Tip Tuesday – Don’t Waste Your Time

I spend a lot of time wasting it. This is not always bad. Sometimes “wasting” time is an enjoyable recreational activity. Here is a list of a few time wasters you’d be better off avoiding. Please add to it and save us all so we can waste our time on other [...]

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Tip Tuesday – Save a Penny

With a leettle expert advice, we’ve decided the new roof can wait for a few years while we save up to pay for it in cash. If things get really bad, we may send Laylee and Magoo to live in the attic holding pots and pans. Maybe they’ll make friends with the rats [...]

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Tip Tuesday - Cheer Up Little Fella

What cheers you? What brings you joy? When you need a quick pick-me up during the day, where do you turn?
Paint your toenails all different colors. If you really want to cheer up, paint your daughter’s too. If you REALLY need something extra, paint your son’s as well and see how [...]

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The Faeries are Coming!

Thanks to everyone for your awesome suggestions for Laylee’s faerie birthday. You people know how to part-tay! I’m sending the DYM shirt out to Heffalump for her suggestion of little flower pots and tools so the kids can create their own faerie gardens at home. I love this idea for its creativity, [...]

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Tip Tuesday – Faeries (A Contest)

Laylee’s birthday party is coming up soon, really soon. Like, how soon? Is it today mom? Is it lasterday? Does it touch today? When is it? Very very soon.
For some reason she only wants to invite people who are at least a year older than she is, [...]

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Tip Tuesday – No Place Like Home?

I went to public school. I liked public school, minus the years of purgatory generally referred to as Junior High. Would someone please tell me next time before I decide to exhibit my keychain collection in the school library in between the guy who collects bugs and the girl who collects miniature plastic [...]

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Tip Tuesday – Just a Smidge Country

I grew up hating country music.  HATE.  I’m not sure why except that hating coutry music was the cool thing to do and since I was not cool, I spent a lot of time doing the things that would supposedly transform me into that enviable chilly state.
No one probably cared that I didn’t listen to [...]

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Tip Tuesday – Preschool Mania

Is your infant enrolled in preschool for the 2009-2010 school year?  Slacker!  Has she taken the Pre-MCATs yet?  The horror!
Ever since reading Jenny’s post about preschool registration, I have become completely obsessed with the process and it’s bringin’ me down, man.  It’s gettin’ me low.

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Tip Tuesday – Not Meant to Be

Tips are now back on Tuesdays because, hey, I’m the boss of this blog.
My sister-in-law and her roommates used to always ask me for romance advice because I’m totally married so I know pretty much all there is to know about dating and romance.  The advice was so good that a couple of months ago [...]

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Weekend Tip-Off: Saving Time

I find it interesting that my last post was about how I don’t have time and I’ve been putting off asking for time-saving tips until I had the time to write about it.
My biggest advice for saving time is something I haven’t been doing myself lately. THINK! Take the time to think and [...]

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