From Perry III Tomorrow is the end of the Vision Forum end of the year inventory reduction sale. I was browsing the sale before bed and saw a few items I would like to humbly submit for your consideration. A few I personally own and a few I’m going to invest in for the future [...]
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Hubby is the oldest of six children. Last week was the first time that hubby’s entire family has ever been together on Christmas. It was a momentous occasion, and needed to be preserved. Of course, they wanted to include all of the spouses and children as well. “Listen up, people! It’s picture time! Front and [...]
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If you’re keeping track, we’re not home yet. We stopped in for a 9:00 dinner with the aunts in Fort Worth last night, then hit the road again some time after 10. Very soon we were straining to keep our eyes open, so we decided discretion was the better part of valor and started looking [...]
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We’re making our way home, slowly, with a holiday hangover. Not the one you get from drinking too much. This is that headache you get from too many sweets and too many loud happy people in one house. It’s a good sort of complaint to have, but it doesn’t feel good. We drove for hours [...]
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The secret mission was to “drop in” on my parents who live 1000 miles away and are frequent readers of this blog. Christmas joy and photos to follow.
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Remember what I was going to do yesterday? Hubby and I had a better idea. First I thought of it, but it was too crazy and I didn’t mention it. Then he called me with THE SAME IDEA. So we decided it was a good one. We’re on a mission. Details to follow.
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We’ve had a lot of long days and late nights over the past 2 weeks, and in spite of the paper snowflakes and chains and the enormous poinsetta in the corner of the room, our house just doesn’t “feel” like Christmas this year. We don’t have a tree, and the colored lights on the deck [...]
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Here’s a little science lesson from real life. Remember those fun house mirrors? Do you know how they stretch you out and make you look tall and slim? It’s because they are curved inward – a concave curve, it’s called. Concave curves stretch the image, while convex curves compress the image. Guess what happens when [...]
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The boy is old enough now to know when he’s getting the short end of the stick. As I was getting ready to leave the house yesterday with several of the girls, he came to me with barely suppressed tears, trying his best to be grown up and mature. “Mom, can I go with you?” [...]
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Some days I still feel like that tired young mother years ago: First, I stayed up too late. I was stalling because it looked like the dog was in labor. She was pacing, and cramming her swollen body into every odd nook she could find. She usually sleeps under the children’s bunkbeds but doesn’t seem [...]
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I would love to hear your ideas over at Frugal Hacks. No ideas? Go see what others have said!
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Our boy may be the only one in the group, but having 8 sisters has certainly cemented certain concepts in his little noggin. Mainly concepts relating to color. This morning, I was looking for a cup to give him some cocoa. His blue cup with the cars on it was dirty, so I reached for [...]
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Did you miss the beginning? Start here: Big family in a small house, part 1: Bedrooms Big family in a small house, part 2: Storage Big family in a small house, part 3: the floor plan Although we have chosen to live in a small house for a time, we do want to be able [...]
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Well, we took a poll and most of you would want to know hypothetically speaking if Vision Forum were having a great hypothetical sale in which everything in the store is 20-50% off. Especially if they were also offering FREE hypothetical SHIPPING. Here’s a small sample of the very long list of 50-off favorites, presented [...]
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