Listed below is an alphabetical index of all my personal stories and notes. The bulk of my posts end up here because they aren't specifically food or craft related.
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- How to take a shower when you have a toddler
- My 101st post - 101 Things About Me
- A phone call
- On being a working mom
- If You Take a Mom to Target
- One, Two, Three, Four
- In over my head
- A Letter to My Baby on Her Sixth Birthday
- God's Plans and My New Job
- On Two Weeks Without a Computer
- I Eat Downstairs
- Authentic Chinese Food
- My Word of the Year for 2015
- I Want to Wake Up to a World Where Robin Williams is Alive
- "I Killed My Stove"
- I Drive You to Walmart. Let's Go.
- A Light in the Dark
- The Hay Slide and Horse-Shaped Swing
- Everything's Not Fine
- Allie in a Homemade Witch's Hat
- I Bite the Cat
- You Are Vexing Me.
- Coping and Making Memories
- Stronger Than We Think We Are
- She is Gone
- It Never Goes Away, But It Does Get Better
- The Little, Slow Roller Coaster
- Allie and Grace and Zeus
- Preserving Lucky's Magic
- Be Prepared for A Big Day - Start With Milk
- My Health Experiment (Or How I Did Some Dumb Things)
- What I'm Thankful For
- Substance Over Style - Our New Old Christmas Tree
- Working Utopia
- Everyone is a Mess and Other Reflections from #Allume
- Nothing to Say
- On Grieving and Life
- What to Pack in an Operation Christmas Child Shoebox #OCCGiving
- She's So Beautiful
- There's No M in that Word
- A Moment of Middle-of-the-Night Insanity
- Goodbye Molly. I loved you, and I'm sorry.
- Reflections From Instagram
- Percolator is My New Favorite iPhone App
- Joe Paterno Was Just a Man and Men Make Mistakes
- The Rude Cashier
- Simplify Your Life - Stop Worrying
- Siri Hates Me (and the Feeling is Mutual)
- Our Family Rules - According to Grace
- An Unexpected Reaction at the Easter Bunny
- The Luckiest Day of My Life
- A Disaster in the Dining Room
- The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile (with my family inside)
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- A Warm Fall Day in Harrisburg
- 100 Things I Enjoy, 81-90
- What Do You Choose? - inspired by Steve Jobs
- 100 Things I Enjoy, 61-70
- How Did This Happen?
- The Happiest People
- 100 Things I Enjoy, 51-60
- My Weird Kids Are Just Like Their Mother
- 100 Things I Enjoy, 11-20
- 100 Things I Enjoy, 21-30
- 100 Things I Enjoy, 41-50
- 10 Ways the Great Wolf Lodge is Better Than the Beach
- The Nittany Lion
- Puppy Love
- Grace Did Not Enjoy Playing in the Snow
- 10 Things You Should Not Do In An Airport
- Making up a Toddler Bed
- Want To Go For A Ride?
- My Goal for 2012 - No More Excuses
- My Huge Leap of Faith
- Allie is a Big Girl Now
- On Joe Paterno, Loyalty, and Humanity
- Dad, We Have to Have a Little Talk
- Blog Friends
- I'm Excited About Getting Older
- Why I'm Going Gluten Free
- Inadequate Mom (Or, How Grace Was at the Olive Garden with No Underwear)
- My Mother's Legacy
- 30 days to happiness gratitude challenge
- Sixth grade
- Grace's All That Glitters Party
- Photos With Santa
- Lonely But Never Alone
- I Have Momentum
- 13.25 Inches Lost
- I'm Shrinking!
- The Real Difference Between People Who Exercise and People Who Don't
- Big Frustrations and Small Successes on the Way to Lasting Weight Loss
- We Didn't Have a Choice
- Why?
- I Was Broken
- Visiting the Alpaca Farm
- Who Do You Want to Be?
- Allison's Birth Story
- Super Gracie to the Rescue
- 100 Things I Enjoy, 1-10
- So Happy
- Visiting Old Grandma
- Onions and Sinners
- 100 Things I Enjoy, 91-100
- 100 Things I Enjoy, 71-80
- My Knock-the-Ball-Out-of-the-Park Life
- What I Learned About God When I Stopped Trying to Control My Life
- Why I Have Decided to Have Bariatric Surgery - Gastric Sleeve Surgery
- Bariatric Gastric Sleeve Surgery - 10 Days Post-Op
- 4 Days Post-Op - Bariatric Gastric Sleeve Surgery
- 35 Almost Daily Habits That Make Life Great
- 35 Things I Want to Do in my 35th Year
- Overscheduled
- Did You Do Anything Today?
- My Gratitude Journal
- A Day in the Life of a Mom Blogger
- Mama, You Are Doing a Great Job With Those Children
- 19 Days Post Bariatric Gastric Sleeve Surgery
- "Go to Ninevah!"
- Stuff my 3-Year-Old Says
- Watch Me on HuffPost Live - Not Bringing the Holidays Down a Notch
- God Spoke To Me - And Not How You Think
- 11 Things That Happen As You Get Older
- Crippled by Technology
- The Unfortunate Potato Chip Incident
- Playing in the Creek
- 32 Things I Did in My 32nd Year
- Grace's Build-A-Bear Workshop Birthday Party
- Allie and the iPad
- 10 Life Lessons I Learned at the Titus 2:1 Conference
- Teaching Reading Using Sight Words Go Fish
- No One Warned Me (On Being a Stay-at-Home-Mom)
- Motherhood is Glamorous
- My New Schedule featuring Tell Your Time by Amy Lynn Andrews
- I Am Brilliant (Or, How I Fixed a Toy That Was Ruined By Battery Acid)
- Grace's Birth Story
- Sister Lullaby
- Pink Boogers
- How to Make a Toddler Pillow & a Toddler Quilt