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Pintershit: The Nail Polish Edition

Today’s Pinterest rant is targeting nails. Full disclosure–I’m not a big fan of painting my nails. It’s not because I’m not girly or I don’t think it’s pretty. It’s just I’m a perfectionist and I can’t...

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What This Girl Wants

The clock is officially ticking on Christmas, and I gotta tell you: I’m skeered.  It doesn’t take a math whiz to figure out that between my time in the car squiring children to their various...

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Fabulous Gifts For Teen Girls

We’re not much for the Black Friday hoopla, but we can get down with Cyber Monday. How can you beat shopping in your pajamas or while you’re at work–on break of course <ahem>. So we’re making...

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Finding the Funny While Recovering From Black Friday

Got your shopping done? Neither do we. And if you’re jumping up and down raising your hand saying, “Yes, me, me, me!!” we have some duct tape we would like to introduce you to, in the nicest way...

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Feeling Holiday Stress? #TalkEarly and The Sisterhood are Here to the Rescue!

On Dasher and Dancer, it’s party time again! Holiday cookie swap? We’re firing up the ol’ oven and rattling our cookie sheets. Seasonal Open House? We’ve got a wheel of brie and some phyllo dough at...

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5 Gifts That Keep on Giving

Just a little heads up: Christmas is a week away which means, boys and girls, that  it’s go time! We know you might be rocking in a corner somewhere or railing against the gods of timesuck that you...

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The Script for Saying No! Let it No!

The holiday crush is upon us: cards, concerts, parties, cookies, cooking, shopping, wrapping, sending, decorating, decking, caroling . . . Let it No! Ellen: I can’t decide it if I want that to be sung...

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The Best Kitchen Gadgets Gift Guide

You know we love to cook. We have the recipes to prove it. So trust us when we say the kitchen maestros in your life would love anything from this kitchen gadgets gift guide! Cooks love things that...

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Banish Holiday Stress (Tongue-In-Cheek Required)

The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year or at least that’s what the song says. But as any angel-wing-making, pageant-attending, cookie-swap-baking parent knows, it can also be the most...

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How Our Christmas Ornaments Tell the Stories of Our Lives

Our trees might be rejected as centerfolds for Southern Living, but they take center stage in our hearts because they are chock full of memories. Don’t get us wrong. We love the balanced,...

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It Really IS a Wonderful Life

It’s Go TIme for Christmas, people! Shipping deadlines may have come and gone, but there is still a ton to do. The cookies that were baked need to be packaged, the cards that were bought need to be...

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How A Concussion, A Tree, and A Trip to NYC Saved My Holiday Sanity

I struggled with that title a bit because we try to keep it PG around here, you know, for the children. Let’s just say this has been the season of “effits” for me. And it has saved my sanity this...

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The Holidays are Coming! (And We’re Freaking Out!)

Do you feel like the holidays are one raging whitewater current sweeping you up in October and dumping you onto the barren shore just south of New Year’s Eve? Or is it north of? Either way . . . US...

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2015 Teen Gift Guide

Teens are a notoriously tough crowd, so we get the sheer panic at trying to buy a gift for them. A stack of gift cards or a card stuffed with cash would certainly be appreciated, but there is no need...

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Stages of Shutterfly Deadline Delusion

So you decided one fine December that it would be super swell to make photo books as holiday gifts for the grandparents, siblings, and aunts. And it was . . . but it was so much work. So. Much. Work....

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The Perfect Gift: Jord Watches

‘Tis the season for gift guides, and we are pros at it. We have lists for the teens in your life: boys and girls. We have a guide for men and a specific one for kitchen gadgets. But there is one gift...

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The Last Christmas Pageant

It was an especially busy week last week. Winter concerts backed up to fall sports banquets (don’t even ask) which piled on top of all of our regularly scheduled things to create a perfect storm of...

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Best and Easiest Gift Exchange Idea Ever!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Wait, let me make that a little more accurate: It’s the most INSANE time of the year! Okay, now I feel like the Grinch. How about, it’s the most insanely...

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Five Things Better to Give Than Presents

It’s that point in the busy holiday season where we are all calling which corner we want to rock in later when we get a free moment. We say that you can keep on railing against the gods of time suck or...

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Gadget Gifts to Thrill for Way Under $50

‘Tis the time in the season where we all hit gift gathering crunch time. Are you checking your lists and just now realizing there is nothing on there to “WOW” them? I mean, I know they really, really...

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