I can’t tell you how happy David has been since we finally let him ditch the glasses and get contact lenses. He’d been asking for a while and we had been putting him off…thinking he wasn’t ready for the commitment to caring for something like this. But finally last spring I decided to give him [...]

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UGH – the expenses just keep going up. It seems like every time we turn around lately we are getting a notice in the mail that something is going up. Next, I fear it will be our car insurance premium. I know my husband shops around for the best deals…so if this happens I have [...]

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Have you done any dreaming lately? About vacations? I have vacations on my mind right now because we are less than three weeks out from our annual road trip. I wouldn’t exactly say this is my “dream” vacation, however. No…thousands of miles stuck in a van with 7 kids and a grumpy husband is NOT [...]

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I can hardly believe what I received in the mail on Friday… …from the county in which I live… …can you guess…? I got a Juror Questionnaire!!!!! Yikes! Me! 41 years old and this is the first time my name has come to the top of the Juror pool! It’s basically a two page demographic [...]

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I believe in simplicity. So much so that I have actually attempted to create a life that reflects everything about simplicity. It is that important to me…because when things are complicated you lose touch with the things that are truly important. And I don’t want to do this. This is one reason why, when I [...]

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