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Confession, I am a Hoarder

November 11, 2012

I spent all day yesterday on a ladder and with a bucket cleaning our front porch. Not until I was done did I feel genuinely bad my neighbors had to look at our mildewed white porch all fall. I do this a couple of times a year but it has been a really rainy year [...]

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It’s Just That Kind of Town on Halloween and Every Day

October 26, 2012

“Please Use Honor System.  Put in Yellow Mailbox.” That’s right, honor system.  Just leave what you owe. It’s that kind of town. We live in a little town where when you stop by a pumpkin patch you see lovely pumpkins and gourds.  It’s nice to see people having faith in humanity. Suckers!!!  Good Lord I [...]

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The Goonies

October 5, 2012

I need y’alls help. I’m catching crap because it was my idea to have a movie night in our neighborhood and play a movie on an outdoor projector screen. I said we needed to offer a “big kid” movie as we usually do PG movies. I need a consensus. Do you think “The Goonies” rocks? [...]

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Blogger Idol

September 17, 2012

I can’t believe I am doing this. I am still trying to find my “like” button on my new self hosted site and I somehow think I am now qualified to audition for… Blogger Idol I am afraid my “like” button is gone forever but if you have ever “liked” my stories before please head [...]

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Halloween at our House, You Have Been Warned

September 14, 2012

Dear North Carolina Friends and Family, I am sorry, in advance, for our Halloween display.  You may want to keep your small children from coming over to play at Miss Abbie’s house until after the holiday.  If you decide to still send them*, you may want to talk to them first about Miss Abbie and [...]

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Birth of a Blog

September 2, 2012

By talking to myself I am ensuring my external hard drive keeps the memories that my mind sometimes cannot remember. When I looked back at my photographs I knew I needed to tell the story. My blog was born.

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She Knows I Am Laughing With Her

August 31, 2012

Someone quickly drop off a girl! I have all boys and our girl dog is suffering through me dressing her up

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Summer Camp

August 20, 2012

I went to summer camp for the first time when I was their age.

That is what I kept chanting to myself every time I had the thought to throw them back into the car and drive them to Disney World so I wouldn’t have to leave them with strangers

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Epic Embarrassing Night, Again, Enjoy

August 17, 2012

Yet another awesome moment for me as I love to provide entertainment for my friends in real time and then share them with my friends online.

Last night we went to a dinner party at our club, but really they sat tables up around the pool and tennis courts. It was a beautiful night. Perfect weather, they had live music and ice sculptures and shrimp cocktail, prime rib and even nachos.

You know that based on what I have said I must be beginning another story that includes an awkward Abbie moment. You so wont be disappointed.

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The Difference Between Mothers and Sons

July 25, 2012

This is what I do with hydrangeas from the yard. Cute, right? Get it?  It is an ice cream cone.   Even cooler is that they are all from the same bush is our yard. The boys brought the stalk you see below, into the house yesterday and asked me if they can cut more [...]

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