &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.themaguirehouse.blogspot.com/"&gt;The Maguire House&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;
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In Christ,&lt;br /&gt;
Tanda&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5865772990301872898-997861796829758206?l=tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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while the kids whined and cried and made me feel horrible for doing so.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
But I agreed to listen to Christmas music while I was working.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
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Every year we spend Christmas in Florida I still have to constantly remind &lt;br /&gt;
myself that it really is Christmas even though it is warm and sunny outside.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
I don't know if this Okie will ever get used to it.&amp;nbsp; But this Christmas was&lt;br /&gt;
unique for other reasons.&amp;nbsp; Without writing a novel today I will just&lt;br /&gt;
say it was a revival.&amp;nbsp; We met with around 50 other believers from all over the &lt;br /&gt;
country and even Brazil 3 different times for worship and breaking of bread &lt;br /&gt;
and teaching on Hebrews. It was surreal and the most memorable Christmas so far.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
I'm sure I will share more as the Lord leads me about what Shawn and &lt;br /&gt;
I are learning about what it means for Christ alone to be the&lt;br /&gt;
head.&amp;nbsp; The head of our lives and the body that we fellowship with.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
It sounds simple but it is rocking our world.&lt;br /&gt;
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The following are some thoughts that have been on my heart that I &lt;br /&gt;
felt it was time to put on paper.&amp;nbsp; They are not rules for my life or yours, &lt;br /&gt;
just things to contemplate......&lt;br /&gt;
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...........the most important priorities in my life are to &lt;br /&gt;
1. have a REAL and intimate relationship with the Lord&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
2. complete the work of the Father &lt;br /&gt;
(Eph 2:8-10) &lt;br /&gt;
3. show my kids the best picture&lt;br /&gt;
of Christ that I can through my relationship with my husband&amp;nbsp; and &lt;br /&gt;
4. teach and mold my children&lt;br /&gt;
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So with those in mind I wrote the following:&lt;br /&gt;
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What we were and were not created to do.&amp;nbsp; God could have made 48 &lt;br /&gt;
hour days but he didn't. Why?&amp;nbsp; Because he knew we would waste that too!&lt;br /&gt;
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1.&amp;nbsp; We weren't created to maintain 1600 plus square foot homes.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
Including cleaning, fixing, improving everything in and outside of the house,&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;not to mention doing all of that for each possession in our homes.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
Think of ways to simplify and reduce time spent cleaning and re-cleaning earthly &lt;br /&gt;
materials that will have no value in eternity and begin spending that time on &lt;br /&gt;
kingdom building things like teaching your children or time with the Lord.&lt;br /&gt;
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2.&amp;nbsp; We weren't created to spend 2-10 hours a day watching TV or &lt;br /&gt;
spending time on the computer.&lt;br /&gt;
Weren't we just fine before www took over the world?&lt;br /&gt;
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3.&amp;nbsp; We weren't created to maintain and put time and effort into people &lt;br /&gt;
and relationships just for the sake of good conversation.&amp;nbsp; We were created to &lt;br /&gt;
be a light unto the world and live in COMMUNION (having everything in common) &lt;br /&gt;
with our brothers and sisters in Christ.&amp;nbsp; Hebrews 3:13 says that we need daily &lt;br /&gt;
encouragement from one another so that we are not hardened by sin's &lt;br /&gt;
deceitfulness.&amp;nbsp; Our relationships should be purposeful and bear fruit.&lt;br /&gt;
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Our body does nothing without&amp;nbsp;our brain's direction.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
Our lives should be so submitted to the&lt;br /&gt;
the Father that it functions the same way.&lt;br /&gt;
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In Christ,&lt;br /&gt;
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Tanda&lt;br /&gt;
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Sidenote:&amp;nbsp; After 16 years I am now a full-fledged-brunette!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;
I'm loving it and so is the hubby and I actually changed my name &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TandaPlainAndTall/~3/0kSxTgMd4n0/my-thoughts-from-christmas-and-sidenote.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tanda)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-thoughts-from-christmas-and-sidenote.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865772990301872898.post-5185907395871798027</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-12T20:57:08.433-08:00</atom:updated><title>Today my heart.....</title><description>melted.  Well, it stopped first.  Then it fluttered back to life and THEN it melted.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I fell in love with my little 2 1/2 year old man at first sight but we have had our rough patches.  He and I are so much alike actually.  He is tender-hearted and naturally more timid than his sister and dad, and definitely dislikes change.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;His set of wonderful characteristics can be challenging in certain situations, like for example,  dropping him off at Sunday school.  And naturally it is harder in these situations when mama is doing the dropping instead of daddy.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;So typically we try to avoid the crying and just let daddy do the dropping. But today I figured we both needed to get some practice since the last time we came to church without Shawn I basically got to go pick out my seat before my number was posted on the screen to come get my screaming kid.  &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Today, I held Hayden's hand and nervously walked him to his door, of course expecting the worst.  I opened it and nudged him in.  I said "love you buddy" and started to close the door when he quickly snatched my hand back in his.  Oh dear, here we go.  I may have even squinted my eyes waiting to hear the dreaded cry.  Then right in front of his whole little 2 year old class and both teachers he raised the front of my hand up to his mouth and gave it the most gentle, perfect prince-like kiss.  (and I'm so glad he is only 2 and not 10 because I dropped to my knees and kissed his little face) Oh, and then he said "love you too mom" and I turned around out of that room an floated to the sanctuary.  And I might still be glowing.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Loving Motherhood.&lt;br&gt;Tanda&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TQWnoQqj0nI/AAAAAAAABPg/UAD3RTNWLPI/bloggerPlus.jpg'&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5865772990301872898-5185907395871798027?l=tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;I think every little girl needs&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"&gt;this in her room.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP6w3OellaI/AAAAAAAABPQ/vO4JMCpYwwg/s1600/Daughter+of+Royal+birth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP6w3OellaI/AAAAAAAABPQ/vO4JMCpYwwg/s640/Daughter+of+Royal+birth.jpg" width="488" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;And here is my new favorite website, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.dana-made-it.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;made&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;She has the cutest patterns and ideas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="120" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP6zf2vt59I/AAAAAAAABPc/HLAS90ByDlc/s400/made.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am like a little kid this year waiting for my&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Christmas present......&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;hopefully a sewing machine, thanks honey.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;I am praying that my goals aren't too lofty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Because wouldn't Berklee be darling&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;next summer in this&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP6zYwZy5tI/AAAAAAAABPU/Lia4GymlzLI/s1600/circleskirt.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP6zYwZy5tI/AAAAAAAABPU/Lia4GymlzLI/s320/circleskirt.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;or this?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP6zZKaOV6I/AAAAAAAABPY/8OabH8BmKH4/s1600/shirtdress.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP6zZKaOV6I/AAAAAAAABPY/8OabH8BmKH4/s320/shirtdress.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;We shall see. &amp;nbsp;:)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5865772990301872898-8406927937871830596?l=tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;only tv in the house for EIGHT days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2mysyYnBI/AAAAAAAABOg/jw17u6foAZM/s640/a11.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="425" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Make a new picture for you son's room.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2mzOlMKII/AAAAAAAABOk/0yzCVTH2Mmk/s1600/a12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2mzOlMKII/AAAAAAAABOk/0yzCVTH2Mmk/s400/a12.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Hang Christmas lights everywhere.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2mzp7knYI/AAAAAAAABOo/tL1rfptGp40/s1600/a13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2mzp7knYI/AAAAAAAABOo/tL1rfptGp40/s640/a13.jpg" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Make a new picture for your daughter's room.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Use Martha Stewart glitter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m0iunraI/AAAAAAAABOw/M5ubX-EHmTY/s1600/a15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m0iunraI/AAAAAAAABOw/M5ubX-EHmTY/s640/a15.jpg" width="454" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;on lots of things......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m1qjvrnI/AAAAAAAABO4/Fm-UymfiokU/s1600/a17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m1qjvrnI/AAAAAAAABO4/Fm-UymfiokU/s640/a17.jpg" width="354" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Make an old picture into a new picture for your laundry room.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m1HixdRI/AAAAAAAABO0/rAfMkIg4eWE/s1600/a16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m1HixdRI/AAAAAAAABO0/rAfMkIg4eWE/s640/a16.jpg" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m2slAyvI/AAAAAAAABO8/iQq-P4BkNBI/s1600/a18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m2slAyvI/AAAAAAAABO8/iQq-P4BkNBI/s400/a18.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Rearrange Christmas bulbs until they are just right.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m3t0BIxI/AAAAAAAABPE/SlTbcFYDIPc/s1600/a20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m3t0BIxI/AAAAAAAABPE/SlTbcFYDIPc/s400/a20.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Make a $2 tray from Goodwill into a chalkboard thingy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m4O4F0BI/AAAAAAAABPI/-QMXWRthoNk/s1600/a21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m4O4F0BI/AAAAAAAABPI/-QMXWRthoNk/s640/a21.jpg" width="426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Turn this......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m3I13_EI/AAAAAAAABPA/rd-5gBzFUdQ/s1600/a19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m3I13_EI/AAAAAAAABPA/rd-5gBzFUdQ/s640/a19.jpg" width="392" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;......into this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m4SLAaMI/AAAAAAAABPM/O-J16a2v2Ng/s1600/a22.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2m4SLAaMI/AAAAAAAABPM/O-J16a2v2Ng/s400/a22.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;And of course, take scary pictures of your dog!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TandaPlainAndTall/~3/To8LgeEM738/what-to-do.