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Feb2

My First Deal!

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And by mine I mean Gabe’s.  But I’m taking the credit.  That’s just how I roll.  As I’ve said before, I want this blog to represent who I am and all things modest.  One of the ways we’ve been doing our best to live modestly is to really watch our budget (it’s pretty much a requirement when one of the two people supporting the household is an unemployed college student!). We love to read but that’s not always cheap when looking for new books and fun reads.

That’s where Gabe’s deal comes in.  Not only do we love to read but Gabe is a fabulous writer who wants to share his work as much as possible with the world.  Starting tomorrow (Friday February 3rd) at 3:00 a.m. (12:00 PST) his collection of short stories, Contemplations of Dinner, will be FREE at amazon.com in the Kindle store for 48 hours.  If you don’t have a Kindle don’t let that scare you off.  I have an iPod and love the Kindle app.  You can also download the Kindle app for your PC!  And do you know how much the app costs?  It’s completely free too!  How awesome is that?  Oh and there is no limit to who can get the deal.  You are welcome to share this deal with the world too. 

If you love a deal as much as I do, and want to read a good collection of stories, swing by amazon.com and grab Contemplations of Dinner for free.  Your weekend reading is just a click away and won’t cost you a thing!

Jan30

My Little Punky Brewster

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That little pumpkin over there to the right is my modest girl who has a LOT of ideas about how she should be dressing. Her favorite formula for an outfit is “a skirt, leggings, and a shirt”.  And that’s exactly how she says it.  Normally it’s something like “can I have a skirt, leggings, and a shirt?” or “I picked out a skirt, lettings, and a shirt”.  Oh and every once in a while “I don’t want that skirt, leggings, and shirt!”.  Generally that one is said with yelling and tears because apparently I’m trying to dress her horribly.  She has her own style, that’s for sure.

This outfit, for example, is most definitely of her doing (please pardon the quality, I took it with my phone because she stopped for a minute and I didn’t have time to grab a proper camera).  She actually wore the dress to church yesterday but with brown tights and a cute cream sweater.  Today she has her polka dot dress paired with polka dot leggings and while it’s hard to see, the hood on her jacket has pink polka dots.  I am a BIG fan of polka dots and think they are just lovely but this MIGHT be a bit much.  If I had picked this outfit out it would have probably lead to World War III with wailing and gnashing of teeth but because it is her choice she is more than happy to prance around looking like she got dressed in the dark.  Oh well, at least I didn’t have to pick it out!

Jan29

Sifting Through

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While perusing my Facebook page the last couple of days and scrolling through the updates, I realized I barely recognized half of the names I was looking at.  I had a list of 440 “friends”, some of which I don’t talk to and barely know.  There are times I have had to scroll through endlessly to find an update from someone I really know and correspond with.  That is just silly and so I decided to pare that down a little bit.  By the time I got done I was at 398.

Hhhmmm.  I’m not sure how to feel about that.  I mean, I love meeting new people and I love that I feel like I have contact with so many people in my life, so it’s not like I am opposed to having a larger number in that spot. As a matter of fact, there are people I know through blogging and through Facebook that I’ve never even met face to face.  One of my closest friends, known around my house as “Canada Jenn”, lives in another country.  And some of the greatest support and advice I have gotten the last few years as a new mom and going back to school has come from all over the world.

So yeah, I love meeting and getting to know people.  But do these people really know me?  I think that’s part of the point of starting this blog.  I want to share so much more about myself than what fits in a Facebook status update or a quick tweet.  Maybe my friend number will go up from here, we shall see.