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The slippery slope of eco-thought.

It’s a slippery slope. Once you find yourself going down the what’s-good-for-the-planet train of thought, you find that there is no easy stopping point. Well, if I care about waste from k-cups, why don’t I care about the waste from that bag of shredded cheese?  Look at all this packaged crap… How much trash have [...]

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A Roomba Valentine

Rob likes coming home to a clean house. For Valentines Day, I decided to break out my favorite house appliance “Wadsworth”, our Roomba, to help me tidy up for his arrival. (Okay, second favorite, after the Keurig coffee maker.)   Not only did it help clean, but it supplied 30-min of amusement to Ellie. I just [...]

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It takes a village…and I want a village.

Last week our house was dealing with colds and major sleep deprivation.  As I sat around the other day, wanting to curl up into the fetal position, I got to thinking about how nice it would be to have a village…or tribe…or even sister wives. How nice would it be, to get up in the [...]

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Red Solo Cup

Starting Ellie’s bath, when this crazy Toby Keith song got stuck in my head.  Can’t figure out what inspired it… “Red Solo Cup, I fill you up… Let’s have a party, let’s have a party… I love you, red solo cup, I lift you up… Proceed to party, proceed to party!” Gotta love bath time! [...]

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Saturday Derailment and Guilt

Saturday night was a rough night. Had my friend watching Ellie so we could go out to a birthday dinner.  I was excited to get out of the house with the hubby and see some friends we don’t see very much. I had myself all prepared with what I was going to order.  I knew [...]

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License to be silly and never going back

I’ve always been a fan of singing in the car.  In fact, I’m also a big fan of singing the instrumental parts, something that my college boyfriend used to say was terribly annoying.  What a booger. First, it is just so fabulous that my husband approves of my singing and will often sing along.  God, [...]

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