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tanda)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TP2mysyYnBI/AAAAAAAABOg/jw17u6foAZM/s72-c/a11.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>4</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-to-do.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865772990301872898.post-226292795910328932</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-03T11:53:57.892-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Family</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">life</category><title>Thanksgiving Weekend Pics</title><description>In no particular order....&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlFlPxi4QI/AAAAAAAABN0/bLjAsHaVNeE/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Berklee watching the Macy's Parade&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlFoQxk1HI/AAAAAAAABOI/HkEJ827yNKE/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Singing Christmas songs while making a wish list for Nana in Florida&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlFq_5Qk7I/AAAAAAAABOQ/E2qMt91b4S0/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;I took pictures of their requests with my iPhone and texted Nana the pics.&lt;br /&gt;
Gotta love technology!&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlFmcCUR6I/AAAAAAAABN8/AUfPpfa970A/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our picture with Santa at Bass Pro. &amp;nbsp;Santa looks a little amused.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlFs_znQaI/AAAAAAAABOY/9fqEsIiREzw/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Sleeping at Bass Pro. &amp;nbsp;I think this was the start of the flu.&lt;br /&gt;
Hope you didn't pick this cart. :(&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlFl3kPJMI/AAAAAAAABN4/gZjktEgSEys/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Popcorn at Bass Pro. &amp;nbsp;Lots of fun activities for the kids here (and Santa). &amp;nbsp;I would&lt;br /&gt;
recommend it.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlFnQV3bKI/AAAAAAAABOA/SSzdMARNeRE/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Saturday was a perfect day for the zoo.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlFo7WBGdI/AAAAAAAABOM/HzAT_MPbaH8/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;The only picture I have from Thanksgiving. &amp;nbsp;Shame on me. &amp;nbsp;I get lazy sometimes.&lt;br /&gt;
But here is Berklee with some of the many munchkins.&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlFr7K7wII/AAAAAAAABOU/mwu8RKq8Pis/bloggerPlus.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;And we even squeezed in a date night. &amp;nbsp;Doctor's orders. &amp;nbsp;:)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5865772990301872898-226292795910328932?l=tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TandaPlainAndTall/~3/xVEmEqLu1_4/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tanda)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlFlPxi4QI/AAAAAAAABN0/bLjAsHaVNeE/s72-c/bloggerPlus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865772990301872898.post-3176881729958003885</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-03T11:32:30.721-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Family</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">life</category><title /><description>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;I'm not quite sure when we will be back to normal but today I am thankful for my mom's potato soup and cornbread and blogging from my phone.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Thanks for the comfort food mom!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TandaPlainAndTall/~3/tzsNl0u8css/im-not-quite-sure-when-we-will-be-back.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tanda)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPlE2LDtqZI/AAAAAAAABNw/lZ7Ef2Xt4Qo/s72-c/bloggerPlus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com/2010/12/im-not-quite-sure-when-we-will-be-back.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865772990301872898.post-5742945686587498693</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 23:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-12-02T15:26:36.293-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Photography</category><title>Something I Like A.Lot</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="203" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPgjtCDF3vI/AAAAAAAABNQ/osYvVHQimJk/s640/adobe.jpg" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Because we are still in sickness, recovery mode around here I thought I would&lt;br /&gt;
just give you and idea for Christmas. &amp;nbsp; When I got my Canon SLR camera a year&lt;br /&gt;
and a half ago I knew I wanted some sort of photo editing software but didn't&lt;br /&gt;
have $700 to pull out of my magic hat for the "real deal" Photoshop. &amp;nbsp;Plus it would&lt;br /&gt;
have been wayyyyy too much for me. &amp;nbsp;So, I did some research and found out&lt;br /&gt;
that you can do pretty much any and every thing you would ever need to do&lt;br /&gt;
with Adobe Photoshop Elements. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Seriously, I love my elements. &amp;nbsp;The possibilities are endless and are only constrained&lt;br /&gt;
by my lack of time to learn. &amp;nbsp;And the great part is that Elements is less than $100 bucks!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Click &lt;a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopel/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; if you want to check out more details.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Here are some examples of what Elements can do. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Adorable Hayden Before&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPgoPnc0lpI/AAAAAAAABNU/h-Rje3PuUQE/s1600/ex1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPgoPnc0lpI/AAAAAAAABNU/h-Rje3PuUQE/s400/ex1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Wam Bam After!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPgoQoZpHsI/AAAAAAAABNY/Oj1JBQP4P2Y/s1600/ex2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="297" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPgoQoZpHsI/AAAAAAAABNY/Oj1JBQP4P2Y/s400/ex2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Stinky Birds from Florida Before&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPgoRlsEu2I/AAAAAAAABNg/-h0aecO56cE/s1600/ex4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPgoRlsEu2I/AAAAAAAABNg/-h0aecO56cE/s400/ex4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Mystical Birds After&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPgqRIYDl0I/AAAAAAAABNs/15OlovwzePw/s1600/ex6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="276" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPgqRIYDl0I/AAAAAAAABNs/15OlovwzePw/s400/ex6.