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Green Week :: Day 3

12 March 2009

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Looking For Spring I feel ready for Spring to burst into my life at any minute. I think Spring got frozen under the sheet of ice on my driveway. I look for hope in everything but politics. I look to God for a sense of order. I look to family for support and laughter. I [...]

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Green Week :: Day 2

11 March 2009

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Refresh I found refreshment in embracing a positive outlook on my day. Mint tea helped, too. The “blessings” of my healthy, fun and love-filled life often get swept under the rug unless I reboot my thinking to be less crabby and more refreshed…. I was late getting my garbage can out to the curb but [...]

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Green Week :: Day 1

10 March 2009

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Green Week Salt and Chocolate blog writer, Mary Beth, has been doing a photographic essay or “noticing” project about the color GREEN called Green Week! Here I sit, a Minnesotan expecting yet another winter storm today, struggling to find spring-filled relief and inspiration. (cleaning, walking, decorating, shopping, cleaning – did I say that already?) I [...]

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Closet 1: The Journey Begins

6 March 2009

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I straightened up the entryway coat closet to get my closet-mojo a flamin’ for The Masked Mommy’s Closet Pow-Wow. Okay, I re-eeally want to post my bedroom closet but she, yes she, (I decided my bedroom closet is female), is still being tackled. Tune back in for the before and afters of la closet de [...]

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morning:: noon :: night

5 March 2009

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Molly loves to play with her “guys” and “babies” (fisher price little people) in the doll house. Sample day at the local membership mega-mart. Molly struggles to stay awake to eat her chip crumb snack from the sample lady that thought salsa would be too spicy for her to eat. Ryan chilled in the freezer [...]

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Grasping for Air…Closet Clutter

4 March 2009

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Acrostic Clutter Poem by Jess Careless Leavings Under Tons of “Tomorrows” Ensuring Regret I hate clutter. Let me be clear. I have clutter. LOTS of clutter. I am drawing a line in the sand. Oh, how a beach vacation sounds delightful right about now…cold feet…I digress. You may remember I have been dreaming about closet [...]

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My Neat Pete, My Husband, My Opposite

3 March 2009

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My Favorite… Happy Birthday Peter! You are finally as old and as wise as I. You are many things, but one thing you are not, is lame. In other words, you are super awesome. Together Till the End Though you annoy me, on certain crabby days I count you as a blessing in many fantastic [...]

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The Five Love Language for Kids

2 March 2009

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Showing Young Kids Love Kids soak up love like little sponges. Kids can tap a parent’s love faucet from dawn to dusk..and then some, still thirsty for more love. By days end, I am tired. Just the thought of putting more of myself out there to help others is daunting. So with a selfish heart [...]

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Love is…

28 February 2009

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What is love to me? Love Is… A champion of virtue Smitten with sacrifice Ever-ready to defy hatred Bold  in giving Defeated only by fear or laziness Love is good I am avoiding typing real paragraphs for my posts these days. I sorta like my photo essay/poem vibe. I hope you do too. However, I [...]

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Winter Sun Rays

26 February 2009

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Just when my mind is ready to snap from being unable to paint anything outside, open the bedroom windows or get a grip on running my home, I find a moment or two like these… Winter sun rays Brighter than summer days Snow banks beam light Warm sunspot, just right Children bounce off the wall [...]

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