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I made this from Pinterest. – Wordless Wednesday

Ilinap · June 27, 2012 ·

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Tags: cook, food, pinterest, wordless Wednesday

Ingredients and Chemical Compounds

Ilinap · June 26, 2012 ·

Here's the tagline for a body wash product I just got a sample of: "Clean you expect. Ingredients you trust." Here's the list of ingredients (in order): Water - Off to a good start. I know what this is! Cocamidopropyl Betaine - Voted 2004 Allergen of the Year by the … [Read more...] about Ingredients and Chemical Compounds

Tags: beauty, health

Happy Birthday Deal! – 5:00 Fridays for Kids

Ilinap · June 22, 2012 ·

Guess how much I love you? Today my baby boy is 7. Deal was born sunnyside up, an apt indicator of his personality and outlook. My sweet Deal is quite simply the most darling little boy I know. I'm biased, but if you met him you would concur. He is shyly quiet but … [Read more...] about Happy Birthday Deal! – 5:00 Fridays for Kids

Tags: 5:00 Fridays, children, Deal, family, kids, love, motherhood

Just Sayin’

Ilinap · June 21, 2012 ·

If you can't walk gracefully instead of teetering like you have a corncob stuck up your tush, don't buy the shoes. If you can't sit in it without showing the world the color of the cotton panel in your panties, don't buy the skirt. If you can't keep the straps up or the … [Read more...] about Just Sayin’

Tags: random

Daddy’s Drink – 5:00 Fridays

Ilinap · June 15, 2012 ·

  Mac Daddy is the ultimate dad. He has been since day one. I never loved him more than when I watched him cradle newborn baby Bird in the middle of the night when we brought him home from the hospital. Our house was a disheveled disaster as we were in the midst of … [Read more...] about Daddy’s Drink – 5:00 Fridays

Tags: 5:00 Fridays, children, family, fun, happy hour, kids, love, Mac Daddy, parenting, party

We Met Jimmy Carter

Ilinap · June 12, 2012 ·

  What an honor, what a privilege, what a mind trip to meet the person whom we admire so deeply.  I die! While sipping margaritas in Key West many years ago, Mac Daddy and I agreed to name our firstborn child after Jimmy Carter. Somehow Carter had come up in … [Read more...] about We Met Jimmy Carter

Tags: America, Bird, children, family, Jimmy Carter, politics, president, thankful, travel, vacation

Toasting Art and Ray Bradbury – 5:00 Fridays

Ilinap · June 8, 2012 ·

First Maurice Sendak, now Ray Bradbury. There's one hell of a happy hour going on in a library in heaven right now. It's fitting that Ray Bradbury died on the same day I learned of art being discounted at my sons' school (literally and figuratively banished to the basement, or … [Read more...] about Toasting Art and Ray Bradbury – 5:00 Fridays

Tags: 5:00 Fridays, art, education, happy hour, party, reading, writing

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