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;And you can create your own art from scratch. &amp;nbsp;Like so.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I'm sure you get the idea. &amp;nbsp;Endless possibilities. &amp;nbsp;Elements just might&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPbRVF8CSGI/AAAAAAAABNM/L4x7vF4GmI0/bloggerPlus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPbRVF8CSGI/AAAAAAAABNM/L4x7vF4GmI0/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;We didn't receive any prize money, gift cards or accolade when we left the doctor today.  But we definitely were recognized by the "family of physicians" at Mercy NW Clinic for being their first official FLU case! It was a miserable trip and I teared up as I held Berklee and the doctor asked if I thought she should be in the hospital!!  We agreed that since she is drinking fluids right now that we would hold off on that.  What?  Hospital?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPbRT7M0YGI/AAAAAAAABNI/M5-k2qgunqE/bloggerPlus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPbRT7M0YGI/AAAAAAAABNI/M5-k2qgunqE/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Anyhow, say a little prayer for us and I beg you to get your flu shot.  Our December 7th appointment isn't gonna work for us this year.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPbRRZFLQqI/AAAAAAAABNE/khDz_PCRJZ0/bloggerPlus.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPbRRZFLQqI/AAAAAAAABNE/khDz_PCRJZ0/bloggerPlus.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: &amp;quot;Courier New&amp;quot;,Courier,monospace;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Seriously though, we were told we would be billed for our copay later and were escorted all the way out the front doors so we wouldn't have to touch anything.  (We felt really special.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5865772990301872898-8304905874190280071?l=tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TandaPlainAndTall/~3/-XauoaAVtOc/nooooooooo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tanda)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPbRVF8CSGI/AAAAAAAABNM/L4x7vF4GmI0/s72-c/bloggerPlus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com/2010/12/nooooooooo.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865772990301872898.post-6009126313966997792</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-30T13:41:02.246-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Thing One and Thing Two</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Bible Study</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Family</category><title>Tricky</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here is a sample of another exhausting attempt to get&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;4 whole eyes to look at me while I take pictures.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Not one I tell you.&amp;nbsp; Not one!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;(At least they are cute.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Now, when you look at these two, does it look&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;to you like they need anything?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPVofJrW_nI/AAAAAAAABM4/xKnEsfp9NCM/s1600/CHRISTMAS.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPVofJrW_nI/AAAAAAAABM4/xKnEsfp9NCM/s400/CHRISTMAS.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Really &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPVof6QvT6I/AAAAAAAABM8/rTtOMcG71EA/s1600/CHRISTMAS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="270" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPVof6QvT6I/AAAAAAAABM8/rTtOMcG71EA/s400/CHRISTMAS2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Am I asking you a trick question?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPVogUi9vJI/AAAAAAAABNA/TYcO3x4WMZU/s1600/CHRISTMAS3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TPVogUi9vJI/AAAAAAAABNA/TYcO3x4WMZU/s400/CHRISTMAS3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Yes I am.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;No!&amp;nbsp; Of course they don't &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt; anything!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;So I have been pondering and throwing an idea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;around to Shawn the past few weeks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;What if we only give our kids 3 gifts each this year?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;(You have to know that my husband loves gifts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;It would happen to be his top love language, you know&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;from that book that everyone has heard of.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Like gold, frankincense, and myrrh. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Gold = the gift they want the most.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Frankincense = a gift they &lt;i&gt;need&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Myrrh = a gift to be given away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;So I got crickets, nothing, notta out of him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Not a no, but not a yes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I know he was struggling internally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Saw it, felt it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Want to know a great thing about our church?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;They don't let you get away with thinking about yourself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;too much.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;On the drive home Sunday afternoon I casually asked what he&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;thought about the sermon?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;He said, "the kids are getting gold, frankincense,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;and myrrh."