tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42334631904624234282024-02-02T16:19:09.639-05:00These Ripples and WavesJennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.comBlogger687125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-33534301976747554792018-10-23T11:23:00.000-04:002018-10-23T11:23:31.303-04:00Thirty-One<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My birthday has become a point of reflection for me. Every year I seem to find the time to spend a few minutes alone looking back at the past year and pondering the one of the future.</div>
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My thirties haven't been so bad, really. This must be the age of not giving a flying $#!@ because I find myself caring less and less about the trivial stuff every day.</div>
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I'm rediscovering and reinventing myself based on who I truly am, not who the world wants me to be, and I have loved it. I'm chasing joy, chasing home, and finding it easier to find all the time.</div>
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Will all of my thirties be this way?</div>
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I cannot tell you when I fell in love with words.<br />
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Whether it be when I was a child and the familiar stories told from golden-bound books poured into my imagination, or when I was a teenager and my diaries were filled with pages of angst and anger and a longing to find love and belonging. Or now, as an adult, when words can be the place that I feel most vulnerable and powerful but also <i>whole</i>.<br />
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I do not know when but I do know that if ignored, that itch, that need, eventually builds and bubbles up from inside of me until it's all I can do not to find my fingers on keys or pencil on paper until the words spill like ink, spreading across the page in a sudden flow.<br />
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Is this what it means to be a writer?<br />
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Or is the internal struggle to control the tongue, to force the unspoken into existence when the mind says "QUIET!" all too loud, are these words only a form of overflow? Like lava that cannot be contained a moment more, spewing from the deep only to wreak havoc, to carve a new way. Its beauty destructive and terrifying but also necessary.<br />
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I am home here. Safe.<br />
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This is love.JennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-36870351102579727172018-04-28T08:40:00.001-04:002018-04-28T08:40:29.335-04:00Love MoreWhen I met my husband and he asked me to marry him 6 short months after meeting, I didn't think I could love anyone more.<br />
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Two months later we walked down the aisle together and said 'I Do' and began our lives together growing together, laughing and loving through the everyday mundane together, and I really didn't think I could love anyone more.<br />
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Fast forward to a tiny heartbeat filling a room as our eyes filled with tears, the tiny fluttering on the screen a miracle all on it's own - now I was SURE I couldn't love anyone more.<br />
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That tiny heartbeat developed into a rolling, kicking extension of my body and I had never loved my OWN body more - but then it was born, and I held my son in my arms and my heart burst because I had never, ever loved anyone more.<br />
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He grew and his mommy and daddy did too. There were good times and there were bad times. There were easy times and there were hard times (really, really hard times, if we are going to be honest). Now I sit and I look at my life, surrounded by my boys, and I understand why we are not given an infinite amount of time to love. Given an eternity my heart would not be able to withstand this extraordinary love that constantly grows.<br />
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I see my son develop daily into his very own person with quirks and attitude, likes and dislikes, that are unique only to him and my heart melts. Curled up on the couch with a stuffed cat tucked into his arm, a fuzzy vest that hangs to his knees his favorite piece of clothing, his hat turned inside out, and watching a YouTube video about kid hacks and inventions - I couldn't love a boy more.<br />
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I look back at the 10 years that I've spent with my husband and sit in awe at how far we have come. We have seen heartache together. We have seen the worst of each other. We have lost all humility and have fallen vulnerable at one another's feet more than once. And while there were times I wasn't sure I loved him like I did when we met, I realized over time that the love wasn't lost, but more the patience and the understanding of humanity and all that it brings to the table. The fight was worth it because a love like this is worth it. As we grow older together, raising this boy together that we couldn't love more, I realize too that I only love him more. His quirks. His books on tape. His obsession with Tesla and Jeopardy. His cheesy jokes, constant picking, and his desires in life - I couldn't love anyone more.<br />
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Everyday, it seems, I only love more.JennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-59768835908462082482018-04-08T13:50:00.000-04:002018-04-08T13:50:52.517-04:00Bark<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've reflected a lot on my life over the years. Yesterday I ran my fingers over bark, comparing the texture from one tree to the next, and I thought: life is not much different. We all weather it differently, some of us with tough exteriors, rough skin and callouses, while others appear gentle and smooth and less...worn. There's always more than what meets the eye, and what we hold inside is always more precious than what's visible. Always.</div>
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I'm sitting sideline, trying my best not to interfere too much, as I watch my son grow and develop into this person all his own. Quirks, humor, motivation, and annoyances that he did not get from me or his father - they are unique to him alone, and I love exploring these parts of him, probing deeper into his individualism. I am broken as a mother that wishes to keep this perfect human to myself for all of my life with the knowledge that he is quickly gaining independence that steps further and further away from his parents.</div>
