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Are you a “worst end of year school mom”, too?
Are you a “worst end of year school mom”, too? Have you seen the hilarious article by mom of 5 and blogger Jen Hatmaker called ”Worst End of School Mom Ever?” Before we can talk about it go read it HERE. Jen, you are breaking down barriers. And by the way I’m laughing my ass off. Can you [...]
June Book Club Pick: And the Mountains Echoed
June Book Club pick: And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini Last month’s Book Club pick was Tell The Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt. After all of my complaining about not wanting to read yet another book about loss and dying, it turns out the book was much more about sisters, teen angst, and secret [...]
Weekend Links for 5/31/13
This is the last weekend we are all together as a family before the Captain heads off to do his captaining thing for the summer season. You’d think after 20 years of saying goodbye season after season that I’d be a lot better at it than I am. The good part is that we will [...]
A better way to decide on paint color
Yes, there is a better way to decide on paint color than painting swatches across your existing walls like this: The problem is that it can take a while to decide, and in the meantime you’re walls look like a patchwork quilt. Not a great look. So, instead of the patchwork quilt method there’s [...]
Kids socks trend: Nike Elite
KIDS SOCKS TREND: NIKE ELITE BASKETBALL SOCKS Have you seen these snazzy socks the kids are wearing? I thought they were baseball socks at first glance, but it turns out they’re made by Nike specifically for basketball and are called Nike Elite Sequalizer Crew socks. They come in a tons of different colors, but all [...]
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Field trip: El Galeón
This magnificent ship, El Galeón, is a 170-foot wooden replica of explorer Juan Ponce de León’s ship and is docked at Bahia Mar in Fort Lauderdale only through Tuesday May 18th. The Broward County Commission sponsored 20,000 free tickets; which are all sold out. But we toured this morning and the crew weren’t collecting any tickets, so I [...]
Self-taught.
This week I’m dedicating my time behind the scenes, learning Photoshop – the final frontier for a self-taught web designer and blogger. Photoshop allows design elements to be brought into photos – you can do so many things; and this takes a bit of time to learn. But if I want to make pretty layouts, [...]
Weekend links for 5/10/13
Weekend Links for 5/10/13 By the time this post is up, I’ll be heading to Connecticut to see the original Big Girls – girlfriends whose support and enduring friendships inspired the concept of this place called Big Girl Life. What’s the occasion? Several in our group are turn 40 this year, so I badgered them [...]
