July 2012
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I've Moved!
I started this blog on Tumblr to kinda get a feel for it in a familiar place. I used to have a personal blog on Tumblr a few years ago. I didn’t use it for much, just some recipes and things. But I really felt that God was directing me to do a better, more regular blog, so I started here with the idea that I’d move to more permanent digs once I got the feel for blogging.
Today’s...
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Front Row Baby!
My best friend posted that on my Facebook page. It is a truth we’ve lived by for the last 11 years. Most my friends feel the same. If we can’t sit in the first row, we’ll begrudgingly take second or third row. It’s not that we’re snobs, and we’re certainly not groupies, but we are spoiled to it.
We like the front row for lots of reasons. Mostly because we like to be where the action is! My...
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Consuming Fires and Their Place in Our Lives
(Breaking Good? Part 2)
Anyway, what I really wanted to say when I got lost in telling you about bonding with our kids over Breaking Bad was how things stick with us and sometimes consume us.
It has become our habit to watch Breaking Bad on Sunday afternoons. We usually watch three to five episodes, two and a half to four hours at a time.
The first time we did this was a couple of Sundays ago....
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Breaking Good?
Every summer A comes home from college and says, “You have to watch this show!” It’s usually some show we have heard of or seen previews for, but doesn’t appeal to us for one reason or another. But A can be very insistent, so the hubs and I usually relent and watch a few episodes with him.
I believe in giving most things a chance. I want our kids to know we value their opinion, and although we...
June 2012
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Captioning Your Memories (or “You Did What to That...
A couple of years ago, I cleaned out the boxes in our “attic”. I got rid of the stuff we thought we might use again when we put it in the box, but was now obvious we never would. When I cleaned out the memory boxes*, I got rid of all the things I couldn’t remember why we’d saved or what they were. There were little bits of paper, champagne corks, broken toys, pressed flowers, and other things that...
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It's Kor-REEN not Kor-RIN
Yesterday, Dan Haseltine, lead singer of Jars of Clay, tweeted, “Officially Pronounced: Hass-el—tyn e (silent e) or Hassell tine. or Hasselhoff without the hoff but with the tine. not teen.”
I know how he feels. All my life people have been mispronouncing my name. Even as I sat in the doctor’s office waiting room yesterday reading that tweet, the doctor walked by and said, “Hey Corrine!...
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“If you tell a woman you like her new (shoes, outfit, purse, pillowcases,...”
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One of Those Days (or Little Victories)
It’s Monday. Not only is it Monday, it’s one of those Mondays. And they don’t necessarily have to happen on Mondays. It can just be one of those days. I’m pretty sure you know what I’m talking about, those days when you don’t know where to start, or can’t get started at all.
I know I want to blog, but if I sit down, I may not get up again. I have a whole day ahead of me, so it would be a great...
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How to Clean Your Bathroom
“Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.” - Lord Chesterfield
Earlier, I said I was going to talk about how to clean a bathroom. Today’s the day! I can feel your excitement right through my keyboard as I type. (If this were on Twitter, I’d be hashtagging it #mundane.)
So yeah, it’s not the most exciting thing to talk about. In fact, cleaning the bathroom is my least...
May 2012
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“That’s what.”
– She (A little Office humor)
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I used to have another blog called Gomertopia. For...
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Better Chocolate Chip Cookies
If there’s one thing I can make really really well every time, and there’s really only one thing, it’s chocolate chip cookies.
I get a lot of compliments on my cookies. People seem to think they are something special. I started making them when I was a teenager, and taking them to rock bands that I liked. I still do that from time to time. Mostly I make them for my kids…and myself. To tell the...
Everything to Everybody (or We're All Superwomen,...
When I started this blog, the idea was to post three to five times a week. Hubby thought that was a tad ambitious, but I said I wanted it to be alive and consistent. Well, consistency has never been one of my strong suits, and here it’s been a week with no posts at all.
Remember my mom? Being about as coordinated as I am, she tripped over her ottoman and broke her wrist. So for the past couple of...
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
– John Lennon
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Dirty Soda Cans Hazardous to Your Health?
I was all set to blog about the dangers of drinking from soda cans before you wash them off. It has to be hazardous to your health to drink from a can after rats have peed on it and cockroaches have scurried across it in the warehouse, right?
Turns out, there aren’t really that many dangers. I mean, it’s unlikely that you will die or even get sick if you drink out of a soda can that you didn’t...
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Quick Tip: Quicker Breakfasts
There’s nothing I love for breakfast better than soft tacos with eggs, potatoes, cheese, and salsa. They are one of my comfort foods. But they are not quick to make because the potatoes take a while to prepare. So, when I have time to make a nice breakfast, I make extra potatoes. That way, I’ve got some to use for the rest of the week. This allows me some variety in the mornings. I can...
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It’s a Kind of Magic
From time to time on this blog, I’m going to talk about products I’ve used and really like or disliked.
In my lifetime, no product has blown my mind like the Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. I’ve never seen anything work like these little babies do! I’m convinced they either have some kind of acid in them that is taking off a layer of the surface of whatever they are cleaning, or they really are magic!...
“I believe that a godly home is a foretaste of heaven. Our homes, imperfect as...”
– Jani Ortlund
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Reason #2 or "That's What Mom's Are For"
My younger son (I have two.) lives in a condo near the University of Texas campus. For the past two years, he lived in a dorm on campus where they clean everything but your room for you, so I when he moved to the condo I wondered how he’d do at keeping his bathroom clean. The answer is…he just tries not to get it dirty. As a result, the bathroom is neat and uncluttered, but with a nice buildup of...
“The career of motherhood and homemaking is beyond value and needs no...”
– Katherine Short
April 2012
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The Kitchen Sponge or "What Stinks?!"
I hate to throw things out if I can make them usable again. Take the lowly kitchen sponge. Not much in your home gets as stinky or germy, as that sponge except for maybe the trashcan and the garbage disposal. Not even the toilet has as many bacteria.
A kitchen sponge is moist and full of little crevices where bacteria can make their homes. With just a couple days use, a sponge can harbor millions...
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Welcome to More Than Happier
When I was a little girl, my mom was the model housewife. Our home was spotless. The laundry was always fresh and hanging in our rooms. Dinner was on the table at 4:20 every evening when my dad walked in the door. Our closets and other storage spaces were always organized. She did crafts, made some of our clothes, kept a garden and canned the vegetables. She did her grocery shopping and errands,...
