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Believe in the Elf!

This year is the Fish household we are embracing the spirit of believing.  My girls are 10 and 14 (almost) and they have grown out of believing in Santa but still love the holiday spirit and magic of the season.  We’re not a religious family so I try to focus on believing – believing that […]

Planning for the Tooth Fairy

Hi everyone!  It’s Dana here 🙂  Have you all recovered from the exciting and fun DSD activities?  I think it’s going to take me a while to get my hard drive recovered – it’s overflowing at the moment 🙂 As many of you know – I have two daughters and my oldest has just recently […]

Vulnerable

  Hi Sweet Shoppers! Lex here, and in the spirit of keeping things real, I wanted to write about what this week has been for me. Some time ago I had felt a large mass on my left breast. It was frighteningly large, and my OB-GYNE, after instructing me to get a breast ultrasound, asked […]

Remembering September 11, 2001

Hello Sweet Shoppe dwellers. Yari here today to bring you a special blog post honoring September 11, 2001 and all that happened on that day. I am not going to lie, this was rather difficult for me to do. Tears filled my eyes and my heart was taken away in emotion several times as I […]

Walking For A Good Cause

Hey Sweet Shoppers! Today I want to tell you a little bit about something that is near and dear to my heart. Neurofibromatosis (NF) is a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow along various types of nerves. It can also affect other tissues such as bones and skin. Neurofibromatosis causes tumors to grow anywhere on […]

What a Difference a Year Makes

One year ago today, I was sitting in a hospital room waiting to go home with my baby after giving birth two days earlier. And, then the day took a turn for the worse. I had delivered four weeks early because I had developed severe preeclampsia. And, my blood pressure wasn’t returning to safe levels. […]

Our Summer

Hi There Sweet Shoppers! The month of August is here and has seemed to have just swept in so quickly, at least for me. As I see everyone around us getting their kids ready for school, I realize that will be us next year. I am in no rush though! It is a year away […]

8.9-So Summer is almost over what a mixed blessing!

So, here I sit-one week and one day away from the end of my Summer vacation-I’m not sure if I’m supposed to be happy or sad-because my emotions run both sides at any given moment. I have had an unusually long Summer-I was out an entire 10 days before Landen was out of school so […]

A Little Getaway

Hello friends!! Happy Tuesday!! To be honest with you, I am having a really hard time getting back into the swing of things this week!! This past weekend, my husband and I were lucky enough to have a couple of days away. We have been wanting to go to a Sporting Kansas City game all […]

Knights & Dragons Birthday Party

My son is a huge fan of knights. He has been completely enthralled with them ever since we took him to the Renaissance Festival that came to town a few years ago. I was beyond thrilled when Misty Cato released a new prince and princess kit back in June. Especially since I was in the […]

Summer Staycation

Hey Sweeties!! Meg here with today’s summertime staycation ideas post. If you are anything like me then you really enjoy a great vacation. I love to plan plan plan vacations to a T although I do leave a little free time to have a few spontaneous moments! This summer, since we took a long vacation […]

My Pretty Ballerinas

Hi everyone!  It’s Dana and I thought I would spend a few seconds bragging about my girlies today 🙂  I was trying to think of something else to write about – but after several days of trying to come up with a good idea, I realized that all my time lately has been spent doing […]

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