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In case you're wondering, or still wanted to send books, there is still time.  Yesterday I started sorting through some of the books I have here and got in touch with the child life specialist at Metro to set up a date to bring them out.  We are tentatively planning on the 15th of this month.
   
After I sorted them, I stamped them or put a label on them, depending on the type of book, that...

Every Thursday is Happiness Day on Zen Habits.
I wish I had a dime for every time I heard someone making a negative comment about me, about others, about themselves. That last is really the worst. I could retire on those dimes.
The thing is, life could be so much better for many people, if they would just spot their negative thinking habits and replace them with positive ones.
Negative thinking,...

and snowing and snowing here!
It looks beautiful on the trees and out in the yard!
 
and the dog loves to play in it

although I think even he is getting tired of it and its only January!

  
SIMPLIFY AND ENJOY LIFE

Today marks 7 years since I quit smoking!  Still hard to believe when even I never saw myself quitting, but today I can't imagine ever going back to smoking!
 
Sunday was Zach's last day of winter break so the kids and I decided to head out to lunch and a movie.  There are so many movies out right now that I want to see and yet I wanted to pick something that both kids would enjoy.  We ended...

Here we go with a new year and getting back to scrapping.  I had a blast creating my layouts with my January Work in Progress kit.
 
This picture is old and kinda fuzzy, but I love it just the same.  It has my Grandmother, father and brother who are no longer with us, my aunt and my cousin who are in California and me in overalls... okay maybe not the overalls.  but everything else I totally...

New Year's Eve 2010 was a wonderful night!  I spent the evening with family and friends eating, drinking and laughing.... lots of laughing!

 We started the evening with dinner at Corkscrew Saloon.  We had 5:30 reservations and it was so nice to just walk in and get a table.  We went around the table with everyone sharing their favorite thing that they did/happened in 2009 and their resolutions...

Wow, its 2010... sometimes hard to believe when you look back to how much has changed...  

 
This year the changes for me are going to include simplifying my life and after considering all of my options SIMPLIFY was the word that kept speaking to me.
It means getting rid of many of the things you do so you can spend time with people you love and do the things you love. It means getting rid...