Awesome and Not-So-Awesome

AWESOME: Getting together with a gaggle of friends for a “Christmas Cookie Exchange” party. What is a Christmas cookie exchange party you ask? It’s a bunch of women getting together to visit, catch up, laugh and just enjoy each other’s company. But we don’t come empty handed. Oh no. We show up with 6 dozen [...]

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My Dating Life of 2009

Dating changed significantly for me in 2009, in that my “hot” dates consisted of going out with my hubby or with my kids.
In November it was Ian’s turn again and he chose to eat at The Training Table. It’s been years since I’ve eaten there and the cheese fries still rock. And because the kids [...]

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Hi There

It’s been awhile. And now it’s been so awhile that I don’t know how to catch up.
I missed my yearly “Thanksgiving” post. Which isn’t to say that I’m not thankful, it’s just been a little crazy around the Nickel bunker.
I had surgery on my right rotator cuff about 2 1/2 weeks ago. I have photos [...]

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Smarty Pants

Yes, I know I completely skipped the obligatory Halloween post, and I’m OK with it. Summing up: It was fun. The kids were cute. They trick-or-treated for almost 2 hours and still have tons of candy to prove it. Sweet! Moving on…
On a different yet equally exciting note, this past week was Parent Teacher Conferences. [...]

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Round 2

Remember my resolve to take one child each month and spend an evening with them doing something of their choice? If not then you should read here or even here (did I forget to post about Emma’s date? Hmmm.).
The other night was the end of round 2 of me taking all of the kiddies out [...]

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And Deep Breath Out…

It’s been quite a month, which is my (valid!) excuse for my lack of posting the past few weeks.
We’re down-shifting from the crazy remodeling/fixing up the house phase, which I am not complaining about. Most of what we wanted to do is done AND it looks like we may be holding off listing the house [...]

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And It Continues

For all of the home improvement projects I’ve gotten myself into over the years, and for every time I tell myself that I will take BEFORE photos, I find it annoying and stupid odd that it is something I rarely actually accomplish. Grrr.
We’re still elbow deep in redo’s and renovations. After a lot of thought, [...]

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Bathtubs, Bats, and Noseblows

I keep waiting for things to slow down a little bit… just enough so I can stop, take a breath, and relax a little. Seeing as it’s been 9 months without much down time, it’s finally set in that this is the norm. SWEET!
The kids are back in the swing of things at school, and [...]

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It Started!

It happened. All of my kids are in school! My “babies” started 1st grade last week. No more preschool or kindergarten… these two are in the BIG league now. I have been looking forward to the day when all of my kids where in school, but surprisingly, I got a little sad watching them walk [...]

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Good Bye :(

I’m not ready for this thing called summer to end.
First of all, I was kind of screwed out of June. It rained most of the month, which meant it was kind of cold (relatively), and in all fairness, I think that Mother Nature should maybe throw in a bonus month. We could call it Augober.
Secondly, [...]

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