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My Favorite Things

I love these- My Favorite Things!: ♥ Cinnamon tea ♥ Warm summer days ♥ The beach ♥ Sweet fruit ♥ Masculine, brave men with big muscles (like my hubby!) ♥ Great movies (like Braveheart and Facing the Giants) ♥ Jane Austen novels and Marilyn Monroe movies (I love “Some Like It Hot”!) ♥ Gold bracelets […]

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  • Tracy

    A lovely list, Penelope! Hope you have a wonderful day. 🙂

  • Penelope

    Thanks, Tracy, I hope the same for you.

  • Nancy

    You’ve inspired me to come up with my own list. I can review it when I need a pick me up.

  • Heather

    I love lots of these things too! Cinammon tea and good books and pink cashmere 🙂

  • Michelle

    Nice list. some of my faves are pillows, magazines, swing sets, food that is stuffed (stuffed peppers, stuffed shells, stuffed artichokes, stuffed mushrooms etc.), and anything green

  • Penelope

    Ooh, Michelle, stuffed items are terrific!!

Safety For Women

This was emailed to me by a friend to be passed on to other women (I am posting it here, because it contains terrific information): Because of recent abductions in daylight hours, refresh yourself of these things to do in an emergency situation… This is for you, and for you to share with your wife, […]

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  • Tracy

    Good reminders. You can’t be too safe nowadays…thanks for sharing! 🙂

  • Penelope

    Tracy, some of these ideas were new to me, so I felt maybe they were new to others. The baby tape is scary!

Dr Laura Letter (Pretty Wise!)

I’ve been a big fan of Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s dating and marriage advice (and agree with about 90% of what she says), and I recently read a great letter from a young lady that shows that half the work involved in a great marriage is picking a good person to marry right from the start. […]

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  • Nancy

    She is right…don’t seek advice from those who don’t live in a way you wouldn’t want to live. If you want a happy marriage, emulate those who have a marriage you would want (and go to them for advice if you need it)

My Valentine

For Valentine’s Day my wonderful husband took us out for a romantic day in Manhattan. He had a driver pick us up, with pink champagne and roses waiting inside for me, and brought us to Rockefeller Center to skate around on my brand new, pretty ice skates (a little girl exclaimed “I love your ice […]

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  • Tracy

    How wonderful, Penelope! I'm so glad your Valentine's Day was memorable & romantic. 🙂

Ideas For Left-Over Chicken

Lately I’ve been trying to be more frugal (one of the talents a stay at home wife may find useful to cultivate- I’m working on it!). I usually make whole chicken breasts for dinner, served with salad or rice and veggies on the side. I discovered that if I cook less chicken, and simply break […]

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  • Elizabeth

    I like variety, too. Great ideas for chicken.

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