On Friday I was doing laundry, as I often do during the day. I stepped on the pile of dirty laundry on the floor and found that the clothes were soaking wet. Great!–I thought. The washing machine has a leak. I cleared up the entire area around the washer and dryer, used a bunch of…

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This week’s Fix-It picture from I Heart Faces is a great photo to start out with, in my opinion. The biggest problem for me was that it had a lot of noise. So in addition to brightening and boosting, I tried to reduce the noise. Here’s the original: I kept things simple (for me) and…

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Today, I am writing about a friend of mine–a mother who just discovered that her 2 year old son has cancer. I could tell you all her story, but it means so much more coming from her mouth. Read my friend Beth’s story of her sweet little Ezra, who just turned 2 on May 23rd….

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I have had a few emails saying that some of my readers have not been able to get onto my blog. According to Known Issues For Blogger there’s been a problem with Internet Explorer loading some blog pages. It seems to have something to do with the followers gadget…..so I have removed it temporarily. Grr!…

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This week’s Fix-It picture is of a sweet Ponytail Princess. I thought that today would be a perfect time to try out a few of my new MCP actions in Photoshop (I have CS3). A few weeks ago, I won a gift certificate for some MCP actions and just decided on the Quickie Collection (part…

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It’s always at the end of my kids’ birthdays that I remember to have someone take a picture of me with the birthday child. But I rarely actually like the pictures. On Monday, I had CandyMan snap a few shots of me with AJ–my big 4 year old. Too bad he was licking the frosting…

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I wasn’t sure which of MamaKat’s writing prompts I was going to chose today. Here are the choices:1.) Share a love letter. (not feeling particularly lovey today–I have had a headache for the last several days. It won’t go away!) 2.) Memorial Day Weekend plans?? Do share! (birthday party on Friday, two photo shoots on…

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MamaKat has a new list of writing prompts out for this week’s writer’s workshop, and for some reason this prompt stood out to me: 3.) Describe a ‘sound’ from your childhood. What was it? When did you hear it? What does it bring to mind? Maybe this one stood out to me because I have…

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When CandyMan took Twizzler on his first Father-Son campout, when Twiz was about a year old, I thought it was ridiculous that the yearly church campout was planned for the Friday and Saturday before Mother’s Day…..but 7 years later, I find that Mother’s Day weekend (all of it!) is something I really look forward to….

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I got to the airport at 5:45 tonight. My flight took off at 5:50. Without me. My ride was late. The traffic was horrific. The 5:50 flight was the last flight of the night. I was supposed to be on this trip to relax and de-stress. Instead, I am back home, a wreck. My body…

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