Mama J on December 4th, 2008

Last week (Thanksgiving) we talked about showing gratitude all year
long.  One of the ways I do this is to randomly drop someone a thank-
you note or card even when there wasn’t a gift given.
Then there are the occasions when gifts have been given.  You know
that feeling – you or your daughter or both are staring [...]

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Mama J on November 27th, 2008

It’s Thanksgiving Day in the good ol’ U.S. of A!  Messages
with cartoon turkeys and horns of plenty are crossing my computer
screen.  The stores display sections of brown, orange, and zucchini
green criss-crossing the reds and greens of Christmas (can’t we do one
holiday at a time?  But, I digress….)
The question that was asked of most school-aged children [...]

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Mama J on November 25th, 2008

It’s almost Thanksgiving Day again in the good ol’ U.S. of A.  Messages
with cartoon turkeys and horns of plenty are crossing my computer
screen.  The stores display sections of brown, orange, and zucchini
green criss-crossing the reds and greens of Christmas (can’t we do one
holiday at a time?  But, I digress….)
The question that will be asked of [...]

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