So one day last week, I took my oldest girl to school like I always do, just like any other normal weekday. Little did I know what I would encounter when I arrived back home. And when I pulled up in my driveway I. Just. Knew. Something was off. Something, something wasn’t right. I had a strange sense of foreboding that told me not to get out of the car….
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{Nourishing Traditions} Coconut Chicken Soup.
I love soup. Which is semi-unfortunate, because my husband is a meat-and-potatoes man who will only eat soup in the event that there’s a zombie apocalypse and soup the only thing left after the dog food is all gone. The few times I’ve served up soup for dinner, he’s gagged, flailed, seized, and fallen out on the floor in a big dramatic display. So I don’t cook soup very often,…
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{Trim Healthy Mama} Five Reasons You May Not be Losing Weight.
I’ll be honest… I got frustrated with Trim Healthy Mama a few weeks ago, which is why I decided to sort of put it on the back burner. It was frustrating to see so many of my friends melting away SO FAST and me, trying as hard as I could, and not seeing the scale budge one tiny bit. I mean, seriously… friends reporting 50 or 80 pounds losses, THATFAST,…
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{Money-Saving Monday} Ebooks, Tropical Traditions, and a Recipe.
I had always heard about Beth Moore, and how her books were just SO good, and whatever, and every time, I mentally rolled my eyes,thinking (arrogantly?), “I have a degree in BIBLE, for Pete’s sake. Please. I have heard ALL the speakers, read ALL the books, done ALL the Bible studies… I don’t need to hear from one more prim, makeup-less lady in a denim skirt with her hair in…
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Through Thick and Thin.
I first wrote this blog post about my BFF in 2011, and I have to repost it now so she KNOWS I love her. Thanks, L, for being a better friend to me than I deserved, for half my life… Tomorrow I get to see my best friend. Its been twenty months since I’ve seen her… the longest span of time since 1993 when we first met in the ETBU…
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{A Better 2014} Teaching My Kids About Money.
I was lucky enough to be raised by extremely thrifty parents. I’m pretty sure I never said thank you to them for that. Oh, it didn’t feel fortunate at the time, when I was the last one of my friends to get Kaepa shoes and real Jams, and my dad was dropping me off at Moore Middle School in a 1973 {paid for, immaculate, with only a handful of miles…
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Four Things I Want to do Better in 2014.
A new year is just around the corner, and with a new year comes comes RESOLUTIONS big plans for doing everything better. I don’t dare use the ‘r’-word because my friend Stacy at Stacy Makes Cents says that those never work… and there’s darn good reason for that. And yes, I can call her my friend, because we’ve commented at each other on Instagram a time or two, and I KNOW…
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Boogers and Tears.
I think I’ve told you before that Annie says the darndest things.You remember Annie… my crazy, nutty kid who poses like THIS when I try to take a picture of chopped olives… And the kid who put a boy in his place at Jumpin’ Jacks when she told him to LEAVE ME ALONE, YOU BALD-HEAD BABY!And the kid who was gonna tell the whole church from the baptistry to get…
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I Want to be a Nurse.
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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A Tour of Our Old House.
Yeah, we moved out of this house in May. I actually came across these pictures as I was searching for pics of Katie’s room ‘before,’ since her room is next up for a re-do. I never found those. Seems we lost a huge chunk of our ‘before’ pics somehow, which makes me want to cry. But I did find these, and remembered that I never posted them. They may be…
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The Best Dern Tootin’ Texas Style Chili.
Y’all. I have a confession to make, and it’s embarrassing: up until recently, I didn’t have a Texas Chili recipe because I always made my chili… from a mix. I know. I know! It was a shameful secret I lived with until an out-of-state relative called me to ask for my chili recipe, because she just *KNEW* that out of ALL the people she knew in Texas, I’d be…
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A Really Great Thanksgiving.
Susie with… how many rolls DID she eat?! I lost count…. Pretty baby. A few extra chins after all those rolls she ate… FYI, that outfit was long enough when I bought it a month ago. Slow down Susie! If you liked this post PLEASE share it with your friends! ~ Melissa Beene Taylor