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A Date Night In – *Confetti Date Giveaway*

September 24, 2013 by Amy, Using Our Words 7 Comments

**UPDATE: This giveaway is now closed. Thank you for your interest, and date on!** Date nights? Of course we have date nights. There’s always Pizza & Wine Friday. You know, unless we have other Friday night plans. (Like we have for the past month and a half straight.) And every now and then we watch […]

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Won’t Back Down, A Mantra for Moms

September 13, 2012 by Amy, Using Our Words 4 Comments

It’s week two of school for Big. Which means I’ve been asked for money. A lot of it.  I’ve been asked for time. A lot of it. And I’ve been asked for supplies. A fair amount of them. Yes, he goes to a public school—a phenomenal one—but that’s because we live in a community where […]

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Brave: Big Screen, Little Screen, Big Hit

June 20, 2012 by Amy, Using Our Words 2 Comments

Bears. Lemonade-up-the-nose laughter. And a mom who was wrong all along. If you ask Big, those were three of the things that stuck with him after our fun date night in San Francisco for the screening of the Disney Pixar film, Brave (in theaters tomorrow, June 22nd). The funny thing is, I kind of agree.

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