Author: Sandy L
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Unsolicited Advice – Practice it before you preach it
Tweet It’s definitely that time of year where lots of people are turning over new leaves and trying to make some positive changes in their lives. This also seems to be the time of year when unsolicited advice spreads like pink eye in a daycare. If you’re one of those people who always wants to…
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Gift Giving Guide for People without Children
Tweet This post ideally should have been written before the holidays but by next Christmas it’ll be long gone out of my head, so I thought I’d just jot down a few thoughts today. I’m a relatively new parent. My oldest is 5, so I’m sure I broke some if not all of these rules…
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Babci is Going to Poland
Tweet December is always an expensive month. I rarely open my wallet for anything other than food, absolute necessities and vacations for most of the year. Then December rolls around. It’s the holidays and despite my hatred of shopping, I must shop regardless, so I spend my time and buy the things I’ve been putting…
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Babci’s Home Remedies
Tweet Check out my guest post today at Molly on Money. Molly is one of my favorite people whom I’ve never met. I love her stories of ditching the rat race to raise chickens and bees and making yurts out of junk mail. My story is about how Babci would embarrass me as a kid…
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Coffee Talk – Gaining Time + Income
Tweet Today’s post is part of a blogging experiment asking people to figure out their plans to either increase time or increase income for 2011 and use 5 actions starting with the letter S to describe their plan of attack. Although I plan on doing a little bit of both (with another attic full of…
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Reminder – Coffee Talk Tomorrow
Tweet Just a reminder to people who are thinking about participating in the next coffee talk, the post is going up tomorrow. Topic is Resolutions with 5 S’s. I know many have already wrote about some of their resolutions, but this post will focus on only one of the the following two topics: increasing time…
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New Years Goals for Anyone
Tweet The last week of the year is almost always a week of reflection due to the time I take off from work. I tend to get introspective and think about how I want the upcoming year to be different from the previous one. Despite my need to lose those last few pounds of baby…
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Your Life Doesn’t Have to Be Chaotic
Tweet I’ll admit it. I’m one of those nutty people who’s always over scheduled and tend to fill every waking moment with some activity or task. It seems like my MO is to teeter totter between being bored and being completely frazzled. What I do is this. I add things to my life one thing…
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Happiness is Independence
Tweet The other day, I was blogging about Babci’s Mottos to Live By and the last one just really stuck in my head. “Don’t Complain about not having something done if you can do it yourself.” If I think about the people in my life and the ones that are the happiest and the ones…
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The present that was a teaching opportunity
Tweet Christmas was wonderful this year and it seems that for the first time since the kids were born, I don’t feel like they were overwhelmed with presents. They seem to have gotten just the right amount. Both my boys got shortie wetsuits for the pool because they love the water but the Y gets…