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Although I'm more than done having children (having four in four and a half years will cure you pretty quickly), I often get uterus cramps while looking at small babies. If anyone knows of any b...

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While my children were sleeping over at Grandma's house this weekend, my husband and I sneaked off to the theater to see Cinderella. Yeah, we were mean and didn't take the kids yet. I didn't exp...

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A little while ago, I wanted to replace one of the pieces in my kitchen . It didn't have any glass in the front (it fell off the wall one too many times--kids skirting too close to the wall and ...

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Saint Patrick's Day is upon us, and I realized I have very little green in my wardrobe, which is unacceptable. I searched through three stores, not finding anything green that looked good on ...

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It's pretty miraculous that I got my laptop back from my oldest two children so that I could write this post. They've discovered codecademy , and since we are currently taking a break from video...

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This Christmas, I suddenly had the urge to cross stitch. It's been years since I did cross stitching. I think my last project was a blanket for my oldest son, who is now twelve (pick me off the ...

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It's been a while since I went all out on a Halloween costume, but David talked me into trying out Wonder Woman this year. Of course, this involved figuring out how to make my own custom-made...

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Hello! It's been a while since I've blogged. I'm afraid to look at how long. If you were reading my blog before, I'm sure you thought it was dead. I meant to keep blogging. I never meant to stop...

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This is Part 4 of my How I Organized My Entire House for $0.00 (Really!) series. Part 1 (Intro) is here . Part 2 (Simple Rules to Create Organization that Sustains Itself Plus Master Bath Organ...

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This is Part 3 of my How I Organized My Entire House for $0.00 (Really!) series. Part 1 (Intro) is here . Part 2 (Simple Rules to Create Organization that Sustains Itself Plus Master Bath Organ...

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My oldest son is turning ten this week and he wants an Incredible Hulk birthday party. I'm not planning anything too elaborate, but I did make this birthday party invite last night (after my sh...

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This is Part 3 of my How I Organized My Entire House for $0.00 (Really!) series. Part 1 (Intro) is here . Part 2 (Simple Rules to Create Organization that Sustains Itself Plus Master Bath Organ...

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This is Part 2 of my How I Organized My Entire House for $0.00 (Really!) series. Part 1 (Intro) is here . I want to start off this series by giving myself a set of rules (more like guidelin...

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Maybe it's the kids going back to school, maybe it's just because I've reached my breaking point, or maybe it's because of no good reason, but the disorganization in my house has got to grow ...

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I spent it at rehearsals for Spanish Fork Community Theater's production of My Fair Lady. And then I performed in 8 shows of My Fair Lady. My part wasn't anything too big: a member of the ensemb...

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New to digital scrapbooking? Never downloaded a digital kit before? What in the world are .rar files anyway? Get your answers here: How to Unzip Files So You Can Digi Scrap . This past week, I...

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I was just about to start writing this post, and as some reconnaissance, I casually asked my daughter if she had a name for her knit monster toys. She told me no, and that she "didn't necessary ...

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I recently read this post on a (feminist) blog I often read, which basically says women don't like to brag for fear they will seem attention-grabbing or not self-effacing enough. I do and do...

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I knit this Grace Lace Beret to escape the deep, dark abyss I feel into when I graduated from college in December. The name of this abyss is "what in the heck am I going to do with this degree ...

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New to digital scrapbooking? Never downloaded a digital kit before? What in the world are .rar files anyway? Get your answers here: How to Unzip Files So You Can Digi Scrap . Apparently, I've ...

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Remember this ? It now looks like this. One more week, baby. Then I will be a college grad and a human again. Instead of a subspecies with a laptop type growth on her fingers.

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Ok, here it is. What I've been meaning to write and put up for ages. If I didn't have to keep doing that pesky schoolwork (five more weeks until graduation, five more weeks!), this would have ha...

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A few weeks ago, I had a friend coming over to see my house for the first time. I was (frantically) cleaning the morning before she was supposed to come. (Clarice, if you're reading this, that's...

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So, I stayed up sewing until 3:30 am on Sunday night. Maxton, really wanted to be Aang, from Avatar: The Last Airbender . I couldn't find any in the stores and for some reason, it didn't occur t...

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My sister moved a few weeks ago. I mentioned this in my last post . When she moved, she and her husband ditched a ton of their stuff. Which means, I got a lot of their stuff. One of the "stuff...

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