From the monthly archives:

October 2010

sci-tech center’s math midway exhibit

October 30, 2010

dallas childrens museum sci tech center light spinner

What a difference a year makes. A year ago the Sci-Tech Discovery Center, a Dallas area children’s museum, opened its doors. Its doors were connected to a very large warehouse space with unfinished walls, ceilings and mobile restrooms. After the Grossology exhibit was completed, they closed down for 6 months and redesigned the space into [...]

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a slice of 6th street with pizza on the side

October 28, 2010

Last weekend I was in Austin, Texas for Bloggy Bootcamp with the fabulous SITS Girls. Sunday morning found a few of us roaming 6th Street in search of breakfast… ..but we stopped when we smelled that pizza. A plate with TWO large pieces of pizza, a roof-top patio, and a group of fellow bloggers turned [...]

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lego minifigure dance party

October 27, 2010

I was presented this by Reid(7) the other morning: “It’s a storm trooper dance party”. Oh, and the light above them actually lights up. I have two questions about this masterpiece… Where does he come up with this stuff? Should I be doing a 2 am bed-check?

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what it means to be a mommy blogger

October 26, 2010

WARNING: This is not a usual June Cleaver Nirvana post. I am not quitting blogging. I am not having a nervous breakdown. In fact, it has been a lovely day. This post is about how my blog has unknowingly turned into a BRAND. Writing about the fact that my blog has turned into a brand [...]

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a tale of four sofas

October 25, 2010

orange sofa at Dallas Musuem of Modern Art

When we built our home over 5 years ago, my first purchase was a pair of yummy couches from StoreHouse (don’t even get me STARTED on the fact that they have since gone out of business…I did MY part.) Welcome sofas 1 & 2! They are huge and sit across from each other in our [...]

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it is jeanetic

October 22, 2010

Holly got ready. Ready for something she hasn’t done in years. Holly realized that she had only one pair of jeans that fit well. She had no choice but to go shopping for another pair. Why has Holly not been jean shopping for years? Maybe because last time she went shopping for jeans she entered [...]

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where holly starts planning an arranged marriage

October 20, 2010

4 year old boy on swing talking about marriage

Today was one of those rare and treasured family outing days. The boys didn’t have school due to parent/teacher conferences and I sped through those meetings and was back home by 9. Blog-Stedman had the day off so the stars were properly aligned and we packed up the SUV and went to the children’s museum [...]

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easy easy halloween decor

October 19, 2010

skeleton is arranged for Halloween decorations

Let me start this with a tiny, little admission… I am NOT a big holiday decorator. Just the THOUGHT of decorating something that will last only a few weeks makes me tired. I do toss around a little tinsel at Christmas, but I have tried to avoid Hobby Lobby for the minor holidays. And then [...]

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beef pot roast with maple sweet potatoes and cider gravy

October 18, 2010

beef pot roast with cider gravy plated with maple mashed sweet potatoes

beef pot roast cider gravy maple sweet potatoes

This beef pot roast with cider gravy was my favorite thing to taste at the Texas Beef Council’s Appetite for Inspiration with Chef Richard Chamberlain. I am not a big fan of sweet potatoes in any form beside fries, so it was a surprise to me to fall in love with this maple flavored side [...]

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good bye june cleaver

October 17, 2010

On Saturday, June Cleaver died. Barbara Billingsley who played the iconic role of June Cleaver on Leave it to Beaver passed away. Leave it to Beaver originally ran from 1957 to 1963. It was 239 episodes of ideal family life. Although it was a TV story not realistically achievable in real life, I love the [...]

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wendys pick 2

October 17, 2010

Wendy and I go WAY back…back to my days as a vegetarian when she was the only fast food restaurant that embraced anything remotely non-animalish. Fast forward 10 years and I was working at a hospital where the closest place to avoid hospital food was a Wendy’s in the adjoining parking lot. I lived on [...]

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