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Bring On The Fall!

It's finally September, and to that I say, BRING ON THE FALL!  I am excited about the cooler temperatures, watching college football games (Hotty Toddy!), and all the cozy things.  It's just time.  Summer hasn't been brutally hot like last year, but View Post

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Another Year Older

I'm coming to you with this blog post as another year older! Maybe that's why my blogging has slowed down so much? Haha! I'm really struggling to get it together and blog more often, but the truth is that life isn't very exciting at the moment. I'm View Post

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Good While It Lasted

Ahhh, the cooler weather was good while it lasted last week.  I know you won't believe me when I say I had to put my fuzzy housecoat on to sit outside on the patio a couple of mornings because it was so cool!  By the way, is "housecoat" a Southern View Post

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Roasting

We are still ROASTING over here in Mississippi!  I swear, we've had one little shower of rain (on the other side of town) since the July 4th weekend.  It is extremely hot and dry.  I pray that we can get some rain this week.  This was Thursday's real View Post

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Getting the Chores Done

It felt so good to get all the big chores done over the past two days.  I love when my house is clean and uncluttered, and this will help me focus my attention on other things this week.  I still need to change the sheets on our bed, but that will View Post

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Good Morning Monday

Good morning!  It's Monday again, and the weeks are just flying by.  Pretty soon, schools will be starting again around where I live.  I've even heard of some in our state starting next week!  Yikes!  Young Man is set to start back at college in the View Post

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I Thought I Messed Up Big Time!

I thought I messed up big time yesterday! I logged in to Wordpress to finally make a blog post and saw that I had some updates that I needed to do. I did them all, but one had special instructions to log into my hosting company to complete. Well, I View Post

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Making Time to Blog

Making time to blog has been a challenge lately.  I can remember over 10 years ago, working full time in the school library (which required 4:30 AM wake-ups for a commute) and still being able to blog and work on big blogging campaigns while still View Post

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