Once upon a time, I met a girl who became my INSTANT BFF. I mean, this INSTANT connection happened between us, where I’d say, “I love XYZ,” and she’d gasp and exclaim, “ME TOO!” And I’d talk about music, and my favorite songs were her favorite ones, too. It was that way with ALL THE THINGS… every idea I had, she thought was brilliant; everything I liked to do, she…
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I think it started sometime back in high school, when I was trying to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. Seems like nursing crossed my mind more than once. I don’t know why I didn’t do it. Probably because I spent my college years skipping haphazardly through sixteen different majors… Two different times during my college career I stuck my toe into the ‘nursing school’ water, took…
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Bourbon Street, 1965 Happy anniversary, mom and dad.

I’ve worked off and on for the better part of eleven years at the most wonderful kids’ clothing store. My friend Diana introduced me to Wiggles and Giggles when my oldest was a mere babe; I was instantly hooked, because I LOVE for my kids to dress really cute, and if I can dress them at bargain prices, all the better! I started working there, because, heck, all my money…
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We didn’t really expect much when we planted watermelon seeds back in the spring. We had tried last year and gophers ~ or something ~ ate the roots out from under all our plants, so we didn’t get one single melon! Dumb gophers. And then, this year, we moved to our new/old house, and brought our little sprouted seedlings with us, which isn’t the best thing for your vegetables. We…
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I realized something sort of unflattering {ok, a LOT unflattering} about myself the other day. I didn’t want to tell the world about it, because, you know, then I’d have to admit I had a flaw in the first place {gasp!}, and that’s never fun, but what happened {what I did, I should say} truly wrenched my gut and made me vow to change my ways permanently. The moment it…
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I’m gonna be honest… about the ONLY thing I ever remotely miss about the old Blue House is the kitchen. That’s because I designed it. After years of tearing out magazine pictures, I knew I wanted a vintage-style kitchen with white subway tiles, a farmhouse sink, and a pale aqua ceiling. I drew out how I wanted it, and got the kitchen of my dreams. It was beautiful and perfect. Click…
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I wouldn’t say I have the worst hair in the world.  No, because there’s that woman who works at WalMart who has twelve hairs on her head and a full beard on her face. I know you’ve seen her. She makes me feel better about myself. But my hair, while not that bad, is hard to deal with. In fact, I was telling my mom about this blog post this morning…
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I know what you think. You think I’m crazy, I know you do. I didn’t get enough of the whole remodeling nightmare super fun adventure during the last Blue House   living hell   thrill ride. I HAD to do it again. Though when I say ‘again,’ believe me… there is NO comparison to the horrendous experience of remodeling a 1928 house. This one’s actually new in comparison. Plus it has electricity,…
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  When we got the bright idea last year to plant some vegetables, we jumped in with both feet, because, you know, that’s how we like to do things. ALL in, baby. We bought seeds and lattices, we tilled up a patch of our back yard, we watered, we weeded. I researched organic gardening methods; hubby scoffed at everything organic. We rejoiced when tiny little green leaves poked their little…
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