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I could transformer that car

If you ever meet my husband & we get on the topic of Transformers he’s going to tell you this “I took Alex to see the first Transformers & she has a thing for Optimus Prime.” he loves to tell this story. And yes I’ll admit it. Optimus Crime can get it.  I love his [...]

Dead Romance

I know it has been a really long time since I’ve finished up my Bible School engagement story. I’m not great with the follow through. Remember 30 Days of Truth?  I’m going to take a detour in the story of that failed romance go off the chronological path & tell you about the first flowers [...]

Where’s the deal?

I pretty much consider myself a professional shopper or a professional spender of money. No seriously I do. I have always said that shopping is a job, its not just something I do. But as much as I love spending money I also try to be as smart with money as I can so that [...]

Jesus & Santa walk into a bar.

 My parents didn’t tell us about Santa Clause growing up. There was a lot of Satan Clause type comments going on around or house & in the varies churches we attended while growing up. One church in particular even tried to completely boycott Christmas (and anything Disney, but that’s another story). As a child I [...]

Happy Birthday Love, Victory

When I was a teenager I spent most of my days involved in a church activity of sorts. Youth group, bible study meetings, worship practice, work parties etc. With the exception of the Thanksgiving Dinner hosted by our church for the neighborhood, my youth group did not do much charity work. I remember when I [...]

the tale of 3 cars

Christmas of 2000 my parents bought us a Dreamcast with Ready 2 Rumble boxing, a Sonic Hedgehog game, & my favorite of all time Crazy Taxi. For those of you not still playing video games in the early 2000′s Crazy Taxi was a video game that sent you around the city picking up different passengers. [...]

Single parents online dating RULES

Single parents have got it pretty tough when it comes to free time, which makes getting out there and going on dates really damn difficult. you’ve thought “No way!!” to the idea of trying out any of those single parent dating sites out there, then you might actually want to have another think. It’s a [...]

Buying flowers for a newborn baby

Everybody knows that flowers are very versatile gifts and can be given to mark many different occasions. The range of flowers available in florists these days is such that we are never short of ideas for the occasions that arise in our lives. People traditionally buy flowers as everything from birthday gifts to funeral gestures [...]

sendCheer Military Campaign take 2

If you got a chance to read the post that my MOM wrote you’ll know that I grew up in a Military family. For 10 years my Dad was in the Navy and for 10 years he was out a lot on deployments. At home would be my mom trying to hold down the fort [...]

Let’s celebrate Halloween before we put the turkey in the oven

Please don’t remind me that Thanksgiving is next Thursday & I am now just sharing with you our Halloween update. Since at least September Phoenix has been talking about how excited he was to go trick or treating. We started looking on Etsy & his costume ideas changed every time I changed the page. A ghost, [...]