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;And because my kids are animal lovers we are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;buying two goats for them.&amp;nbsp; To be shipped&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;to a third world country and provide up&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;to 16 cups of milk per day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://donate.worldvision.org/OA_MEDIA/xxwvus/istore/L0111.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://donate.worldvision.org/OA_MEDIA/xxwvus/istore/L0111.jpg" width="361" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;You can check out this amazing opportunity to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;change a life, or a village, at&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://worldvisiongifts.org/"&gt;WorldVisionGifts.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here is a portion of &lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+58&amp;amp;version=NIV"&gt;Isaiah 58&lt;/a&gt; that I have been reading&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;over and over this week.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-18793"&gt;6&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;i&gt; “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: &lt;br /&gt;
to loose the chains of injustice &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;and untie the cords of the yoke, &lt;br /&gt;
to set the oppressed free &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;and break every yoke? &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-18794"&gt;7&lt;/sup&gt; Is it not to share your food with the hungry &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— &lt;br /&gt;
when you see the naked, to clothe them, &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-18795"&gt;8&lt;/sup&gt; Then your light will break forth like the dawn, &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;and your healing will quickly appear; &lt;br /&gt;
then your righteousness&lt;sup class="footnote" value="[&amp;lt;a href=&amp;quot;#fen-NIV-18795a&amp;quot; title=&amp;quot;See footnote a&amp;quot;&amp;gt;a&amp;lt;/a&amp;gt;]"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+58&amp;amp;version=NIV#fen-NIV-18795a" title="See footnote a"&gt;a&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/sup&gt; will go before you, &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;sup class="versenum" id="en-NIV-18796"&gt;9&lt;/sup&gt; Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; &lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here is another rockin' recipe from none other than the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Pioneer Woman&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt; herself. &amp;nbsp;Did you watch her throw down&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;with Bobby Flay? &amp;nbsp;She reminds me so much of me. &amp;nbsp;A little&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;nervous and awkward in front of a crowd. &amp;nbsp;I think&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;that's why women love her so much.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;She's just real folk ya know?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;I tried her &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/10/three-cheese-stuffed-shells-with-meaty-tomato-sauce/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Three Cheese Stuffed Shells with Meaty Tomato Sauce&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;this week and the husband gave it two thumbs up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;I'm on a roll. &amp;nbsp;Do you think I should ask for a raise?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcQN73FXrI/AAAAAAAABMc/_42L0R8T5cY/s1600/pasta1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcQN73FXrI/AAAAAAAABMc/_42L0R8T5cY/s400/pasta1.jpg" width="366" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Most of her recipes make too much for our family&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;for one meal so I always keep these little tins handy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;and stick half in the freezer for one of the many days I don't&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;feel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt; like cooking.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcQSHYB-0I/AAAAAAAABMk/5U4-G6gAb1g/s1600/pasta3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcQSHYB-0I/AAAAAAAABMk/5U4-G6gAb1g/s640/pasta3.jpg" width="425" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Here is the recipe or you can &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/10/three-cheese-stuffed-shells-with-meaty-tomato-sauce/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;click here for her play by play&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #5f6161; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div class="shortcode" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 30px; padding-right: 30px; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;h4 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-weight: normal; font: normal normal bold 14px/normal Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Ingredients&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;ul class="ingredients" id="ingredients-92571" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 15px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;8 ounces, weight Jumbo Pasta Shells&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;30 ounces, weight Whole Milk Ricotta Cheese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;8 ounces, weight Parmesan Cheese, Grated, Divided&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;½ cups Grated Romano Cheese&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;1 whole Egg&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;12 leaves Basil, Chiffonade&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;2 Tablespoons Minced Parsley&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Salt And Pepper, to taste&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;2 Tablespoons Olive Oil&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;½ whole Medium Onion, Chopped&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;5 cloves Garlic, Minced&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;½ pounds Italian Sausage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;½ cups Red Wine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; list-style-type: square; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;1 whole 28 Ounce Can Crushed Tomatoes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h4 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #9d6034; font-weight: normal; font: normal normal bold 14px/normal Georgia; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 18px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Preparation Instructions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Cook pasta shells for half the cooking time; make sure not to overcook. Drain and rinse in cool water. Set aside.