Children

Indoor Family Fun for Snow Days

This is a repost from last January.  This past weekend we got our first snowfall of the year!  In Georgia that’s BIG BIG NEWS.  Snow days are much more active than normal cold days because the kiddos want to be outside until their fingers are too cold and their clothes too muddy to go any [...]

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Stocking Stuffers Almost Broke My Budget

Mark and I hit a couple of stores yesterday to pick up 3 or 4 things on our list that we weren’t able order online. I am REALLY proud of us for having a shopping budget this year (for the first time ever!) and really working hard to stick to it. Believe it or not, [...]

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What Would You Do? – Planning for Our Children’s Futures

I don’t really have a witty opening line for today’s entry, or a compelling story to tell.  I just have a blazing looming worry that I’m hoping ya’all can shed some perspective on.  Now, I get that in the grand scheme of things, this is a concern that many people only wish to have… but [...]

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I’m turning into my grandmother

I morphed into my grandmother yesterday, right before my children’s eyes. I could hear the words coming out of my mouth as if they were coming from another person. There was section of my brain thinking: “Well, this is an interesting turn of events. Didn’t you very loudly declare you weren’t going to be just [...]

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7 Tips on Moving Back In With Your Parents

ZOMG WTF BBQ she’s alive and blogging!!! (Acronym madness swiped shamelessly from the teenagers at my house.) I lost my voice for a while. I tried to keep posting things on a regular basis, but I’d rather say nothing at all than keep writing articles with no substance. So, now that I (think?) I have [...]

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