Jekyll Island: Butterflies in Winter

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I’ve traveled to some amazingly beautiful places in Georgia, but Jekyll Island is the closest thing to paradise I’ve found. I discovered the island last year when scheduling a much-needed family vacation, and I recently had the opportunity to escape the winter for a few days during Christmastime. Even though the temperature difference is only [...]

Real Books Are Awesome, But Fake Ones Are Okay Too

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My husband got me a Kindle Fire for Christmas. Better than that, he traded a spare Xbox 360 for it on Craigslist, so it was practically free! But that’s not the point of this story. I have always loved books and reading them. I taught myself to read by the time I was three, and [...]

So this is Christmas…what have you done?

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We have all of the “Very Special Christmas” CD’s and there is a classic song on the first one that makes me think about how another year has flown by. It also makes me think about all the time I spent worrying about a bunch of “stuff” that in the big picture of life is [...]

The Marshmallow Chronicles

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I have mentioned before that I have 2,  7 year old girls. I affectionately call them “The Divas,” although I must say they are far less whiny than the real divas we see on TV. The one I call Mariah would like to be a scientist when she “grows up” so for Christmas, I bought [...]

Lauren’s Top 10 Movies

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I generally do not love watching movies. There. I said it. I feel like they require a huge commitment of time that I just don’t want to give. I have things to do! Places to go! Tweets and statuses to send! Although I will watch shows that are an hour long (Grey’s Anatomy, Real Housewives [...]

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