We love Hanes at our house. Socks, tees, underwear. You know, the basics. I have two $50 Hanes gift cards up for grabs, so you can fill in the all the back-to-school shopping spots that need filling. Come one, come all. Fill your underwear drawers, it’s on me. Giveaway Details: 1. To enter the Hanes giveaway leave a comment here.2. Leave ONE comment on this post between today and Monday September 14th Midnight, MST. A winner will be announced Tuesday…
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If you don’t have anything nice to say about IKEA, don’t say anything at all. At least within my hearing distance. I love that place to bits and pieces. We spent what felt like the entire day today at IKEA getting finishing details for the new bathroom. Stuff you need, but don’t think about until the end of the project. Like a toilet paper holder, towel rack, garbage can. It’s not glamorous but somebody has to do it. Aside from…
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Remember that fantastic Art Weekend in San Francisco that I talked about a little while back? Well, we’re totally doing one in Salt Lake City in November. Hooray! So for all of you who live in or near Utah, sign up asap! And for all those who might consider traveling in for the event (totally worth it, by the way) we’re in the middle of negotiating room rates. You totally want to get in on this, I promise. Any other…
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There’s no school tomorrow, hip hip hooray! Not that school ever stands in our way of pulling kids out for traveling adventures {my apologies mrs.wright} but it helps if there really is no school so I don’t feel guilty about it. Tomorrow afternoon we’re having a BBQ with friends, my fridge is clean {it doesn’t happen that often, so it’s reason enough to celebrate} and my pantry is filled to the brim with Diet Dr. Pepper. I’m getting ready to…
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In large part because of my mother, my earliest memories include books. I was immersed in books from the word go. Three of my four sisters are/were librarians. I was a librarian in college, but that’s a story for another day. My sister-in-law is a master librarian. In fact almost every memory I have has a book memory associated with it. Do you know what I mean by that? This summer while driving down the coast of California for nearly…
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Candidly: it’s been a rough week with the kiddos. Teething misery for one, repeated tantrums for the other, who feels obligated to hoist himself into the baby’s crib and wake him mere minutes after that baby has found desperate comfort in sleep. Every day. Too-early mornings, too-late nights, a long list of unfinished chores and projects as I face the weekend, which means I’ll be playing catch-up instead of in the sun. I am, in a word: frazzled. Out of…
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You know how once your kids reach a certain age, invitations to birthday parties start flowing in and you have to start coming up with creative, age appropriate gifts on a ridiculously regular basis? Me too. This is where a couple of really clever, ahead of the game moms come into the picture: Lisa Fielding and Stefanie Katz-Rothman created Gift Hero to take the guessing out of gift giving. It’s pretty simple: you go to their site and pick the…
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It’s time for back to school, and what to pack for lunch you might ask? Well here are some fun ideas to keep your kids healthy and well fed while at school. First, as you prepare their lunches, think “rainbow.” You want their lunch to be as colorful as a rainbow. Lots of fruits, veggies and good proteins. Protein is so important, because it is a brain food. and when they are tired and lunch comes around they need to…
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we’ve been up to here in peaches this week, with more to come and tomatoes to follow. then apples. It’s my third year for home-canning the last taste of summer, which hardly makes me a pro but I can honestly say it’s so fulfilling. A couple of hot steamy hours in the kitchen (ok, now it sounds really exciting) with all burners going and every inch of counter space in use. Then ta da! These golden beauties. And my neighbor…
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