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Each year, my girls and I make this Thanksgiving Blessing Mix for their friends at school. Our school makes a big deal out of Thanksgiving, with the kindergarten having their own in-class feast, and the older kids having a full fledge turkey dinner for lunch the week before the holiday, celebrated with their classmates and…
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To Go or Not To Go, that is the question – Excursions. Your cruise line will give you a bunch of options with regard to the excursions they offer, and I will tell you that I go back and forth on the excursion bandwagon. Your mileage may vary when it comes to the value of…
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Free Babysitting!! This is your vacation, too, Mom and Dad, and while I know for me the temptation has always been great to want to spend the whole time with my kids, my kids are finding it much more appealing to spend time without me, despite my reminding them of the hard pregnancies and difficult deliveries…
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Another consideration when booking a cruise is what deck on the ship you’d like to be on. As someone who comes from poor Irish stock, I have to tell you, the lower decks on a cruise ship always scared me. Visions of My People on the Titanic, stuck in steerage, unable to get to the…
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“Aruba, Jamaica, ooohh I wanna take ya; Bermuda, Bahamas, come on Pretty Mama…” Yeah, so I don’t have the best singing voice, get over it. And the song, well, you won’t find it on too many top 10 lists. Sue me. Back in the day – and that day meaning before I had a houseful…
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Gastric bypass surgery WLS review of lunch at Sakura Japanese Restaurant
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Twice. What’s that saying – burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. If you’ve ever met me, I think I come off as kind of quiet, shy, and whatever the opposite of flamboyant might be. I’m sort of vanilla, who just happened to end up married to rocky road. So…
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If you’ve read David Sedaris before, you know how he can be. He is dark, humorous, and honest about people and how they act – even if they are animals. I can’t help but wonder, though, if he has issues with his mother. But of course, there is a story in this book that has…