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. Wishing all the fathers, step-fathers, grandfathers, foster fathers, and single mothers acting as mother and father a very happy Father's Day.  Hope you are surrounded by family, happiness, and lots of love. Although I had a difficult relationship with my father, he was a wonderful grandfather to my boys and they miss him terribly. For all you did for my boys, thank you and wish you

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.     As the mother of a soldier who returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, I am so grateful that he suffered no injuries and has had no lingering mental effects. He did however, lose one member of his unit while he was in country, so I dedicate this post and this weekend to SSG Edwin Rivera and all the other members of the Military who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in

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.   I got an email from a friend that moved me so much, I just had to share it with all of you. Hope you enjoy this.....     Enjoy your day! .

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. Photo Credit You might not have known this, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female.  Here are some examples:          FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.         

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.   Epcot® International Flower & Garden Festival     One of Bill and my favorite events at Disney World is the Flower and Garden Festival at EPCOT that happens every spring.  Besides all the amazing flower sculptures, that I will post in the future, there are concerts every weekend featuring bands from the 60's that Bill and I just adore.   We have

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. I received this from a friend of mine... I so wish I knew who to contribute this to, as it is hysterical. Subject: INSTALLING A HUSBAND Dear Tech Support, Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewelry applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0. In addition,

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.   Nano as a baby.     My favorite photo of Nano     Nano celebrating today with an ice cream.     Happy Birthday to our little baby... Mommy & Daddy love you very much!!   .      

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.       Earlier today I posted a photo on FB of this bread pudding I made especially for Bill (yes, I like it, too). It is chocolate chip bread pudding, that tastes absolutely delicious. I got a couple of requests for the recipe, so I decided to post it here for all of you..... 1  French loaf - 2 days old 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter - melted Custard: 3 

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. Wishing all of you a very happy St. Patrick's day! Hope you have fun with those you love and who love you... and remember, be safe! .

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. Like you're surprised I had Mickey Mouse Invitations.   Sixteen years ago today, I married my best friend, the love of my life, the most wonderful man in the world, and each and every day since then I have grown to love him more and more.      My beautiful boys gave me away. (L: Nik; R: Alex)     Bill has been there for me and the boys since the

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.  Photo Credit       Happy Pi Day - 3/14 is officially Pi day.   Photo Credit PI = 3.14159265(to infinity)     Now, I was pretty good in math in high school and in college, but the only thing I remember about Pi is that the circumference of a circle is 2πr. That's really not gonna get me anywhere in Mathematical circles, so I think I'll just stick

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.     A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?' The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined See what you think: 'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore... So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got

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Today is my fabulous husband Bill's birthday... He is the most wonderful man I have ever met. He make me smile every single day and fills my heart with joy and love. Bill is a fantastic husband and a wonderful father, I am so happy that he is in my life and wish for many, many more years of happy birthdays for Bill and I to share together.

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. One year ago today, we lost our beloved Mai-Li Louise.  She went peacefully in her sleep and had eaten well earlier that evening and was even watching TV and playing just an hour before she passed.  Mai-Li was such as special doggie, she loved to watch TV and never missed a dog on screen.  She also adored "Maxwell" the Geico piggy - she would get up on the arm of the

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. Image Credit Today is Elvis Presley's birthday he is 78 years old today... Happy birthday to the king of rock-n-roll. Now I don't want to hear from any of you asking me, "what I'm talking about, don't I mean he would have been 78 because he died in 1977?"  Elvis isn't dead, he's in Witness Protection somewhere, living out his retirement golfing, fishing, and singing around the

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. Image Cedit From my family to yours... wishing you all a new year filled with happiness, success, and love.  Looking forward to our friendships continuing.  HUGGLES! .

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. Have you heard of  @ShopYourWay? It's a fabulous way of earning reward points from Sears, L.L.Bean, KMart, etc. just for doing what we all do what we love to do..... SHOP!!! Well, now there is an even easier way to earn points from Shop Your Way, it's called Win Your Way! It is so much fun and so easy, you don't even have to spend any money, all you have to do is electronically

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. Well, as usual, I'm late.... But know that I love you all deeply an pray that you had the most wonderful of Christmases, surrounded by those you love. I sure did.  I was with Bill, Nano, Mia, Mandie, Mumbo, and Wiggles. Don't they all look so adorable in their Christmas clothes? We also heard from all our children, who were having a fantastic time, except for wishing we could all be

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. 3 Days Until Christmas My neighbors, "The Griswalds," have taken it upon themselves to now decorate the street lights on their street (that is perpendicular to my street) with colored cloth and little elves. So now the whole street is guarded by elves and lit by candy canes. I swear it can be seen by the ISS.....     I hope you are enjoying the Christmas decorations

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. As I bake my Christmas cookies this year, I am continually reminded how much I hate my refrigerator. There just isn't enough room in either the refrigerator part or the freezer part - hence the reason I haven't started baking sooner. I don't know how many of you are in a similar situation, or have other appliances that you just cannot stand... I recently was able to replace my

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.       Toni of A Daily Dose of Toni arranged for several of us to sing all these parts and worked her little tukus off to put it all together. (Thank you SO much, Toni!) We first present to you the traditional Twelve Days of Christmas..... And now for our next performance:     Next, Toni arranged us all, with the help of Trisha and Lynsey, to sing The

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. 6 Days Until Christmas We got all the babies new outfits for Christmas... actually we got them more than one each.  But you probably figured that out already if you know me. HaHa Here are Nano and Mia in one of their outfits each, if you notice, the bow on Mia's dress matches the print on Nano's outfit. Too cute. =)   Hope your Christmas plans are going well..

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Thank you to Carrian Cheney of the blog Sweet Basil for beginning this effort, and to Nike Peterson of the blog Nike Peterson Designs, for creating the beautiful graphic you see above. The United Way of Western CT has set up a fund to help those affected by this terrible tragedy and if you would like to contribute to that fund, please head over to the United Way's Website. Thank you

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. 8 Days Until Christmas I have showed you photos of the "Griswald House" around the corner from my house during the day, but now I'd like to share with you what that house and the entire street looks like at night with all the lights lit up. There are even candy canes along both sides of the street lit up making it look like a landing strip for Santa - on Christmas morning, you can see the

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.     19 Days Until Christmas   Bill and I worked all afternoon today to finish decorating the outside of our house and we wanted to share our completed project with you. (Click on any photo to see the whole thing.)     Welcome to our home - and that is the ONLY kind of snowman that we like to see! Mickey Mouse wants to welcome you, too - are you surprised

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