last day

Yesterday was my last official day of nannying.  Sniff, sniff.  Some of you may have not known but I gave my notice with the family a few weeks ago. I have totally appreciated having a job and I think the boys/family are wonderful, but being a nanny is clearly not what I want to be [...]

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the place to be

It has been a very relaxing Christmas break. I arrived home on Tuesday feeling about a 2 on a scale of 1 to 10.  I was super congested, my throat HURT and my tonsils looked like they were growing cottage cheese, my ears were infected, and I hadn’t had a full night sleep in quite [...]

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lots o’ snow

I’m sure many of you heard that Northern Minnesota got dumped on with snow over the weekend.  Well, I can attest to that directly as I was there and actually became stranded by it.  My friend Kari and I went up to Duluth on Saturday to attend the wedding of our friend Erica.  Saturday was [...]

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Good Christmas song

For those of you looking for some new songs to add to the traditional Christmas music repetoire, I have a song for you.  I asked my friend Renee to make me a few mixed cds of Christmas music a few years ago and being the Christmas music aficionado that she is, she wonderfully obliged.  Pulling from [...]

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snuggling

It is 10:18pm and I am just two minutes away from shutting off my light and falling into a deep sleep.  I spent 13.5 hours nannying today.  Yes, you read that correctly: 13.5.  They had a party to attend at the end of the work day and so I stayed around later than usual.  That [...]

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Tension

For those of you who have traveled overseas before…or, for those of you who have traveled to any city/place other than your hometown,  you might agree that when you here that place mentioned in conversation or on the nightly news, your ears perk up.  Well, so it was this afternoon when I checked my email and [...]

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something meaningful

I’m sure many of you have heard of Don Henley before.  He is most notably known as the drummer/singer from The Eagles but he has also put out a lot of his own solo stuff.  And, if you are like me, you dig the Eagles material but could take or leave his solo stuff.  I mean, [...]

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Crazy expensive

Umm, has anyone purchased razors recently?  I had to pick up some refills for my Mach 3 last night, and I was blown away at how expensive they were!  All of the refills for it and for all of the better quality razors were at least $10 and most were more than that.  Of course there are [...]

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now I know

I figured out why God made little children so cute…it is so that you can’t hate them when they disobey or don’t nap or break things or do other things to annoy you.  Pretty clever.

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