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Heat olive oil in large skillet or dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add onions and garlic and saute for a minute or two. Add Italian sausage and brown, breaking it up into small pieces as it cooks. Pour in red wine and let it cook for a minute or two.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Pour in cans of crushed tomatoes and stir. Add sugar and salt. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low. Cover and cook 30 to 45 minutes, stirring occasionally. Check for seasonings; can add crushed red peppers if you like a little heat.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;In a separate bowl, mix ricotta, half the Parmesan, Romano, egg, salt and pepper, basil, and 2 tablespoons parsley. Stir until combined.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;To assemble, coat the bottom of a baking dish with sauce. Fill each half-cooked shell with the cheese mixture. Place face down on the sauce. Repeat with shells until cheese mixture is gone. Top shells with remaining sauce. Sprinkle on extra Parmesan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes, or until hot and bubbly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcQOxhjEjI/AAAAAAAABMg/g7NAVpMz6eY/s400/pasta2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;But legos?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNaALdw2I/AAAAAAAABMQ/JhjxBG0iP-M/s1600/legos3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNaALdw2I/AAAAAAAABMQ/JhjxBG0iP-M/s400/legos3.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;All&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNYhZ-R2I/AAAAAAAABMM/P-QSHbZzZ3M/s1600/legos2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNYhZ-R2I/AAAAAAAABMM/P-QSHbZzZ3M/s400/legos2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Day&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNbRmFOvI/AAAAAAAABMU/M3nL_B2rH4M/s1600/legos4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNbRmFOvI/AAAAAAAABMU/M3nL_B2rH4M/s400/legos4.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Long&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNfEDJS4I/AAAAAAAABMY/WgPi3ogF2lU/s1600/legos5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNfEDJS4I/AAAAAAAABMY/WgPi3ogF2lU/s400/legos5.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Baby.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNXeG5fkI/AAAAAAAABMI/qMe9aEeJ5Ck/s1600/legos1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNXeG5fkI/AAAAAAAABMI/qMe9aEeJ5Ck/s400/legos1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;And that's about what it took to build&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;la casa de legos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5865772990301872898-4338411268483295534?l=tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TandaPlainAndTall/~3/05D3F9n9xPI/legos-and-time-management.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tanda)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOcNaALdw2I/AAAAAAAABMQ/JhjxBG0iP-M/s72-c/legos3.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com/2010/11/legos-and-time-management.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865772990301872898.post-1545279171510752813</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-20T07:33:09.195-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">motherhood</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Recipe</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Homeschool</category><title>Chocolate Mounds {Math in the Kitchen}</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Whether you are homeschooling your children or not,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I believe we should all be a part of our children's education.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I've heard two great pieces of information over&amp;nbsp;the past couple of years.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;1. The most important thing you can do&amp;nbsp;for your child's education&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;is to help them fall&amp;nbsp;in LOVE with learning. &amp;nbsp;This means you have to&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;really get into it. &amp;nbsp;They will mimic your passion&amp;nbsp;or lack there of. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Example: &amp;nbsp;When you read&amp;nbsp;them books really try to get into the book and&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;into the characters. &amp;nbsp;Help your child's imagination&amp;nbsp;explode.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;2. &amp;nbsp;Basic &lt;i&gt;and&lt;/i&gt; complex learning tools aren't just in&amp;nbsp;text books. &amp;nbsp;They are all around. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Look for ways&amp;nbsp;to incorporate learning into every day activities,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;like going to the bank, studying a flower,&amp;nbsp;or baking goodies!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Side note to any homeschool mom(including myself): don't stress! Y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;ou will be a better&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;mom and teacher if you&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;aren't wigged out about making sure you are doing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;enough. &amp;nbsp;Just try to be intentional about your days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Here is a fun {and slightly messy} recipe&amp;nbsp;that your kids will love {helping} you with.