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In October 2009, a woman in our small town was diagnosed with cancer.  She kept it to herself for quite awhile until the treatments of chemo and radiation forced her to tell those closest to her.  All throughout her fight against cancer she continued working and living in her home…alone.  Then a few months ago,…

I have been DYING to get this Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker and when it finally arrived from CSN Stores, I couldn’t wait to get started with some ice cream! Since you need to store the ice cream bowl in the freezer, you have to wait 24 hours before making any ice cream. The instruction booklet comes…

I have been waking up nearly every morning with back pain and was constantly struggling to get comfortable while sleeping.  I haven’t been this uncomfortable since being pregnant.  So, when I was offered to review some items from CSN Stores, one item I wanted to get was new pillows.  Not cheap pillows, but really nice…

Things I Love… This is my feature where I get to share something that I just love. Since you are my friends, I like sharing things I love with others. It could be anything from a new product, food, recipe, song, image, to a person and everything in between. This will be something I am…

I have been checking out this new site and wanted to tell all you moms out there about it as well. Goalforit is a great website that offers charts for goal setting, chores, and behaviors as well as a way to make lists.  You can set up a chart for each child as well as…

Things I Love… This is my feature where I get to share something that I just love. Since you are my friends, I like sharing things I love with others. It could be anything from a new product, food, recipe, song, image, to a person and everything in between. This will be something I am…

I LOVE flavored coffee!  But, flavored coffee costs more.  I tried buying the generic flavored coffee, but it just wasn’t any good.  My favorite coffee is Dunkin’ Donuts French Vanilla, with Folgers French Vanilla close behind.  But, as fast as we go through coffee in this house, it was very costly to buy only the…

Things I Love… This is my feature where I get to share something that I just love. Since you are my friends, I like sharing things I love with others. It could be anything from a new product, food, recipe, song, image, to a person and everything in between. This will be something I am…

Last week, while shopping at JC Penney, I walked by this purse and it just jumped out at me and I stopped to look it over.  I LOVED it.  I snapped a photo of it and thought, What the heck?  I sent it off to my husband with the message….Love this purse….it’s at JCP. I…

UPDATE:  We are having such a winter warm-up, that we are having fog….such thick, dense fog that school was first 2 hours late and now CANCELLED, due to fog and slippery roads.  So, day 2 of No School for the winter is upon us.  Is it too early for wine??????? This week, here in Iowa,…