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Date Night to Celebrate Our Town

by Nina on January 28, 2012

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Joe and I attended our town’s 69th Annual Chamber dinner last night. We live in a wonderful little town, full of incredible people. Three special people are recognized at this dinner every year for three different distinguished awards. The best part of this is the recipients come to the dinner without knowing they are receiving an award so the people are always surprised. The moments are always touching. I always cry!

Before the blessing of the food, the pastor asked that we all stand to pray the Jewish prayer of the sick for our friend, Beth. For those of you that do not follow me on Twitter, we have a family friend that had a extremely serious accident two weeks ago. Beth suffered life endangering trauma to her head. She is fighting to recover and we all continue to pray and support her family during this time. It’s an amazing feeling when you are standing in a room of people of all different faiths and everyone puts their own aside to pray the prayer of the faith of a friend.

I’ve left out names and last names for privacy reasons.

The following is the Mi Sheberakh: The traditional Jewish prayer for the sick
May the One who blessed our ancestors — Patriarchs [...] — bless and heal the one who is ill: Elizabeth [...] daughter of [...]. May the Holy Blessed One overflow with compassion upon her, to restore her, to heal her, to strengthen her, to enliven her. The One will send her, speedily, a complete healing — healing of the soul and healing of the body — along with all the ill, among the people of Israel and all humankind, soon, speedily, without delay, and let us all say: Amen!

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Gift Ideas from Baby Dumpling Design

by Nina on January 27, 2012

We received this precious hat from some of our friends from up north. Dallas and I met in college at the Sigma Kappa house! How things have changed since those days? Ha! She so generously sent this thoughtful gift to Jack! And of course being a sucker for adorable gifts and sharing my finds with all of you, I had to post this immediately.

Here’s the skinny, the company’s name is Baby Dumpling Designs. They are located in Chicago, IL but take orders on their blog and Facebook page.

The girl hats with a tiny flower next to the initial letter are sweet and Jack will definitely need one of the anchor hats for early boating season! Don’t worry it’s not all for babies and kids, Baby Dumpling Designs makes a very cute infinity scarf out of a knit jersey for grown ups too!

Happy Shopping!

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I’m No Fool! Are You?

by Nina on January 27, 2012

I tweeted about this yesterday while shopping at Hobby Lobby but I’m still not over it. I personally believe the pillow industry is out to screw us!

Look at this pillow! Let’s start with the less obvious points – 1. the fill of the pillow was not even a real pillow insert. 2. The material was of poor quality. And then to the screaming fuchsia arrows – 1. the pillow is falling apart and it’s still living on the shelves of the store. 2. The 66% off clearance tag is $30.60. Could you even get passed the $EIGHTY NINE NINETY NINE price? Me either!

I headed over to TJMaxx and although our store is what I consider poorly stocked. I found these two striped pillows for our couch for $16.99 each. You can see the difference for yourself. Night and day.

I threw this up here for a quick visual. I’m not so sure but I do love the pillows. The pillows may end up somewhere else in our house but I’m very pleased with the quality and price from TJMaxx!

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The Rise is High

by Nina on January 26, 2012

all images via zappos

I know what you are thinking, high rise jeans = grandma but I guarantee you your grandma is not wearing these 7 for All Mankind High Rise Bootcut! I ordered these from Zappos earlier this week. They arrived two days ago and I immediately fell in love. They are unbelievably slimming, just the right amount of stretch and you don’t have to worry about your Hanky Pankys sticking out because they are not the low-rise jeans your 16-year-old babysitter is wearing! Now what shoes to wear? I’m a huge fan of cognac colored shoes (shown in the pictures above) but high heels don’t exactly fit in my every day wardrobe anymore.

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Being Yourself is the Best Way to Be

by Nina on January 25, 2012

Jack’s buddies, Hudson and Hayes sent this I Love Monkey book and plush monkey set to him for Christmas and as you can see he loves it! Monkey’s arms are the perfect size for Jack to wrap his little hands around and Monkey isn’t too heavy so he can drag him around with him as he rolls all around the living room. Monkey’s story is fantastic too! It’s all being yourself and how special you are because you’re you! You don’t have to be anyone other than yourself! Many thanks again to Hudson, Hayes and his sweet parents too!

I Love Monkey book and monkey set is a wonderful gift for any child at pretty much any age! I love gifting things that deliver a wonderful message as well as something fun for the kids.

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Favorite Finds in my Reader

by Nina on January 23, 2012

A Southern Accent has been in my Reader since day one. She is quite a gal to say the least. And she made my day today when I opened up my Reader to find this style board all around the fabulous tangerine tango pantone color! Visit her site to get all the details and also visit her Etsy store to order your very own “Kiss My Grits” sign originally created by Miss Wendy! Image below credit to Wendy of A Southern Accent.

Urban Grace Interiors, as always has posted something that catches my eye and gets me dreaming about living at the beach, designing interiors of homes or like today of wearing my hair parted in the middle. Who knew? I love my side swoop. But this picture by Kelly Stewart Erika posted on her blog made me dream of parting my hair right down the middle of my head… and owning that dress this beautiful mom is wearing! Image below via (and linked to) Urban Grace Interiors by Kelly Stewart).

I love reading Megan’s honest words on motherhood that shares on Tales of the Trees.

Thanks to Vera’s Fashion Hauls like this one here on her finds from Banana Republic recently, I want to drive two hours to the closest Banana Republic. She landed some really cute things and they are all things I would wear! I love fashion and fashion trends but the beautiful trendy items cut low and skinny don’t really fit into my reality.

I’m sure it’s no surprise to you that I’ve found something else on Little Green Notebook that I like. This cabinet is very cool. Yes, I said “cool!” It’s old. I think the mirrors on the doors is funky and also functional. I love the green accents. And I like that it’s a piece that would look in different types of homes. I can see it my house in a guest room or nursery. I can also see it my drummer brother’s house. Image below via Little Green Notebook.

Last but not least, Jenn from Hostess with the Mostess has impressed me (as she always does)! I literally gasped when this Stork Express Airlines shower popped up in my Reader. Every single detail is DARLING! Image via hostess blog.

There are many days I find my Reader overwhelming and not fun to look at but other days I enjoy it so very much that I just have to share what I found! I say this often but it’s true… the blogging community is a powerful place full of talented people and I’m so glad to be a part of it. Being surrounded by strong, determined, smart and creative people day in and day out is something people dream of. We, as bloggers, live that dream. How great is that?

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