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;Chocolate Mounds&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TObkMAq4gaI/AAAAAAAABL0/baqLHbX_-_4/s1600/chocmounds1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TObkMAq4gaI/AAAAAAAABL0/baqLHbX_-_4/s400/chocmounds1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;What you need:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;1/2 cup dry roasted peanuts&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;1 pkg. (8 squares) semi-sweet chocolate&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;2 1/2 cups corn flakes&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;1/2 cup dried cranberries (we had Craisins)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;24 holiday marshmallows&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;wax paper or foil covered cookie sheet&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt; &amp;nbsp;Crush peanuts into small pieces.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I divided them in half and gave Berklee and&amp;nbsp;Hayden one ziplock bag each&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;and a {small flashlight}&amp;nbsp;each to pound away. &amp;nbsp;I had to think fast and&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;a hammer wasn't an option. &amp;nbsp;~And the flashlights&amp;nbsp;still work. &amp;nbsp;Whew!~&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;2. &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Melt your chocolate according to the&amp;nbsp;directions and then add all of your&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;ingredients&amp;nbsp;to the chocolate.Kids love pouring. &amp;nbsp;I don't get it, but they do.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;It doesn't have to sound formal but&amp;nbsp;when you are measuring out the ingredients&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;show them what you are doing and&amp;nbsp;give a simple explanation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Example: Ask your kids to look at the recipe&amp;nbsp;with you and point to the measurement.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Read it out loud and then have them help&amp;nbsp;you find the right measuring cup or spoon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;If it is a half of a cup ask them what two&amp;nbsp;halves would make. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Kids are &lt;i&gt;sponges&lt;/i&gt; and believe me, they &lt;i&gt;learn&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;from these simple little conversations.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TObkRYmeiLI/AAAAAAAABME/nFFDPrDj9HY/s1600/chocomounds5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TObkRYmeiLI/AAAAAAAABME/nFFDPrDj9HY/s400/chocomounds5.jpg" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;3. &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Mix everything together and then spoon out&amp;nbsp;about 24 clumps of&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;goodness onto a wax or foil lined cookie sheet.&amp;nbsp;Have your kids count out&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;the spoonfuls with you.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TObkM3AmzCI/AAAAAAAABL4/gXSf0wnjPnQ/s1600/chocomounds2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="278" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TObkM3AmzCI/AAAAAAAABL4/gXSf0wnjPnQ/s400/chocomounds2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;4. &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Top each mound with a marshmallow.&amp;nbsp;I had 24 clumps so I had each&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;child count out 12 marshmallow.&amp;nbsp;And they ate about every other one. &amp;nbsp;:)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"&gt;5. &lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;Refrigerate for 1 hour and then enjoy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;**For a quick gift you can buy a large jar from the&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;dollar store and fill it with all the ingredients.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Add a cute tag with the assembly directions and a bow or ribbon.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Put the dry ingredients as the bottom layer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Then a piece of wax paper or foil. (use the base of the jar to cut to size)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Unwrap the chocolate squares and use as the middle layer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Add another piece of wax paper or foil.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Throw in 24 marshmallows for the top layer!**&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Make these in advance and then grab and go!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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"Exactly how many days has it been since I washed my hair?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hmmm.&amp;nbsp; I don't know.&lt;br /&gt;
Was it Saturday, so I could be good for church on Sunday?&lt;br /&gt;
No.&lt;br /&gt;
Was it Friday night before date with the hubby?&lt;br /&gt;
Um.&amp;nbsp; No.&lt;br /&gt;
Was it Thursday before Bible study?&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Dang!&amp;nbsp; I am so gross!&lt;br /&gt;
By golly I deserve to take the time for myself to shampoo&lt;br /&gt;
and condition my hair and dry it and FLAT IRON IT!!!&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Yeah, and I'm not picking up another toy or washing another&lt;br /&gt;
sippy cup until I don't feel like a grease monkey!!!&lt;br /&gt;
What has motherhood done to me?"&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
