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I am a Comment Whore…

While talking to an acquaintance about my new blog she opened up and told me that she was a comment whore.  I had never heard that terminology before.  I’m sure she thought I looked shocked, but I was just internalizing.  The realization hit me like a ton of bricks…OMG, I’m a whore too!  It was

Listen Carefully

So, I was in the break room at just the perfect moment the other day and planned to share my story here on the blog.  However, my new friend Kim beat me to it on her blog…so I’m sharing the story from her point of view (which basically means I saved time because she already wrote

Whatcha Might Not Know…Skyline Chili

Whatcha Might Not Know…Skyline Chili

Locals will understand this…out-of-towners…tune in next week. I’ve never eaten Gold Star Chili…ever.  Nor do I plan to.  If I did I’d probably be banished from the city by my relatives.  We are a hard-core Skyline Chili family.  Relatives have owned them, worked at them and my dad actually runs one in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida that’s

Whatcha Might Not Know…Making My Bed

Although I’m the type of person who cannot go to bed at night nor leave for work in the morning without every dish out of the sink and the counters, island and table wiped off in my kitchen…I NEVER make my bed.  And that doesn’t mean that Andy does it.  It goes unmade.  Every morning. 

Memory Keeping

As I said in an earlier post, I am a scrapbooker/journal keeper/historian/story teller by nature. A friend of mine recently wrote a piece on her blog about traditions and memories. Here are some of the ways I preserve those memories. Annual Shutterfly Photo Books: Each year (since the digital online versions became available) I try

It’s In My Blood

Lately, my family blog has turned into a quick posting of a picture of Stella and/or Charlotte with maybe 1-2 sentences describing the situation. Yes, I started the blog to keep the relatives in touch with our quickly growing girls. And yes, it is accomplishing that task. However, I was hoping to blog more about