Hello my readers! I am sorry I have been MIA this summer. Having three teens at home is a handful, well actually two handfuls :) Balancing their schedules, my schedule and our vacations.
Everyone disperses to school on Sept 1/Sept 4, so life will be getting into a new rhythm then hopefully after Labor Day!
I have [...]
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Summer Vacation is almost at the end
August 26th, 2009 · No Comments
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Great news on the CVS medication mixup
May 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
Michelle just sent out a notice to friends stating: stop calling and writing CVS! They are taking action! THANK YOU! OUR VOICES WERE HEARD! I received a call from Papatya Tankut, VP of Pharmacy Professional Services. They ARE going to develop educational materials, add something to their website and to their circular about the importance [...]
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INA raises money for Jonathans’s Place via Raffle
May 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment
I was so excited to be in charge of selling raffle tickets again for the INA’s annual conference. I have so much fun going around to the nannies and agency owners & workers seeking their donations to help a local charity at the site of the conference. This year’s charity was Jonathan’s Place, an emergency [...]
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What no work on Monday?
May 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Today Kidlet #3 didn’t have school due to a professional day–not swine flu that is shutting schools around us. We both woke up around 10am. I find out he is watching tv, great I will check email and get some other things squared away before we do some stuff.
I go upstairs and he pitches a [...]
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What a Thursday morning!
May 1st, 2009 · No Comments
I got back from Dallas at 2am on Sunday night from my nanny conference there. I of course got the sinus icky illness…….which one could have confused with the Swine Flu because Texas did have 2 of the cases in the beginning of the week. My friend Kellie and I arrived at the airport to [...]
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Daylight Saving Time…
March 6th, 2009 · No Comments
This is the big weekend…we lose an hour but gain more sunlight during the day. This website was passed along from a nanny friend regarding Daylight Saving Time
From the Spelling and Grammar part:
Spelling and grammar
The official spelling is Daylight Saving Time, not Daylight SavingS Time.
Saving is used here as a verbal adjective (a participle). [...]
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Monday is off to a great start
January 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Today I woke up at 10am by a friend calling me. We talked for nearly an hour. It was a great talk since we haven’t really talked in awhile. I went to my computer and started working on my Friday Focus item : Start an excel file for my Stampin Up stamp sets I own-way [...]
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Post 95…What a friend.
November 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
My good friend Amy sent me a link to a news article today regarding something I could do with all my crayola crayons I have left from my Big Yellow Box days. You ask “How many does she have left?” I have 200 boxes of 24 crayons and 48 boxes of 64 crayons which gives [...]
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I am back from Seattle!
October 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I left last Thursday am to visit my brother and his wife and their “two kids” in Kenmore Washington outside Seattle. We arrived to a bit of sprinkling and 50 degrees around 6pm. On Friday it was crystal clear and high of 50. This remained throughout our stay till we woke up on Monday and [...]
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National Punctuation Day-Wednesday Sept 24
September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
I was made aware of this Holiday by a kindergarten teacher in New England! So everyone get ready to punctuate correctly today!
“A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotes, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis.” Find out more at National Punctuation Day
“Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation,
who never [...]
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