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I will always love him and he will always know that I do. Perhaps this is the one thing he needs to know as he evolves: that he is loved, and cherished, and always has a place to call home. As he stands against the storms of life, his bark will form. I have no control over that texture, it is all his own, but I hope I can influence what he holds precious inside.</div>
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*holds up six fingers* Six!</center>
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*shakes his box of Gobstoppers* These.</center>
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Breadsticks. Actually, no, anything that tastes like oranges. But not oranges. Can you ask me what my favorite candy is?</center>
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*shakes his box of Gobstoppers again* These!</center>
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Do that blanket thing where I put his blanket in his legs and I sit in it.</center>
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Let me go decide. *goes upstairs for ten minutes* Okay, I've decided: ALL of my toys but some. Cause there's some toys up here that I don't really play with a lot. Like this merry-go-round, I don't really play with that because it doesn't have any horses and I don't think a merry-go-round is really a merry-go-round without any horses!</center>
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JennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-53611458901952354742016-12-21T00:00:00.000-05:002016-12-21T00:00:05.498-05:00Crayon Snowflake Gift Exchange<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
One of the exciting things about having a school-aged child is all of the little gifts that we get to put together for his classmates. I know it sounds very Martha-Stewart but I absolutely LOVE creating little things to give away.</div>
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When I received the flyer saying that Henry's class was going to have a Christmas gift exchange in order to share in the spirit of the holiday, I was super excited. I immediately started brainstorming and together we came up with this idea: snowflake crayons!</div>
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Making snowflake crayons is really quite simple. Find a silicone mold that you really love, obviously in this case we used snowflakes.</div>
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Find some old broken crayons or buy some new - unwrap of paper completely and then put them into the mold, being sure not to overfill so it doesn't spill over. This is when you can have the most fun. Henry and I really enjoyed mixing different color combinations and seeing how they turned out. We came to find that adding a little piece of white or cream created our absolute favorite crayons because i stuck out just so much.</div>
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Bake at 250 degrees until completely melted and then remove and let them cool completely before removing them. The more intricate designs were a little harder to remove, but most of them came out pretty easily.</div>
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Paired with a small coloring page (CG, Henry's favorite of course) and a few other small trinkets and you have the perfect little gift to give away. Making 18 to share was little work at all and we had a ton of fun doing it!</div>
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In this house we do snow, and we do snow <b>all. day. long</b>.<br />
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I'm sad that the temp has been dropping so low that we haven't had any opportunity to get out lately, but I'm sure we'll have more opportunities through out the winter months. In the mean-time, enjoy these photos of my little snow-boy. Tell me, what is your favorite thing to do in the snow? Isn't it so magical and lovely?<br />
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<br />JennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.com1Ohio, USA40.4172871 -82.90712300000001334.192851100000006 -93.278217000000012 46.6417231 -72.536029000000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-43842312578420767032016-12-17T00:00:00.000-05:002016-12-17T00:00:01.807-05:00The Easiest (last minute) Cookies EverI spent a good portion of my Saturday making the fluffiest sour cream cookies for our work cookie exchange this week. Henry and I mixed and blended and chilled and rolled and cut and baked and iced for hours on end. They were gorgeous and delicious too, you can find the recipe <a href="http://www.theseripplesandwaves.com/2016/12/fluffy-old-fashioned-sour-cream-cookies.html">here</a>.<br />
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Someone(s), however, has been eating those cookies all week and come Thursday, I found myself looking at a small little plate of <i>maybe</i> eight cookies. I was in a bind with very little time and I really didn't want to be the flop of our cookie exchange.</div>
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Now typically I like to share some made-from-the-heart, fresh-baked goodies. Handmade and homemade is 100% my style. But with work and school and everything else in between, I just could not make the time.</div>
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Cue the Hershey-drop cookies and the easy-peesy savior of my cookie dilemma. Seriously the easy save-the-day cookie recipes that I could come up with:</div>
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1) Purchase your favorite break and bake sugar cookie dough and a bag of Hershey kisses.</div>
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Couldn't get any easier, right? I plated them with a few extra Hershey kisses and now they're all ready to go. The best part? It took me less than a total of 30 minutes. You really can't beat that in the realm of cookies!!</div>
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I recently found <a href="http://www.theyummylife.com/Sour_Cream_Sugar_Cookies">this recipe</a> on Pinterest for old-fashioned sour cream cookies and we have already made it four times in the last month. It's that good. Plus side is that it's not super complicated and I swear these big, fluffy cookies are a no-fail, we haven't had ONE turn out wrong. They last a good while and they're perfect for fun personalized gifts this holiday season.<br />
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5-1/2 cups flour<br />
1 teaspoon baking soda<br />
1/2 teaspoon salt<br />
1 cup sour cream, room temperature<br />
1 cup butter, softened<br />
2 cups sugar<br />
2 eggs<br />
1 teaspoon vanilla<br />
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I'm going to try to simplify the recipe but if you want detailed instructions, check out the link above.<br />
