Every year my family is supposed to finalize our Christmas lists by Thanksgiving. When I was coming up with mine, this is what came to mind: New tires for my car Our carpet replaced Hire me an electrician to fix the broken outlets in our house New blinds in our bedroom Exterminator services Cloth diapers But since that’s completely unsatisfying for the giver and receiver, instead I’m asking for these things: Keurig Elite – as much as I love my French Press regular coffee, I think I’d love the Keurig to save me time and give me more options. The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides – It’s the next book for #twookclub, too popular to get from the library in…
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In the past couple of weeks it’s turned into fall around these parts. Although we’re still in an outrageous drought, the weather has been beautiful. Over the weekend we visited a tiny pumpkin patch, went to the zoo, and dressed up for Halloween. Here is a post with gratuitous baby pictures. Be ye warned. Pumpkin Patch The pumpkin patch was tiny and picked over, but all we needed was a little bench and a pumpkin to prop her up. She wasn’t so much into smiling, but was really enjoying sticking out her tongue. Meredith’s cousin Cameron, nearly two years old, was there with us. He was being sweet to share the little pumpkins with Meredith. And of course she wanted…
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Don’t stone me, but even though it’s not even Halloween I am about to talk about Christmas. Some of you probably shun all things Christmas until after Thanksgiving but it’s my favorite holiday, I want it to last as long as possible, so as far as my blog is concerned Christmas has arrived! I like almost everything about Christmas including the gifts, shopping, delicious food and cookies, holiday music, lights, and family getting together. I also really love sending and receiving Christmas cards. One of my only serious crafty hobbies is making cards, and I actually have done that several times in the past for Christmas, but it’s a huge undertaking and I obviously do not have that kind of…
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[via] When I woke up Sunday morning I kind of expected to be at least a little bit depressed. I mean, there’s this huge buildup to Christmas and then all of a sudden it’s over and a whole year away. That’s sad when it’s your favorite holiday and you don’t have any kind of vacation to look forward to. But I wasn’t sad. I woke up in a great mood on Sunday! So then I expected to be depressed when I woke up on Monday and was faced with going back to work. But I wasn’t! Why am I not experiencing the post-holiday blues? 1. I really like my job. There is nothing that I dread about it except simply…
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