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Will You Still Love Me If I’m Not Mary Poppins?

One of my favorite scenes in Mary Poppins is when she has just met the Banks children, and she measures them with a tape measure which is printed with attributes about them right at their heights.  When Mary Poppins is then measured, the tape measure reads, “Practically Perfect in Every Way.” I’m here to say [...]

7 Quick Takes: August 6, 2010 (Vol. 48)

~ 1 ~ From the “You’ve Got to Be Kidding, Right?” Department: My Mom had follow up appointments this week with the surgeon from her emergency open heart surgery on July 1st, and then with her cardiologist.  There was some discussion of recent chest pain she has been having, and so she is having a [...]

Top Ten Things I Have Been Thinking Of Lately

It seems like I have been a little aimless lately. I had been wanting to participate in Top Ten Tuesday and figured, “Hey, why not just talk about what kinds of things I have been thinking of lately?”  So, here are my random things that I have been pondering on. 1.  Am I ever going [...]

How Not To Do a Big Baking Evening

My friend Myra, at My Blessed Life, started a weekly carnival (or meme) a couple of months ago called Friday Fails (with a tag line that is so true – “Because a blessed life is not always a perfect life.”) I usually don’t have to search too long to find my little fails throughout the [...]

How Do You Get Caught Up?

I don’t know if it’s the weather or so much sickness going around or just the time of year, but it seems like a lot of people that I have talked to lately report just feeling behind in just about everything.  I am feeling like that too.  So, of course, I know that none of [...]

7 Quick Takes: February 12, 2010 (Vol. 29)

~ 1 ~ I still haven’t gotten caught up from Blissdom 2010.  I promise that it is my intention to write about it very, very soon.  But, here is a sneak peek of my Blissdom experience (one of the few pictures I got)…   That’s me, George Duran (formerly of Food Network’s Ham on the [...]

Strategies For Getting Caught Up On Email for the Easily Distracted

Did that title catch your eye?  It probably means that you are a lot like me.  I have the best of intentions to get caught up on email, but then one email makes me say, “Oh yeah — I meant to check that on Facebook.”  Or, maybe an email mentions an idea that I want [...]

Real Life Confessions: The Lack of Focus Edition

People online say it, and so do people I know in person, “Angie — you do so much.  You have it all together.  How do you do it all?” I don’t. That is — I don’t have it all together and I don’t do it all.  As a matter of fact, I’m feeling a bit [...]

The Art of Egg Arranging

Do you ever do something that makes perfect sense to you only to have someone else think that it’s odd?   I suppose I should have had a clue that my egg arranging was not necessarily the norm when I had to coach Eric about what pattern to use eggs in the carton.  You see, I’m [...]

Real Life Confessions: I Really, Really Bribed My Kids

Oh sure, I’ve admitted to bribing my kids before, like when I shared that I will pay them a dime every time they try a new food (or a food that they already know they don’t care for).  And, darn it — I stand by that bribery.  It hardly costs me anything and I can’t [...]

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