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No, this is not an insult. It's a television show. And not just any TV show... It's the TV show that makes me cry every single week. Lisa Kudrow produces this amazing show which profiles a different celebrity each week and takes them on a journey to find their ancestry. They start with a ...

Stuff I've gotta do before THIS Sunday... - Go through Church list and copy and paste every single female's email address. - Email R.S. Birthday Party Invites. - Collect stories from church women, compile and print in booklet form. - Paint a small wooden stage. - Clean basement toy room (oy.) ...

These are the things that fill up our lives. And there is a website which celebrates that. With an amazing team of fifteen women (which includes Ali Edwards, Elsie Falnnigan and Emily Powers) you are sure to find inspiration every day. I was recently asked to join this stellar team and my ...

As promised, here is the recipe that Amber made for our National Pi Day celebration . It turns out this was a winner of a national contest hosted by Nestle and BH&G. And it's no wonder it won...seriously, people...it's like pure sin in a pre-baked shell. *Recipe and photo from VERY BEST ...

The sweetest, cuddliest, most low-maintenance little girl. Happy Happy Birthday little Fifi!

All in all we had 20 people (8 adults and 12 kids) over tonight. Eating pie, playing hide n' seek, hooting and hollering at football games, talking about good local Doctors and much much more. And, as is the case with most parties, it's not really about the pie. It's so much more about the ...

Evangeline's instances of visiting the little princess potty have increased. Up to this point we have kept her in diapers and made the potty available in our most highly trafficked area. Occasionally, she would decide to use it. Then last night we had a great talk before she went to bed. A ...

I went through our photos yesterday and grabbed pictures from MArch 10th from the past 5 years. With the exception of the photo from 2006 which was lost in the Great Computer Meltdown of that same year. March 10, 2005 Little Ella is a little over a week old and is in the NICU being fed by ...

Did you think I could stop at just one post? It's my SuperBowl , baby! The Hosts ......ZZZZZZZzzzZZZZZzzzzzzz........ One line, old-man zingers do not a good Oscars show make. Why can't Jon Stewart come back? The Orchestra Music Worst ever. Really odd song choices played in elevator style ...

This year's Oscar Red Carpet was an interesting one. Filled with a lot of bad looks and a lot of great looks...not much in between. Let's get rolling... DUD Girl, NO! What is that growth on your dress? She is naturally gorgeous, but Zoe hit my worst dressed with this purple nightmare.  ...

Ahhh...my truest love. I have recently been brain-washing Emily Foley into watching back seasons of Project Runway. She just finished watching Season 2 (the best season). And I was more than happy to give her my recommendations for other back-seasons to watch. So here's my break-down. Okay, ...

there's a lot I could blog about today... about the slightly disappointing hour long episode of The Office or my thoughts on Jerry Seinfeld's new show The Marriage Ref or how the girls got the most frilly femmy princess nightgowns in the mail on wednesday and refused to take them off all day ...

listening to... craving... missing... crafting with... obsessively waiting for... reading... wishing we could have... What are you up to recently?

Question: Why do I attract all of the crazies?! No, seriously people. Why? I have come up with a new term for these crazy women who spend their lonely days trolling blogs to think of something negative to spew... "The League of Unhappy Women" Catchy, eh? I have been dealing with yet, ...

When I get bigger I can totally be a super hero because I'm SUPER STRONG and I have SUPER SPEED! But.... I can't lift our couch.

I have a question of my own for this week's Tuesday Tell All . And it's one I was just thinking about at random earlier today and I thought it would really fun to know what other's answers are to this one, so COMMENT your heart out! I have been thinking lately of gifts. About what I feel I am ...

I have never participated in a "Pool". Probably because they are mostly about things I know nothing about. Namely...sports. But the Oscars is something I can get behind. Something I actually know something about. So, I thought it would be fun to have an Oscar Pool for Charity. Here's how to ...

A bunch of you emailed me and asked me to post the lasagna recipe we used for Ella's birthday dinner. Here it is! After many a failed/bland/watery lasagna recipes I finally perfected this one which has everything we want in a lasagna. We like the cheesiness of ricotta, but dislike the pasty ...

I dropped by my Old Navy today and scored AMAZING deals! All of their clearance is an additional 50% off AND we printed a 15% off coupon from online and stacked that on top. Here is the loot we got. 2 toddler raincoats 8 short sleeved toddler shirts 5 long sleeved toddler shirts 1 long ...