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1.) Mix the dry ingredients in one bowl and the wet ingredients in another then slowly mix the two together. The dough will be super sticky and will likely have to be mixed by hand towards the end.<br />
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5) Cool and then top with your favorite icing or glaze. We tend to stick to good old fashioned powdered sugar with a little milk and almond extract. It hardens up and is the perfect amount of sweetness to pair with the big, fluffy cookies.<br />
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I'd love to hear about you and your littles favorite recipe to make together!JennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.com1Ohio, USA40.4172871 -82.90712300000001334.192851100000006 -93.278217000000012 46.6417231 -72.536029000000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-4804765653140487522016-12-09T17:58:00.000-05:002016-12-12T22:35:43.558-05:00Friday Five<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Five things I've loved this week: </div>
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1. Snow, home, and the sparkle of Christmas lights. </div>
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2. Purple filled with hints of red and pink. Proof that beauty can hide until you take the initiative to look deep.</div>
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3. Homemade gifts that are completely unique and carry with them a part of me. </div>
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4. Innocence in a too-fast growing boy when he sleeps. My heart skips a beat. </div>
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5. A surprise for my husband that I can't wait for him to see. </div>
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Every great now and then Jeremy can catch lunch together and we typically hit up the soup and salad buffet at Big Boy. I love their veggie soup but on the days that they have tortilla soup, I typically go back for seconds because it is SO good. </div>
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It's gotten cold here in Ohio and I haven't felt very well the last few days so this soup was calling my name. I knew it would be pretty simple to come up with something similar so here is my own version. </div>
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1 can of diced tomatoes with chiles<br />
1 container of Swanson Mexican broth<br />
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I've made this in a half hour on the stove top or thrown all of my ingredients in the crock pot and let it simmer all day. Most of the time I just throw in a couple of frozen chicken breasts, let it cook, then remove and shred them right before we eat.<br />
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We usually have tortilla chips or strips and shredded cheese with ours but any sort of taco topping would be delicious!<br />
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Enjoy!JennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-28682518842056964792016-11-12T11:54:00.001-05:002016-12-15T22:25:45.176-05:00Autumn Fun<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Twenty-nine; the last year of calling myself a 'twenty-something', and one more year of experience behind me.</div>
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Am I older and wiser? Apparently not, as I'm nursing a pounding headache and queasy stomach from one-too-many drinks last night. (Water, Jennifer, water... you should know this by now!)</div>
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Consider it my last big toast to what has been a pretty routine year.</div>
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The important thing was that I had an absolute blast. I celebrated with so many wonderful friends and we talked and laughed and ate and spent hours together just <i>being</i>. This morning we gathered around my kitchen table and ate the huge breakfast I prepared and I felt full. Completely.</div>
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My heart is full.<br />
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The next year is already half-planned, half-filled. However, as my favorite band put it so well...</div>
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"And all I know is that I still don't know a lot. I don't know how it end, I'm in the middle of this plot."</div>
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All in God's plan, God's time.</div>
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I am so extremely blessed.</div>
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Here's to twenty-nine, getting older, and loving every minute of it.</div>
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JennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-42458609914263799542016-08-24T20:04:00.001-04:002016-08-24T20:04:51.682-04:00Our Kindergartener<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My social media feeds have been FULL this week of those back to school pictures and I wasn't ashamed a bit to throw mine right into the mix. We now have a kindergartner, and two days in, he's loving it. I'm so proud of my little man, and so shocked that he is old enough to be in school! I was a little sad dropping him off that first day, but I didn't cry a bit because this boy has got this. I love him so much.</div>
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I am FINALLY getting around to taking some of Henry's 5 year photos. We wandered out in the rain last night at about 10 p.m. and took these - I had been envisioning them for awhile. Now just to take some good old 'normal' day time photos (and sort through all our vacation photos) and I might just be caught up photography wise.</div>
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<br />JennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-21588949774119094752016-08-11T20:56:00.000-04:002016-08-11T20:56:19.806-04:00Waning SummerSummer is almost gone.<br />
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Soon the days will grow shorter and before we know it we'll be pulling out our sweaters and scarves, talking about how much we love fall and sipping on everything pumpkin spice.<br />
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I'm right there with you; I love me some fall.<br />
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But just like the late summer heat leads into the cooler temperatures of fall, fall leads into winter and that period of time that we all wish for spring to arrive again. It's an endless cycle and one we expect but rarely take the time to learn from.<br />
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In life we often find ourselves in seasons of intense heat and pressure, followed by those cooler temps that allow us to love and enjoy everything that surrounds us.<br />
