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Sunday Reads: Valentine’s Day candy, nail biting, dealing with sadness, soda addiction, living in a fixer-upper

February 19, 2012

How’s your weekend? We have friends in town and are having a great time – and I’m very happy the kids have tomorrow off! I think I see a whole bunch of hanging out in my bathrobe and slippers in my near future… This week I’ve gathered an eclectic bunch of links for your reading [...]

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mini-resolution: clean up my desk

February 2, 2012

Where do you do the majority of your work? Is it typing at a desk? Stirring over the stove? Mixing in a test tube? Creating in a studio? Chasing kids around the living room? For me, the answer should be “typing at a desk”, but right now I’m sitting in the living room pounding away [...]

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mini-resolution: put away the last of the holiday decorations

January 20, 2012

After a flurry of post-Christmas un-decorating, I ran out of steam…and the job never got quite finished. Rubbermaid containers sit, waiting to be taken to the basement. Several ornaments I found under the sofa are now sitting on an end table waiting to be dealt with. The faux mistletoe is still hanging in the dining [...]

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mini-resolution: throw away all those empty bottles

January 18, 2012

Today in the shower I tried – for about the 15th time this month – to get shampoo out of a bottle that no longer contains any shampoo. And then I set that bottle back down on the ledge where it fell off half a dozen times and I had to keep picking it back [...]

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mini-resolution: unpack.

January 16, 2012

I’m back from our trip, and am now trying to re-adjust to the cold, Eastern time zone, and living in a house full of kids and all the related messes and noises. Funny how difficult re-entry can be even after just a few days away. Often I try to avoid embracing the “coming home” process [...]

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Holidays, the easy way: Baking

December 16, 2011

I love to bake, but it’s one of those things that can easily wind up feeling like just one more thankless item on the “you know, you really should…” list. So how to put the joy and fun back into rolling out dough and busting out those sprinkles? Here are some ideas that have helped [...]

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I’m not a crafty mom, and other lies I tell myself

December 13, 2011

When I was a little girl, a few weeks before Christmas my mother and I would sit at the dining room table with a stack of magazines. Mom would find an ornament pattern she liked, and pulling out her ancient stash of felt, cotton batting, and bric-a-brac, we’d cut out the patterns and begin the [...]

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