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Going Postal – Mailbox First World Problems
What's up with my weird New Jersey mailbox? Sorting through the options in mailboxes, a real first world problem.
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Falling Into Home Improvement
Yesterday was the first day of Autumn…but the weather here in Hampton Roads is still clinging to summer. It’s a balmy 88 degrees and slightly muggy. Perfect beach weather, ha ha! So it’s not the crisp New England falls I remember from my youth, but it does put me in the mood for some home improvement projects!
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How to run errands with children…
I ran errands today. Not shocking. I do that from time to time. What seemed to be noteworthy to a friend I ran into at the grocery store was that I did it with five children en tow. Only three were mine, two were on loan from a friend since the summer program her two children had been attending terminated a week before school began (crazy) and she needed someone to fill in the gap. That someone was me!
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Pool of trouble…
We bought this house a year ago, particularly because it has a wonderful in-ground pool in the backyard. We have three active children, of which the youngest two aged 9 and 7, are full of energy and love to be active having fun. The oldest one, 14, is more at ease with his nose glued to his computer screen or a video game console. So last summer, the two youngest spent every waking moment swimming that they could. It was great for me, because with the stress of having just moved in and not being able to find most of our stuff, I wasn’t happy leaving the house knowing I…
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Been a long time…
Well, I just noticed that it’s been an indecently long time since I have written. And I guess it’s high time I got it together and updated. Its down to the last weeks before my husband returns from this latest deployment. I am excited and nervous. Nervous that he has a mental image of what the house we moved into almost a year ago looks like, and that the expectations are high. There’s still a lot of unpacked boxes and odds and ends I haven’t quite figured out what to do with in this new house. It has been busy. It seems like every day a thousand things are on…
