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This is the birthday edition of Thankful Thursday!! Today is our oldest daughter's birthday!!  She is 14!! One more year and she's got her driver's permit. One more year after that and she's driving! Two more years after that and she's graduating from college and … [Read more...]

I read a blog post yesterday about what we all let our kids do and not do.... About how much we should monitor our kids from all the nastiness in the world.  Mainly, the nastiness on the internet. Now, I don't really know that the owner of this blog homeschools, but some of … [Read more...]

I just heard that Nov. 29th is "Pay a Blogger Day"! The idea is that a lot of bloggers give you nuggets of advice, inspiration, knowledge or just plain entertainment and if you want to thank them for that, then today is the day! All you have to do is find the Paypal … [Read more...]

Yes, Mr. Turkey, you are delicious.  One of the many things I am thankful for on this day! Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!   ~Nicole~ … [Read more...]

If you read my post about being crunchy vs. granola, then you know that I try to be conscious of my decisions on a day to day basis.  What does that mean?  Well, it means that when I buy produce at the grocery store or farmer’s market, not only do I buy mostly organic produce, … [Read more...]

Have you joined No More Rack yet?? I know I’ve told you about it before, but right now, they have some awesome deals going on!  I just scored a FREE $20 gift code for YMI Divine!   Anyway, the deals change everyday and I love going to see what I can get!   … [Read more...]

I know lots of you are already checking out the Black Friday ads.   Have you figured out what your strategy is yet?  Are you even going to bother getting out and going shopping on that day or do you avoid it at all cost??   I go back and forth… if there is … [Read more...]

Today is November 11, 2011... which of course, is 11-11-11... no matter what country you are in and what order you put the month and day, it's the same day!!! So, I thought, in honor of the day, I would give you a list of fun things to celebrate the day! In no particular … [Read more...]