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Watching Gas Prices Rise

I normally don't pay too much attention to gas prices because I have to buy the gas and I already know without looking that it's just too darn high. The other morning I was in a rush, the tank was on "E", and I had to get to the gas station on air View Post

Lego Cake

Once E.B. decided he wanted to have a Lego-themed birthday party, I was too excited because I couldn’t wait for our “cake lady” to make his Lego cake.  I just knew it would be cute.  This woman had made my birthday cakes when I was little View Post

6 Years

Well.  It happened.  E.B. turned 6 years old last Thursday.  When I started my blog he had just turned three.  Three.  Break a mama’s heart! His four-year-long obsession with trains and Thomas the Tank Engine has been View Post

Rare Southern Snow

It has been March of 2008 since our little town has seen any sort of significant snowfall.  The snow has danced above and below us over the past two years, but nothing to cancel school and work which is THE GOAL. The Weather Channel started View Post

Free With Coupons (Kroger, Dollar General)

After watching Extreme Couponing on TLC last week, I was fired up about slashing our grocery bill by using coupons and taking advantage of great deals on items we use the most around our home.  After scouring the sales flyers and matching them View Post

The New Year’s Eve MoonPie Drop

New Year's Eve was completely tame around our home.  Cracked Daddy had to work, so E.B. and I spent the whole day and evening being quite lazy because it's been the only day since Christmas that we've been home with absolutely no prior commitments.  View Post

What Happens Tomorrow

Raise your hand if you're still recovering from Christmas. That would be me, too.  I've been an organizing fool, playing mean games of Hungry Hungry Hippos, wondering just how many Legos are too many,  trying to entertain a stir-crazy 5 year old View Post

How To Decorate a Christmas Tree

My mom is a whirling dervish when it comes to the holidays and she definitely knows how to decorate a Christmas tree.  She has a million social functions, church function, and just functions on pure adrenaline that we sometimes have to catch up by View Post

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