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Then there are other seasons that we feel alone and cold and barren and we long for another spring to arrive: for life to seemingly begin again.<br />
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Sometimes it's difficult to remember that seasons in our lives will come and go, that there is a cycle, that the bad times don't and won't last forever - and the good times won't either.<br />
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As the leaves change into their brilliant oranges and reds and we appreciate the beauty of nature evolving, may we appreciate the beauty of our own lives, their evolution and the fact that <u>nothing</u> lasts forever.JennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-91235476461307846562016-07-26T19:09:00.000-04:002016-07-26T19:09:29.510-04:00Henry's Curious George Racing Party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />JennOveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06122193099387765604noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4233463190462423428.post-63431561816554637372016-07-26T18:45:00.001-04:002016-07-26T18:45:19.157-04:00Henry's Five Year Questionnaire <center>
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Umm...FISH AND LOBSTER! Cause I remember that I love fish and I love lobster.</center>
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Reading and cooking and swimming.</center>
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Play and work on cars and swim.</center>
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My legos... and everything else. I really love to blow bubbles cause I love bubbles. </center>
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Mickey book.</center>
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Boys will be boys: dirty, curious, and full of <i>life</i>. </div>
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Henry's very last day of preschool is Thursday. I can't believer the year has gone by so fast!</center>
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I wanted to make his teachers (he has five) a little something as a thank you for the end of the year, but I didn't want to spend a bunch of money either.</center>
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I found these cute little 'Thanks for helping me grow' labels <a href="http://www.sippycupmom.com/thank-helping-grow-printable-15-teacher-appreciation-gifts/">here</a> and my inspiration ran from there.</center>
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- A container. (I found my at Dollar Tree, five for $1.00!)</center>
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Print your labels, pretty them up by gluing them to some pretty scrap paper, and add your flowers and you're good to go! I cute down my pinwheels and skewers so they weren't so tall and taped my label to the stick.</center>
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Easy, simple and each one cost less than $3.00! You can't beat that for an adorable gift for that perfect teacher!</center>
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I guess I liked this book. It wasn't <i>bad</i> so to speak, but I didn't love it. I had to force myself to finish it because I felt like there were a lot of dry 'spots' but overall, it was <i>okay</i>. I would recommend it if you really love mysteries.</center>
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Since they are a trilogy, I'm going to group these three together. I loved The Hunger Games series. There were a few very expected parts, but overall, I loved the story. I am a little late on the bandwagon on this one because well, I always am, but if you're looking for something fun and exciting to get wrapped up in, this is definitely a good series to read. The movies were pretty good too, not gonna lie.</center>
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This is re-read for me and I actually finished it the first week of April but I'm grouping it in March because I read MOST of it in March. This it the first book in a series and the first time around I read them all at once. This time I am breaking them up a bit. I loved this book almost as much as I loved it the first time. It's very fairy-tale-ish, if that's your thing. </center>
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I am officially 8 book into my 25 book challenge. This is what I read this month:</div>
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<b><u>The Martian</u></b><br /><br />Many of you have probably seen the movie based on this book. I won't lie, I immediately rented it and watched it after I finished reading the book. The book was better (isn't it always?) and I would rate it high, although definitely not a favorite. If you can't stand a bit of scientific talk, I probably wouldn't reccomend it, but overall, it was a fantastic thriller, keeping you guessing as to what possibly could come next.</div>
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<b><u>We Were Liars</u></b></div>
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I attempted to read this last year and could not get into it. I've noticed that sometimes a book just doesn't call to me at that time but if I revisit it later, I may just fall in love. So the story goes for this book. I think it took me a total of two or three days to finish it because I just couldn't put it down. I love the story, I love how it's written, I love the tragedy of the idea and why.</div>
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<b><u>All The Light We Cannot See</u></b></div>
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This was my favorite read for the month. A heart-wrenching, mysterious, thrilling read that holds historic truths behind the scenes, views from several sides, and was full of intelligent ideas and bantor. The way it is written keeps your attention held despite times in which the story is full of more facts, back-story, etc... at first I hated the short, 1, 2, 3, 4 page chapters, but being a busy working mom, it allowed me to fit in a chapter here and there quite often without needing a lot of time. If you like historic fiction, this is a definite must-read. Go put it on your list now!</div>
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I don't have any 'for sure' books on the list for March, but I'm about halfway through The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and have The Hunger Games trilogy in my bookshelf. This is my second attempt at TGwtDT, and although I've read a good portion of it, I still can't say that I'm actually into it or enjoying it. I may force myself to finish it with the hopes it gets better.</div>
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