Nanny Adventures

On Friday, Blackstone’s opened up in Flint Michigan. Here is a link to the news report on the local station. You  will notice the Pastry Chef, Mandy, putting some touches on the desserts part way through the video.   Mandy is a friend of mine online.  She has a wonderful line up of desserts for this [...]

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I found out late last night like at 11pm when Kidlet #1 walked in the house, that he doesn’t have school today..sigh.  
I just got a phone call on my cell (he is up 2 flights of stairs) and it does like this”
me: “hello”
kidlet “You look beautiful today”
me: “You haven’t even seen me yet today”
kidlet: “Yes, [...]

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how do I love thee yet loathe you.   Apparently kidlet #3 got a Sony Cybershot camera from Santa. Well Santa didn’t do a great job with the gift because he forgot the memory stick.   Tomorrow is a big day for the kid, and he needs his camera.  He had a memory card for his cell [...]

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by checking out JerseyBites blog.  Deb has a three free dinner pastas for coupons for Pizza Hut’s new Tuscani Pastas!  So head over to the Win it Wednesday contest  and enter to win a no cooking night dinner :)  They are selecting the winners on Tuesday November 11, so hurry up and enter today!
I think the [...]

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So Kidlet # 2 and #3 are away with Mom till Tuesday night.   I didn’t really have to work today untill 5:15pm when Kidlet #1 called me to pick him up from the metro.  I pick him up and he is all smiles.  I know that he is getting ready to hit me up for [...]

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of not having Kidlet #1 at home will be strange.  He is going away for two weeks on a service project abroad.  When he gets home it is off to look at various colleges for a week, home for 3 days then off for a week at the beach with family.  
He is the fill in [...]

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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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Tonight, the 11 yr old kidlet asked if we could go to McDonald’s for dinner. Sure fine-it is raining and sleeting.  The older kidlet is gone. So it is just the two of us for dinner.
We get there and I use my AMEX to pay for dinner.  He gets a Mighty Kids Meal and was [...]

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