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Yesterday I ran a post on my other blog asking if everyone had their Christmas shopping done yet.
Since I know a lot of people in my face-to-face world who went out on Black Friday, bought everyone’s gifts, and wrapped them - I kind of thought that I would get a lot of people saying things [...]

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MamaBlogga’s July writing project is called “Thanks, Mom” and this is my entry.
I thought that it would be best to write it in the form of a letter.
Dear Mom,

I know that I haven’t always appreciated what you’ve done for me. There have been so many times that I’ve taken you for granted.
Today I [...]

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One of our favorite restaurants (that boasts of excellent home-cooking) is decorated with signs all over the walls. On the signs are famous sayings that “Mom” used to say.
The sayings include:

“Brush your teeth”
“If everyone else jumped over a cliff, would you jump too?”
“Go to bed”
“Pick up your toys”
“Clean your room”
“Share”
“Say thank-you”
“Because I told you so”

I [...]

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Note: This post originally appeared when I was a guest blogger for Angela’s WAHM blog. Angela has consolidated her blogs and she now blogs at Domestic Divapalooza.  I’m recycling this post for your enjoyment. Recycling is a good thing, right?
A few years ago I was sitting at a lunch table with four other moms. All [...]

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