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Time for Susanne’s weekly meme, Friday’s Fave Five, a chance to reflect and pick five things from this past week that make us happy.
1. Big Mama’s soup. I had a friend over for lunch this week and in my search for just the right new recipe to experiment on my friend with try, I came [...]
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First up, I have a winner to announce. The winner of The Friends We Keep (and the bonus 40-minute Bible study) is:
Comment #20 –Viv
Congrats, Viv!
Also, I found out this week that my blog has been nominated for three awards in the Book Blogger Appreciation Week Awards. I don’t know who nominated me, but whoever [...]
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It’s Friday again, which means Susanne’s hosting Friday’s Fave Five. Hop over there to visit other participants. But in the meantime, here are five things I’ve enjoyed this week.
1. Smoothies A new blender arrived at our house a week or so ago, and we have been on a major smoothie kick. The blender gets used [...]
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I’m once again joining Susanne for her Friday’s Fave Five carnival. Here are five of my favorite things from this past week:
1. Breathing through my nose. It’s amazing what we take for granted. But after 11 days of not being able to breathe through my nose, I am thrilled beyond reason that I can actually [...]
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C. (10) has been reminding me for over a week that my 3-Year Blogiversary was coming. I knew it was sometime in March, but he had searched back through the archives to find out exactly when I started Callapidder Days. And as you may have guessed by now, it was on March 10, 2006.
So, Happy [...]
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I opened my email this afternoon to discover a shocking and exciting announcement:
Callapidder Days is a finalist in Scholastic Parent & Child’s 2009 Mommy Blogger Awards! Woo-hoo!
I am thrilled and flattered and excited and, quite honestly, a little intimidated. My fellow finalists are incredible bloggers and I am honored to be included with them.
I didn’t [...]
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I’m joining Susanne’s weekly carnival this week, called Friday’s Fave Five, where she invites us to share about five favorite things from the past week. This week was a little rough, emotionally (as is evidenced by the fact that the boys and I made a grocery store run this week solely to stock the freezer [...]
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I was tagged by Veggiemom from Insanity, Table for 4 for a little photo meme. Here are the rules:
Find your 5th photo file folder,
then the 5th photo in that file folder.
Post that picture on your blog.
Tag 5 others to do the same.
Here’s my picture:
That would be L., about a year ago, after he emptied his [...]
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When I finally got on the computer this morning, I saw that my oldest son, C., had left a comment on my last post. That comment says: “Could you please write a new post soon?”
C. faithfully checks my blog almost daily, and though he isn’t crazy about my posts involving book giveaways or reviews, he [...]
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Today is the big day: BooMama’s 2008 Christmas Tour of Homes! In which many, many bloggers share pictures of their holiday decor and then ignore all the baking and wrapping and shopping they should be doing in order to virtually visit everyone’s homes. Sounds like a perfect day to me! So come on in, have [...]
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