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Who Knew?

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My entire life whenever I sang “Surfin’ USA” I would sing “If everybody had a notion across the USA.” It wasn’t until I heard my girls singing it a couple of weeks ago that I learned that I have been singing the wrong words for about three decades. Did you know that the Beach Boys are actually saying “If everybody… Read more »

Seven Years of Bad Luck All in One Day

It all started this morning when Adrienne accidentally broke my hand mirror.About an hour later Erica yelled, “Mommy, the nail polish fell and broke and spilled all over the floor!” (And all over her jeans!) As soon as we got the nail polish all cleaned up, I opened the kitchen cabinet and a bottle of ketchup came flying out and… Read more »

How the Whole Donny Thing Came About: It’s a Long Post, but Worth Taking the Time to Read!!

thirty years ago today

  When I was about nine years old I developed a huge crush on Donny Osmond. I soon learned that he was a Mormon. As a Catholic living in New Jersey, I didn’t even know other religions existed, so the concept of Mormon meant nothing to me. I soon learned that it meant he didn’t drink or smoke. As the… Read more »

The House is Painted, The Grout is Clean, The Orange and Palm Trees Sway

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The last time we bought paint to paint the inside of our house I had the guy at Home Depot print off an extra label of the color formula so I could keep it in my wallet and buy a gallon if I ever needed one for touch-ups. Needless to say, we were beyond SHOCKED when we went back two… Read more »