MOM!!! (screaming toddler)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I'll be right there.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TandaPlainAndTall/~3/tIA77Zr1jVs/permission-slip.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tanda)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TOHaHkWCJAI/AAAAAAAABK4/B7f4l1PZ0_w/s72-c/betterdan.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com/2010/11/permission-slip.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865772990301872898.post-3692401847653943892</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 03:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-13T20:31:49.501-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crafts</category><title>Coffee Filter Wreath Tutorial {Anthropologie Style}</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9g4zafvgI/AAAAAAAABKY/seZsmEaGt1A/s1600/wreathfianl.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9g4zafvgI/AAAAAAAABKY/seZsmEaGt1A/s400/wreathfianl.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252595679280642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;So here is the wreath tutorial.  I got this great idea from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thenester.com/2010/11/making-a-coffee-filter-wreath-and-tree-and-things-of-that-nature.html"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;The Nester&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;But &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I will say that I accidentally made an improvement &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;to The Nester's project.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Doesn't this just say &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/images?client=safari&amp;amp;rls=en&amp;amp;q=anthropologie+window+displays&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;source=univ&amp;amp;ei=IGLfTMGUOpGgsQP5q5iDCw&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;amp;ct=title&amp;amp;resnum=1&amp;amp;ved=0CCoQsAQwAA&amp;amp;biw=1677&amp;amp;bih=817"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Anthropologie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;?   Now I will confess that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;I have never actually been inside this store for three reasons: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; a.  we don't have any in Oklahoma that I'm aware of, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; b.  I couldn't afford to buy &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;a single &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;item in the store, and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;c.  I don't travel much (at all) so I probably won't get the thrill &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;anytime soon. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;But I have seen some pretty amazing pictures of the decor &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;in this place.  A-mazing. For your enjoyment, this first picture &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;is one of their window displays using, I think tissue paper, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;but the second and third pictures are coffee filters!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Like I said, pretty amazing!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9jzXsGdII/AAAAAAAABKw/QnBfm0RujyI/s400/anthropologie.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539255800872465538" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 248px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9jzFSjiDI/AAAAAAAABKo/rcWxf6Z1Nss/s400/anthrop.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539255795933481010" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9jy1juM7I/AAAAAAAABKg/GvHn6oIlsdo/s400/anthro.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539255791710516146" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Anyhow, now that I have set the bar really high for myself,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;here is what you need.  And here is where my improvement &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;came in. The Nester used a packaged wood/like wreath &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;but all I had was a styrofoam one in the craft/linen/christmas gift closet.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;When I was showing off the beaut to my friend after I was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;finished she suggested that I could stick different holiday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;or floral picks in the wreath for each holiday or season! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Great Gadsby that's a good idea!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9gy_c6WRI/AAAAAAAABJw/EFW6I38qSaQ/s400/wreath1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252495831423250" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;So fold your coffee filter in half like so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9gzUyqSlI/AAAAAAAABJ4/bDw-hmcSuuA/s400/wreath2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252501559790162" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;And then in half again like so.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9gzdLruKI/AAAAAAAABKA/d4ryS5KFjoc/s400/wreath3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252503812225186" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Now a dab of glue will do ya.  I put mine pretty close together.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9gzoJuGwI/AAAAAAAABKI/u_PZSb5i9r0/s400/wreath4.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252506756782850" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_8g-E9w8Dkkg/TN9g0IdrO7I/AAAAAAAABKQ/zTqpTsgrxnM/s400/wreath5.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539252515430415282" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#0000EE;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;It doesn't have to be perfect and you will need to fill in some gaps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Mine could actually use a few more coffee filters to make &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;me completelyhappy.  Hope you enjoy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;P.S.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://lessonplans.craftgossip.com/kid-craft-inspiration/2010/11/12"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;This&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; is a great website for kid's craft ideas and they &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;actually featured &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com/2010/11/kid-craft-inspiration.html"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;this post&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; on their site yesterday!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5865772990301872898-3692401847653943892?l=tandaplainandtall.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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