It's the end of the week.  Did you do something special with your family this week to spend family time?  I'd love to know.  

Here's what we did: http://melissahensler.blogspot.com/2011/07/family-friday_29.html

Come visit, link up, and see what everyone else is doing with their families this week.  

Happy weekend! 

One thing I have never adjusted to is having the TV running all the time.

Actually, as a kid we never had a television.  As I remember it, the first TV we had in our home growing up was given to us when I was 16 years old.  It was always comical watching our friends come to visit for the first time.…

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"This [being] so,…

Mama's big helper

Thank you for sharing...…

Would you like a summer time lunch and not feel guilty about going back for 2nds, 3rds, or even 4ths?

Does there exist such a lunch??

Yep!  And it's filling, too.  …

I am a highly social person.  I love people, I love talking, I can be long winded (all my friends say, "Nah!  Not YOU!").

Hello, my name is Miss Sanguine.

Now to be sure, I am one of those unique people with a split personality.  I am also Miss Melancholy and can be as much introverted as extroverted.  But, I think my…

So, my monthly pregnancy updates sort of got left in the dust after having come back from the States.

I don't look much bigger than this (umm...and before all the "You're huge" and "baby #2 will be big" comments start, this shirt makes me look bigger than…

I was reminded of this when reading a similar post over at A Pause On the Path, a new blog I am following.  Shanda wrote about how her mom, a missionary in Africa, made an embarrassing language error and that's when I started…

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I have had this on my heart to share for a few weeks now.

In the early…

I really debated about posting this.

I don't want to seem controversial and I don't want to use my blog for sensation.

Yet, somehow I know I must get some of my thoughts down on what happened Tuesday.  When I first heard the verdict, while watching Fox…

So, a couple of weeks ago I was really ambitious and did a bunch of baking all in one day.  

So here's what I did:

Two batches of Bagels

Two batches of English muffins

a batch of pop tarts.

Everything turned out GREAT.  Below are the links to the recipes I used for the…

I want to start by saying that I was not asked or paid to post this.  I have never posted a review before, and I am not sure this constitutes as a review so much as a an applause for some of the best customer service I have ever received.

Let me also say that having worked in customer service for many years, and having gone…

They say people spend about 30 hours a week online, playing games, on Facebook and Twitter, reading, researching...

That's nearly 4 1/2 hours a day.  And besides what people do for work.  Many spend their entire 8-hour workday on the computer.

In fact, for many social media has become a work distraction and many work…

Question: Do you receive recommendations to see a movie and most of the time you wonder what people saw in the movie that made them like it? Yes, I know I review and recommend movies all the time so maybe just ignore this question. I am still flustered over a movie I just finished viewing on Netflix: Flashbacks of a Fool.

Anyway, I wasn't going to review this movie because it hit me hard. I am still trying to figure out exactly why. A friend recommended this movie and their…

I hate playing pretend.  There, I said it. It sucks.



I never thought I would be a mom who doesn't want to play pretend.  I also never thought I would hear myself say things like "enough rapping for tonight dear" to one of my kids.  Or think farting is funny, or watch America's Funniest Home Videos (and think it is funny too) and the list goes on.



But the anti-pretend thing surprises me.  



My daughter Lucy is the queen of pretend play.  That is absolutely all she…