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Adobe Lightroom to the Rescue! Fix-It Friday

Friday, November 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It’s been too long since I’ve participated in Fix-It Friday with I Heart Faces, and for some reason, I just felt like jumping back in today. Maybe I haven’t been taking enough pictures myself and I’m itching to edit something. Could be…. As usual, I took an original SOOC photo (this one is from Susan [...]

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Middle of the Night Phone Calls Are Never Good News

Thursday, November 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

No one likes to hear a phone ringing in the wee hours of the morning. Phone calls at odd hours of the night typically put me into instant panic mode. Who has been in an accident? Which of my friends or family members have been rushed to the hospital? The fact is, middle of the [...]

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Incriminating Photos

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 By 51 Comments

My kids are so guilty. Take a look at the evidence. This is a glimpse of what they did on August 9, 2009: August 9th just happens to be the last day my long lost waterproof camera was used. And these just happen to be the last 5 pictures taken on that lost camera. The [...]

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Hold the Presses! I Got Out my Sewing Machine Today!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Did I mention that I was sick? Yep, full blown, nasty cold. I will admit that I am feeling better today. The body aches are gone. But my nose is more stuffed and I am having horrible hot and cold flashes. Instead of resting like a normal sick person, I babysat this morning and sewed [...]

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A Lesson on Budgeting….and Gratitude

Monday, November 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Thanks to a conversation I had with a friend from church last night, I have a little lesson in budgeting for you today. From Wikipedia – Zero-based budgeting: Zero-based budgeting is a technique of planning and decision-making which reverses the working process of traditional budgeting. In traditional incremental budgeting, departmental managers justify only increases over [...]

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Shine

Sunday, November 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Last night, thanks to a post on Life with Kaishon, I found a perfect meme for me today. Over the weekend, with all of the cleaning going on, I had a chance to go in and out of the bedrooms upstairs. On one quick trip into Kitkat’s room to drop something off, I took a [...]

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The Benefits of Spending the Day Cleaning:

Sunday, November 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment

1 – Everything just plain looks better. 2 – Work is great family bonding time. 3 – Having six black garbage bags of things to give away feels so liberating! 4 – The kids finally have weather-appropriate clothes to wear (although I am VERY sad to report that we have yet to find the bin [...]

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Give Me Your Best Shot – Carving

Friday, November 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

My poor, poor kids. First, we waited until the last minute to take a trip to the pumpkin patch. Then we brought home ONE pumpkin. And then that one pumpkin sat on our kitchen table until three days after Halloween. Un-carved. Neglected. Necco was desperate to carve our lone pumpkin. Every night, for several nights [...]

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My Wedding Night STUNK!

Thursday, November 5, 2009 By 38 Comments

MamaKat asked me to tell you about my most humorous wedding experience. I can’t believe I’m about to blog about my wedding night. And I’m not sure how to put this delicately. Let’s just say we laughed about it that night and we continue to laugh about it 14 years later. Here’s how it happened: [...]

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Growing Pains?

Thursday, November 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

No, I’m not referring to that endearing show from the 80′s…. Although right about now I might not mind watching an episode or two for the sake of nostalgia. I am instead referring to my new domain name! I have taken away the blogspot address and replaced it with my new name: http://betterinbulk.net/. Please note [...]

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