Felled By a Sitcom

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I'm down with the flu, and TV is playing a big part in my "distract the kids so I don't contaminate them" plan for today.  I know, I know.  TV isn't a great choice for a babysitter, but when the doc tells you you're highly contagious and ...
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SOTU Wrap Up

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Howdy, folks!  I struggled to decide this year upon the format for my State of the Union response - line by line responses, like last year, or topical thoughts, as I've done with prior political speeches?

I've decided that topical is better ...
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My Life and Meat Loaf

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I'm a huge fan of Meat Loaf.  Have been since childhood - and I'm surely not talking about the dinner entree.

Like many teenagers, I went through an angry phase.  Ok, maybe a decade.  It started around the time of my grandmother's ...
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Go to School!

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Big Girl loves to go to school.  We started her in preschool back in June, through a summer camp that a local Montessori sponsored.

Well, my little socialite LOVED it.  The first week, she cried when I left her there.  Afterall, she ...
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Caring and Sharing in Hotels

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Good Tuesday morning to everyone, and welcome to Tuesday Travel Tips with Tiffany! To read previous editions, you can find them here.

Today's topic is learning how to share hotel rooms.

No, no, no.  I'm not talking about physically sharing a ...
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Hair and Insight

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I had a "day off" on Saturday to go have some kid-less time.  I used part of the time to get my hair done.  I love making conversation, so I asked the hairdresser (a student who did a SUPERB job) why she had chosen to go to beauty school.

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New Year, Abandoned Resolutions

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Do you all like to make New Year's Resolutions?  I do.  There's nothing I like more than writing out a list of goals.

How do you all feel about keeping them?  Um, yeah.  I'm not so good either.

I came into 2011 gung ho with my ...
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Kids and Church

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Six point five days per week, Big Girl is a little devil - she understands the word "no," but believes that if she looks away and can't see me, I can't see her either.

And on Sundays, we go to church.  For a long time, Big Girl thought church ...
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The Part-Time Single Mom

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Ever since Big Girl was born 27 months ago, I have joked that I was a part-time single mom.

Afterall, with me working days and Funny Daddy working nights, we didn't always actually meet in the middle...especially when you throw in our "extra" ...
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New Year, New Blog Resolve

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Have you ever started a project and then after awhile, it just...fizzles?

Happens to me all the time.

I don't know, maybe having multiple kids, multiple lines of work, and more interests than brain cells causes that.

For some reason, it seems like ...
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