Blog Challenge: Childhood dreams *Note: the title was a piece of “These Dreams” by Heart. I love that song! As a kid, I only wanted one thing: to be tall. My genetics (grumble grumble) decided otherwise and I stopped at 5’2. There goes that dream! A secondary I had? That my biological father would come […]
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Blog Challenge: A Day in History. January 17th is quite a day for celebrity birthdays! We all know it’s Betty White’s birthday. Social media has been going insane with well-wishes for America’s Grandma. According to the site “On This Day“, here are a few other notables: Benjamin Franklin, Al Capone, Eartha Kitt, Vidal Sassoon, James
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Blog Challenge: Be inspired by a quote. Everyone uses quotes. I use them on social media all the time. For this challenge though, I chose a lyric. Yes, there are a TON of inspirational songs.. but I chose one I love listening to when I need a kick in the arse to get up and
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Blog Challenge: Share a video. The suggestions were something great, like a TED Talk. Nope. I’m posting a Hyperlapse video of me playing Dr Mario on my mini NES. Enjoy!
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Blog Challenge: Share a Photograph. If a picture says a thousand words, it might also convey a thousand emotions. Sometimes, it’s just plain chaos. I decided to share an outtake of our Christmas card. Eli-Princess is just done with this whole picture thing (big dog = little patience). Mookie has a cute pose with her
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Blog Challenge: “Create A Resource List” I’ve actually created a few resource lists on my blog. Instead of creating another one in a short time, I’m going to link to my two favorite resource lists (that I’ve posted): Foreign Language Resources Middle Schoolers are learning a foreign language for the first time in their academic
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Today’s Blog Challenge topic was “One Piece of Advice”. Middle School is a scary time. Changing classes, harder work, homework on the weekends, less fun more serious. You go from being the fun parent to being lame. “Mom, why are you on TikTok?” <- Ummm because the dogs are funny! The hormones are going berserk.
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I’m taking part of a blog challenge this month. At least, I’m going to try. Today’s theme is ‘Fours”. It got me thinking.. what do I have four of? PUGS! So here are some ridiculously cute collages starring my four babies. I try my best to put them in age order, so each collage is
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Photographer’s Choice. I decided to hand the reins over to Mini this month because she wanted to share some pics. She went upstate with my parents to visit some family and got some great pics while riding in the car. Disclosure: All photos were taken on her Samsung Galaxy S5 and she sometimes forgets to
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One of my fave things about Spring is that the trees and flowers are in bloom. My apologies to the pollen allergy sufferers, but I just love it! Here are my five pics for this month: 1. Sunset at Cedar Beach I absolutely LOVE this beach! The sunsets from this point are incredible. The pics
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