Moving Forward
Happy Birthday, Dad!
November 18, 2008 in Family, Life, Memories, NABLOPOMO 2008Today is my dad’s birthday. He and I are pretty close. We’ve always had a really good relationship (I *am* daddy’s little girl, after all!), and it’s just gotten better since I’ve gotten older. Now that I live more than an hour away from...
Photo Book Coupons
November 17, 2008 in Holidays, NABLOPOMO 2008, ShoppingI love photo books. I made photo books of our wedding for our grandparents the first Christmas we were married. I think they make great gifts for others as well as keepsakes for ourselves. Plus, they’re fun to make. I have 10 coupon codes...
Weekly Winners — 11/09/08-11/15/08
November 16, 2008 in Cats, Family, Food, Life, NABLOPOMO 2008, Weekly Winners, Weight LossSpending a few hours together — my grandmother has been at a nursing home for the last two weeks for rehab because she broke her hip during a fall. She came home for a few hours on Saturday, and is expected back for good...
Wipe Out
November 15, 2008 in NABLOPOMO 2008, Oops!This is pretty funny. I literally laughed out loud as I watched it, though I felt horrible for the bride. If I were her, I would be pretty upset at the best man.
Redneck Fun
November 14, 2008 in Friends, Life, NABLOPOMO 2008Joe and I love to throw parties. We love having people over and entertaining. And, our most recent trip to Walmart sparked the idea for our next party — a redneck wine tasting party. Yes, seeing an endcap display of $3 wine made us...
Five Pounds
November 13, 2008 in Health and Fitness, Life, NABLOPOMO 2008, Weight Loss, weight watchersI hit my 5-pound loss at my weigh-in today with a total loss now of 5.4 pounds! I was pretty proud of myself. I had a feeling I had lost this week because I’m really starting to notice it in my stomach, but last...
Another Squirrel Attack
November 12, 2008 in Grrr, Life, NABLOPOMO 2008, The HomeLast year, we had an exclusion done to repair holes that squirrels had chewed in the side of our house and to make sure they were all out of our attic. Today, I woke up to the pitter patter of little squirrel feet running...
Lobbying for Legislation
November 11, 2008 in Life, NABLOPOMO 2008, News, Trying to Conceive (TTC)I’m getting involved in the upcoming legislative session. Tonight, I’m meeting with one of our state legislators to discuss the possibility of infertility legislation being introduced. Currently, 12 states require insurance companies to offer some kind of coverage for infertility treatments. Three states have...
The Great Box Project of ’08
November 10, 2008 in Life, NABLOPOMO 2008, The HomeIt’s like a whole new world in our storage room. The before: And the after: And all the trash we threw out: Miraculously, it only took us two Sundays to get our carport cleaned out and our storage room organized (the boxes on the...

