WARNING:: Spoiler Alert!! Stop reading if Santa visits your home & your kids are nearby. I don't want to ruin anyone's Christmas traditions, I'm just curious how different families deal with Santa. [caption id="attachment_565" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Does Santa visit your home?"][/caption] My husband made it clear he was not interested in doing "Santa ...

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Shopping for Christmas gifts this year, I have seen a lot of toys that remind me of toys I grew up with. The first toy that brought memories flooding back was the Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine at Toys"R"Us. I was with my husband & he said he had one just like ...

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All my life, I had wanted to be a model or an actress. However, at being only 5'4", modeling didn't look to favor me - so I thought being an actress would be how I would make it. When I attended the University of Missouri, I was a model for the ...

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I like to talk & I like to share experiences. I like to write. At least I think I do. I had tons of fun writing stories when I was younger. I had dreams of being a writer. My senior year of high school, I lost the zest for writing. ...

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My husband & I were thinking that this year we should start putting Christmas lights up on the house. Miss Boo is getting old enough that she is SUPER excited for Christmas & LOVES Christmas lights. My husband decided that what he really wanted was a Nativity set for the ...

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Sadly, I missed the $5 Real Simple magazine subscription deal by two days. However, Amazon has some other great magazine deals that are going on now through December 31st. One of my favorite magazines, Disney Family Fun, is on sale for $9.95 & there's an extra $5 instantly taken off ...

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I am actually getting ready to bake cookies for our last life group meeting tomorrow (and as a break from work), but I wanted to post these sites (that I mentioned a while back) that are great for helping you save money! In no particular order, here are the three blogs ...

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