Nanny Adventures

Over a year ago, my brother told me that the state of North Carolina had me on the Unclaimed Money list.   I printed out that info in June of 2007.  I recently found it after the start of the new year.   They wanted me to confirm my address from 1993.   Hello that was like oh [...]

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Kidlet #3 got a parakeet for Christmas named Sparky.  He has done a good job finger training her etc.  Anyways, her wings have grown out now.  The other week she escaped from the cage and took a little flight around the house for a bit.
The kidlet wanted to let her out of the cage yesterday [...]

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I have been off work since Thursday evening.  It has been great, exhausting, profitable and exhausting!   I loaded my car up twice with items for my yard sale that I was having at my friend’s house in Pennsylvania.  

But more on that later, today my oldest, Kidlet #1 is home because school is out.  He came [...]

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Many of you know that I have been with a few direct sales businesses.  I have loved them each for what they brought to my life.  The one that was the biggest was, Big Yellow Box by Crayola.  It folded August 31, 2007.  BYB has left me with so many yellow boxes, crayons, markers, color [...]

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A few weeks ago, my nanny group had a lady come talk to us about nutrition for ourselves and our charges. One of things she suggested was using Barilla’s Plus Pasta . I had bought a box of the thin spaghetti with some regular thin spaghetti.  I had some of the Barilla Plus pasta when I [...]

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Kidlet #3 and I watched the movie  The Final Season this afternoon. It was a great baseball movie. It recalls the story of the Legendary Norway High School’s final season as a team and school in 1991.   Norway, Iowa is all about baseball.  The team had won 19 state championships and then in 1991 it was [...]

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Wow I am excited about this new program that the Giant Foods by us has installed.  It is called easyShop and it is only for BonusCard holders.  
 When you come in you scan your bonus card.
Pick up the scanner that is lit up on the scanner board.
Pick up some bags if you didn’t bring your blue [...]

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So there is a little running joke between me and the oldest, Kidlet #1.  When he started driving with me last fall for driver’s education, he would park very close to the stone wall in the driveway.  I would say “Hey , I am not Kate Moss!”  He looked puzzled and then I explained that [...]

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was the last statement my Kidlet #1 said as he stomped up the stairs just a few minutes ago. I was laughing silently.  He had come downstairs to see what I was doing on Friday. I said going to my Grandma’s. *see side note below on my Grandma*  What about during the day. I said um doing [...]

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