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to see my name among the list Aleida had for blogs that make her day. 
So now it is my turn to pass this along to the blogs that make my day! 
There are a lot of fun blogs out there to read and there are days where I've lost track of time after searching through blogland.
 here are the rules:
the rules for the *you make my day award* are to re-present it to 10 people whose blogs bring...

We did Easter a little bit different this year.  We added the February and March birthday celebration to the day.  Since February & March seemed to be such a busy month we were running out of days.
We still did the usual clues for the kids to work together and find everyone's baskets.  They always have fun doing this and are real good sports about it.  Each kid reads a clue and they all go...

I did some serious cleaning today.  Like the wash the walls and the floor and everything in between cleaning.  I still have more to do tomorrow but a good portion of it has been completed.
I also visited Petitti Garden Center to pick up some of these plants for all the moms that come over tomorrow. They smell amazing!

We also stuffed all the eggs for the Easter Egg hunt we will have here...

 

After doing my usual blog surfing this morning I found this on Dedra's blog.  I found her blog after seeing her awesome scraproom.  You should check it out here
A once in a lifetime experience!
Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify pass over,...

Aimeslee and Ali I placed an order at Amazon for a bunch of books!  Not the kindle - though with all the books I buy, I might one day afford one of these???
I'm looking forward to their arrival as now I'm reading 3 books and enjoying them all.
Most nights I go to bed with Valerie Bertenelli's book.  I feel like I grew up with her so as I read it takes me back to my own childhood when Van Halen...

come up with some Easter egg hunt clues figure out my uppercase living order clean up the house hard boil some eggs work on kit stuff trying not to panic about upcoming graduation events (it's coming quicker than I thought!) figure out what is unclaimed???
enjoy the little things read relax

Chelsea was telling me about a device that they are talking about for college. For reading books  At first I kind of blew it off but tonight I was browsing over at Amazon and seen the video on this thing. This looks like a pretty cool reading device - The amazon kindle?
Now Joel was with me on how cool it was until we got to the price... then he left the room????????????
Yesterday I got my kit...

I was recently talking with some friends about books. I've always loved reading but my habit of reading at night came after we lost Ryan.  It was the only way I could distract myself until I was completely exhausted and could fall asleep.  The same has remained true after losing my father and my brother.
I'm glad I began this habit because sometimes I wonder where I would even fit reading into...