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31 Day Blog Prompt Challenge Day 23
Day 23: How you came up with the name of your blog. I originally started my blog while living in Virginia to keep our family here in Knoxville (and elsewhere) up to date on what was going on in our lives. I also started it at Rich’s behest to hone…
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31 Day Blog Prompt Challenge Day 22
Day 22: Your favorite holiday. Most people would say Christmas, or maybe their birthday. I’m going to go with Thanksgiving, because that’s when I get a chance to shine (food-wise, anyway) in that I eat my own weight in turkey. I’m almost always the last person left at the table…
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Photoblogging: A Kiss for Miranda
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31 Day Blog Prompt Challenge Day 21
Day 21: Something you love about yourself. My warped sense of humor. It comes through better in person than it does in my writing, believe me. A lot of telling believable stories has to do with delivery. Which is why I have friends who believe Rich and I met in…
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31 Day Blog Prompt Challenge Day 20
Day 20: Your biggest insecurity. Being a good mom and parent. Coraline is my first (and likely only) child. I freely admit: I was virtually clueless going in. The most consistent contact I had with babies up until then was hanging out with or babysitting my nephews. Now, if I’d…
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31 Day Blog Prompt Challenge Day 19
Day 19: A skill you’d like to learn. As much as I want to learn how to stunt drive, I’m going to say archery (that sound you just heard was Rich breathing a sigh of relief. Also, my lead foot just detached from my leg, looked back with disgust, and…
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31 Day Blog Prompt Challenge Day 18
Day 18: Something you are afraid of. I’m not going to say what my biggest/worst fears are, because I’m an incredibly superstitious dork who fears that articulating those things out loud (or writing them out loud here on my blog) will make them come true. Ridiculous, I know, but that’s…
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Cabbage Patch Kids and Black Market Doll Adoptions
Song Lyric of the Day: Cabbage Patch Kids / Growing in the garden / Cabbage Patch Kids / Growing in the sun Cabbage Patch Kids commercial, circa mid-1980s When I was a wee youngling, my mom bought me a Cabbage Patch doll. Mom went through hell to get her, practically…
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31 Day Blog Prompt Challenge Day 17
Day 17: Are you named after anyone? No, and I am named Patricia only through my dad’s intervention. Mom apparently wanted to name me Yesenia when Dad (thankfully) stepped in and said no (no offense to any Yesenias out there). He also had a hand in naming my sisters, which…