Today is the birthday of someone very, very special so a Happy Birthday to her (of course) and a Happy Birthday to everyone else that also has a birthday on this wonderful day!                                         and Happy

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Over the last 8+ years (since we've moved into our current home) we've been continuously acquiring things. I think it happens to most families (at least in this country) - you buy things, you

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Look - more books!!!  If you haven't been able to tell - books are important in our family.  The trip down memory lane continues for me.  Sorry - I realize that this is very

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More books!  Please note that these haven't been in any particular order - other than Cache Lake Country which is just too awesome and made such an impression on me that it had to

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I'm apparently having a 'nostalgia week' or something.  After posting the images of the restaurant matchbooks last week I was in our basement office (not an actively used room at the moment as it's

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One of the signs that I'm getting a little bit older - I'm starting to reminisce about things that are now gone... Nina used to collect matchbooks - her father gave her a few and

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Thanks to Matt Stellmacher for getting me out of bed this morning to run the first annual Apple Day 5K in Excelsior this morning. Beautiful morning and nice relaxed run.  I've been struggling with exercise

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Family trip to Chicago - I don't suspect that anyone out there is going to care to read about a family vacation to Chicago, but this is a personal exercise on blogging and trying to

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Before I get into this little story - I should note that I have no connection with fitbit as a company at all. That being said - I love the fitbit.  I had been using

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I've got less than a week until this year's Tough Mudder... Not so sure I was smart signing up again this year - I haven't had the time (make that 'made the time')

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