Amazing what a couple of creative kids can do with some duct tape, a squash, and a few leaves
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Sometimes at dinnertime when I’m pulling out my worn stack of Corelle plates, the same ones I’ve been using for 15 years, I imagine buying new dishes. Something square and sleek and Asian-influenced, perhaps. Like this. Or maybe this? I look at prices and remember I’d need at least enough to serve 16.  I...
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My husband and I joked when our first daughter was little that she was always a few months ahead of us. We’d buy her a new toy, watch her play with it, and realize with chagrin (…continue reading at BlogHer)
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The other day I had fun making a bunch of small bright bags using scrap fabric. As it gets closer to Christmas, I’ll be watching for good prices on remnants of Christmas fabric, but this time around I used fabric that I already had. I’ve made these bags before using drawstrings, but decided to...
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The winner of the Cheer detergent giveaway is commenter # 47- Allie Zirkle at Life in the Z Lane.  Congrats, Allie!!
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I have a friend named Ree, and she has a brand new cookbook. I know that almost everyone already knows and loves her, but after meeting and hanging out with her husband Marlboro Man and two of their kids in the Dominican Republic, I feel a special fondness for her.  Ladd is the real...
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…that I have it all together around here, let me reassure you with just one tiny example. (My apologies if you’ve heard this one already! ) A good two months after our two older-adopted girls came home from Ethiopia, one of them brought me into her room, tugged at the bedsheets, and said in...
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I have a small lamp on my bedside table. One day it fell on the floor, causing the lamp shade to rip away from the ring at the top edge where it was attached to the lamp. I thought about buying a new shade. But the other day when buying Modge Podge and pretty...
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..to this? I do so deeply that it makes my heart ache… ———— Last year on this day I was in the Dominican Republic meeting Maicol. This week another group of bloggers is going to see Compassion’s work in El Salvador
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