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Celebrating My Birthday With Duran Duran

  It started this past April.  My high school friend “E” sent me a private message on Facebook telling me Duran Duran would be performing in Memphis on August 17, three days before my 38th birthday.  Did I want to make plans to meet up and View Post

The Week Of Firsts

Whose kids bounded into the door of the school with exuberance and came home telling me he LOVED being a first grader this past week?  Mine!  He also pulled out his other front tooth (can you guess what all we want for Christmas is?), found View Post

#Photobomb- Hair Roller Edition

I hate it when my son and I take a semi-decent pic while out to eat, only to get photobombed by Plastic Hair Roller Lady. *Can’t believe people still use plastic hair rollers. *Can’t believe people wear them in public. View Post

Funny Facebook Pictures

I will be spending my last weekend of summer freedom watching the playback videos of Duran Duran showing the world how it’s done in Hyde Park pre-Olympics, making sure all laundry is clean, gathering up my teaching/library supplies, and snuggling the View Post

My Child Is A Reluctant Reader

We couldn’t wait for the day when we would be able to hear E.B. read books to us.  As a mom, it was a parenting milestone I looked forward to.  As a librarian, I know how important establishing good reading habits early on can make all the View Post

A Review of Sea Life Aquarium- Grapevine, Texas

We spent an entire day at Grapevine Mills Mall in Grapevine, Texas while on our family vacation.  Besides all of the many, many stores to shop at, the mall is also home to Legoland Discovery Center and Sea Life Aquarium.  After a fabulous lunch at View Post

The Hunt- Day 9: Energy Conservation

Today is my final post about “The Hunt: 11 Days Of Doing” from DoSomething.org, the nation’s largest organization for teens and social change, in partnership with Lenovo, the world’s second largest PC maker who helped found the campaign last year, View Post

Cooped Up

  Except for a short trip to the after hours clinic this past Saturday for a shot and a prescription and one short trip around the corner to see my parents Monday evening because I had not seen them in a week, I have been cooped up in our View Post

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