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Thirty Days of Gratitude – #15 – My Daughter
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Thirty Days of Gratitude – #15 – My Daughter

May 3, 2019 Crankygiraffe2 Comments

Today L' il E turns THREE! I know everyone says the same thing, but where does this time go!?! This little girl is the link that completes our family. She is both the girliest girl and one of the boys all at the same time. Just the other day she woke up and demanded to… Continue reading Thirty Days of Gratitude – #15 – My Daughter

Big E Wanted A Cake
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Big E Wanted A Cake

March 23, 2019 Crankygiraffe3 Comments

This week, Big E turned 7. I always wonder where the time has gone each and every time my children have a birthday. Before I know it, they'll be teenagers, and then I'll really wonder where the time went! Yikes! I always bake and decorate my own cakes for my kids. This year I was… Continue reading Big E Wanted A Cake

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We Need A Cake!

July 20, 2015 Crankygiraffe4 Comments

"Mommy!" a exclaimed in a worried tone, "we need to bake a cake for your birthday!" I was making puffed wheat squares to serve at our back yard BBQ when he said this. "it's okay, honey.  Mommy's just making these because they are fast and easy. " "No, Mommy, you can't bake a cake for… Continue reading We Need A Cake!

Five Years!
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Five Years!

June 1, 2015 Crankygiraffe7 Comments

In this household, anyone turning 5 is rewarded with an amateur fondant-formed Baymax figurine.  I also throw in the 9inch chocolate fudge cake covered in red, rolled, store-bought fondant (because as delicious as marshmallow fondant is, it is the worst thing in the world to make and dying it red would have made it even more… Continue reading Five Years!

Turning “Free”
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Turning “Free”

March 21, 2015 Crankygiraffe10 Comments

Someone was very exited to turn "free" today!  Little E. Could hardly contain his excitement when his Gro clock woke up this morning and he came barging into our bedroom all ready for the Dinosaur Party!How did my baby get to be three years old?

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Blogger Friends Got Ideas!

Yesterday, after my Alter Ego, Cranky Giraffe, posted about my son’s crazy little love letter to his newest idol, Lady Gaga, an old old blogging friend tweeted it, with an idea that maybe he could meet her!  I know the likelihood of it being re-tweeted by anyone other than myself is pretty low… But who […]

It’s Been a Long Time…

“It’s been a long time since I came around Been a long time but I’m back in town And this time I’m not leaving without you” ~Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) I know I haven’t been here blogging for quite a long time (almost a year and a half…), but there was something about blogging that […]

The Common Sense Problem

The airplane seat map shows that the emergency exit row seats are considered “less desirable.” It’s a little ironic since they come with extra leg room, even if they don’t recline (really, who needs to recline 2 inches when you have two extra feet of leg room?). I think the real reason they are less […]

Walking Tall

This month I’m traveling around the country to check out fellowship positions. It is exhausting, trying, lonely, and often confusing. Most of all, I miss my kids. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how fellowship and moving to one of these places would fit into the current, ideal, little life of […]

Happiness, Please

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth.  We are happy when we are growing. ~John Butler Yeats, 1909 Is there a difference between pleasure and happiness? I had never really thought much about it until today.  My husband sent me an interview by Dr. Robert Lustig, who just […]

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