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Thanks to Iris at Sting My Heart for hosting Thankful Thursday.
Since we will be moving in a couple of months I have been cleaning things out. Finding a new home for things we don’t need and boxing up things to keep. I am thankful for the Freecycle program that allows me to find [...]

13 Things I keep saying I am going to do or am in the middle of but haven’t finish…

Printing all my photos or sending off to be printed, labeling the back of the photos, and then putting the photos into albums
Give the clothes I no longer wear to someone who needs them
sell items on craigslist [...]

I came in this morning at 213lbs. Up 3 lbs from last week. My measurements are same.

 
11/28/07
12/5/07
12/12/07
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1/16/07
1/23/07
1/30/07

Neck
13 3/4″
13 3/4″
13 3/4″
14″
13 3/4″
13 3/4″
13 3/4″

Chest
42 1/3″
42 1/3″
42 1/3″
43″
43″
43″
43″

Arm
11 1/2″
11 1/2″
11 1/2″
12 1/2″
12 1/2″
12 1/2″
12 1/2″

Stomach
43 1/3″
42 1/3″
42 1/3″
43″
43″
43″
43″

Thigh
22″
22″
22″
22 1/4″
22 1/4″
22 1/4″
22 1/4″

No exercise this week. No journaling this week. No nothing. [...]

Looking for something to do on a rainy afternoon? A new website, Wuzzles and Puzzles has free printable puzzles, word games, mad grabs, and more to keep you and your kids busy for an afternoon. According to their website they have “more than 1100 free printable puzzles for you to test your brains [...]

January 28th Questions:
1. What famous person would you most like to have dinner with (living or dead) and what would you ask him/her?
I would want to have dinner with Audry Niffenegger. She wrote my new favorite book, The Time Traveler’s Wife. I would ask her how she came up the concept for the [...]

This week’s menu:

Monday

breakfast - french toast sticks
lunch - PBJ sandwiches
dinner - grilled chicken

Tuesday

breakfast - toast with jelly
lunch - mac & cheese with tuna
dinner - Sausage links

Wednesday

breakfast - oatmeal
lunch - grilled cheese sandwiches
dinner - pancakes

Thursday

breakfast - cinnamon toast
lunch - PBJ sandwiches
dinner - breakfast bake

Friday

breakfast - cereal
lunch - leftover breakfast bake
dinner - sloppy joes

Saturday

breakfast - biscuits
lunch [...]

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Bloggy Giveaways is hosting a Giveaway Carnival. Everyone that links up at Bloggy Giveaways is holding a contest. [...]

I was given this great award by Jacki at Moving at the Speed of Life. If you have not visited her blog, go check it out. She has also started a book review blog called the Book Nook and has asked that I be a reviewer. So if you are an avid [...]

Hosted by TNChick
This week’s theme is Old Fashioned . Last summer we took the kids to the Fire Museum of Maryland. The kids had a great time. There was even a play room with a real fire engine for them to play on. Below is a picture we took of [...]

Appetizer
How many times per day do you usually laugh?
Too many to count. My children are constantly doing crazy things.
Soup
What do your sunglasses look like?
metal, black, and cheap
Salad
You win a free trip to anywhere on your continent, but you have to travel by train. Where do you go?
New York, New York. From where I [...]