November 2009

Thanksgiving Weekend

November 30, 2009

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Bar Night

November 29, 2009

The day before Thanksgiving is supposedly the Biggest Bar night of the year. Really? I have never heard of that before, and yet, we heard it on the news a hundred times over and over all day long. I have heard that it is the biggest revenue day for restaurants since everyone is cooking the [...]

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Black Friday 2009

November 29, 2009

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Melody, Megan, Baby Lynn and I hit up the early sale at Walmart for Black Friday this year. We woke up after 5am, didn’t have to wait in any line (until checkout) and got everything on our list.  We planned ahead by walking around the store the night before [...]

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A Very Monkey Christmas – updated with winner

November 24, 2009

I was asked to host a preview party for this adorable new Christmas cartoon.  I jumped at the chance if for no other reason than to get Erika and Jackson to come up a day early to Detroit, lol. I put out the invites on Facebook but we had some last minute cancellations.  The movie [...]

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Wondering What to Buy?

November 24, 2009

Holiday shopping season is here again and the Global Influence network has some great gift ideas for you, tried and tested by real moms. Click on the links to check out what our team of reviewers had to say about each of these gift ideas, and then take a moment to enter our fun giveaway [...]

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Family

November 24, 2009

A highlight of my trip so far has been seeing Megan perform in her local Kiwanis Variety Show. She so enjoys doing it, and I totally enjoyed watching her. There was singing by the Mighty Kiwanis Choir (that’s what Megan is a part of) and some solos by her school Choral teacher (fabulous), a local [...]

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Old Friends

November 23, 2009

Image by adriennevh via Flickr And by old I mean friends that have been friend afor a long time, not that any of them (or I) are old by any means. Anyways, when I was younger (note not young, but younger), I had a core group of friends in high school.  In alphabetical order and [...]

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Home

November 19, 2009

Home is where the Heart is. A truer statement has never been stated.  The house I came home to last night is no longer my mom’s house, that much is true.  Everything is changed, not for the worse but just different.  The paint colors, the decor, the air, is different. But the heart, her heart, [...]

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Lights Out!

November 18, 2009

Image via Wikipedia It is the rainy season in Los Angeles now, not that any rain will actually fall, but technically it is the rainy season. I remember one rainy season mom was in town and at the first sign of lightning and sound of thunder my kids and I started gathering candles. She looked [...]

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Prayers, Thoughts, Whatever you can spare

November 17, 2009

A dear blogging friend Anissa Mayhew has had a stroke and is in the ICU in Atlanta Ga. She is a beautiful, caring, funny person, who has given to so many and taken from so few.  Right now she needs all the prayers, thoughts or whatever you can spare.  Her husband Peter is vigilant by [...]

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