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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 05/18/2012
• 14:10

  What I Wore This Week

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Old Navy yellow eyelet skirt (last summer), Target shoes (from the little girls sections, last summer), navy t shirt from Target, yellow necklace from Target. I think I saved the Old Navy boat neck shirt! It was just too long and tunicy to wear with a skirt.  But these white shorts worked with it because [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 05/11/2012
• 12:54

  I Wear Navy on the Outside When I Feel Navy on the Inside

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I took about six thousand pictures of this outfit before I decided that this t shirt was just unflattering and I should get rid of it.  I will learn an “$8 I don’t wear an XL t shirt at Old Navy” lesson and move on.  Also, I always buy boat neck shirts and then I [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 05/09/2012
• 15:32

  A Note From the Shameless Commerce Division

   »  Princess Nebraska
  So I finally girded up my loins and cleaned out the FOUR (four!) tubs of too small clothing that I’ve been hauling around with me for the last several years just in case I accidentally got a tape worm and lost sixty pounds.  I saved some of it that I just can’t bear to get [...]
  
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• 11:30

  House Tour: Backyard

   »  Princess Nebraska
  This is one of those depressing updates where the “After” actually looks worse than the Before, at least the two years of before, because you will recall that our yard was redone by the tv show Turf Wars and when it was finished it looked really really really good.  Better than it does now.  But [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 05/07/2012
• 12:54

  Proud

   »  Princess Nebraska
  When Leslie took our Christmas card picture this year and the year before, I decided that two times in a row meant: annual tradition and that we’d have a Christmas picture taken every year.  So in January when I wrote out my New Year’s resolutions, I had that picture in the back of my mind, [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 05/03/2012
• 12:05

  Books I Read in April

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Man, I would poke a baby in the eye for a good book.  The stack on my bedside table seemed so hopeful a few weeks ago, but good lord.  Stinkers, all of them! Well, almost all.  Also I kept getting bogged down by boring books that would put me to sleep almost instantly, so I [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 04/29/2012
• 21:05

  It Took Four Double Big Gulps to Get This Done

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Remember when I said that this was the year that we were going to desuckify our backyard?  The process has begun. Because we can’t really afford to desuckify all at one time, and because I had looooong lists of all the different projects I wanted to get working on in the backyard, and because somehow [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 04/26/2012
• 14:31

  Last Friday Night

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I grew up in Portland, Oregon, but not the cool part.  I grew up in the lame subdivision part, and I can still remember sitting on my bed next to my open window, watching the street on our culdesac, and it felt like I could sit there for hours, sitting in that window, staring at [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 04/13/2012
• 14:43

  So I’m Basically A Fashion Blogger Now

   »  Princess Nebraska
  So I am working hard on dressing less like a giant slob and I think it’s going well. Does anyone want pointers?  Probably not, but too bad, I am going to give them to you anyway.  1. I got rid of stuff.  I am still working on this, and probably will be for awhile, but [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 04/10/2012
• 15:22

  Missing

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Some days, I think of only having two children, these two specific children, and my breath catches with just how wrong it seems.  And I think with absolute certainty that there must be three. I know that having three is the absolute number one most important right thing.  But some days I become almost obsessed [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 04/08/2012
• 21:39

  Books I Read In March

   »  Princess Nebraska
  30. Wintertown.  Oh. Hmmmm. Well.  This is one of those books that I wish had been better, and I didn’t LOVE it, but at the same time, it did SOMETHING, if that makes sense. It was more than just some dumb bland churned out storyline.  And the graphic novel tie in was so weird and [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/26/2012
• 18:50

  What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Stronger

   »  Princess Nebraska
  So let me just be honest with you here for a moment, internet, if I may. I believe it’s traditional around these mommy blogger parts to copy Dooce as often as possible.  We’ve all written the letters to our kids on their birthdays, right?  But this year when Eli turned 5, you may have noticed, [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/22/2012
• 14:58

  Ten Things, Just Because

   »  Princess Nebraska
  1. I think pregnancy and Eli’s weight dramatics have given me permanent anxiety about going to the doctor. Seriously, I could not hate it more.  This amount of anxiety over something so stupid is ridiculous! It makes me wonder if my “be less anxious” medicine is actually working. 2. So far the “uniform” is working [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/21/2012
• 12:55

  One Life

   »  Princess Nebraska
  (I am republishing this post I wrote last year because today is World Down Syndrome Day so I thought it was fitting.) I recently read a series in the New York Times all about having a baby with Down syndrome.  They were really hard for me to read.  Especially the piece written by the couple [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/19/2012
• 14:49

  I Made This: Zig Zag Baby Quilt

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I should probably warn you that I am kind of ridiculously proud of this project.  Just so you know. Mainly I’m proud that I actually pulled this off, because this was the sort of project where it was all fun and games and pinning pictures of cute quilts and thinking “I like this one!”, until [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/16/2012
• 21:04

  KWE/JCR

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Is anyone else here seeing what I’m seeing? I mean seriously. Exhibit A: Exhibit B: I rest my case.  
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/15/2012
• 13:14

  More Uniformity

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Maybe calling it a uniform is somewhat deceptive?  Although keep in mind I spent 12 years in Catholic school. Uniforms don’t scare me. I have no desire to spend every day in khaki pants and a navy blue polo shirt, day in and day out, but my current system consists of 1. buying random t [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/14/2012
• 13:31

  Meal Plans for The Next Two Weeks

   »  Princess Nebraska
  It’s my goal to stay out of the grocery store until Saturday the 23rd so I can save money for the uniform. My other goal is to use something from the fall/winter garden in every meal because it’s going to town and we’re having trouble keeping up.  (BTW, if you live somewhere that this sort [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/08/2012
• 19:17

  What Kind of Car Is This?I

   »  Princess Nebraska
  ETA: I bought a car! It is a very lovely Ford Escape, and all the doors open when you hit a clicky button! How exciting. Let’s not even talk about the Jetta, and the fact that after it finally returned home last night, it wouldn’t freaking start this morning. Apparently, God doesn’t want me to [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/07/2012
• 15:03

  Uniform

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I am trying to keep up a certain basic level of sanity over here folks, but our (only) car has been in the shop since last Friday and I think today might be the day I start to get a little stabby with certain people involved in the situation, none of whom have been trapped [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/05/2012
• 14:29

  Big Fake Nails

   »  Princess Nebraska
  This has happened before.  (I get so far down the path, the wrong path, I just don’t realize it.) I think of my wedding.  The small DIY get married on the prairie some random afternoon if we feel like it wedding that it was supposed to be, homemade and handmade and full of people that [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/02/2012
• 08:02

  Backyard Furniture on a Budget

   »  Princess Nebraska
  It’s a little distressing when you realize after essentially furnishing an entire house that you’re not done and you actually need to furnish an entire outdoor space as well.  Super annoying. Anyway, this is the year that I am determined that I will maintain my sanity while trapped in my house by creating a backyard [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 03/01/2012
• 10:58

  The One Who Stays

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I’ve been thinking about this since last Tuesday night, when I started packing for my trip to Vermont. Because I had to pack for myself and Eli and because I was also taking care of two kids and I was sort of pressed for time, I decided to quit doing all the stuff I normally [...]
  
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• 09:58

  Meal Plan for the Week

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I suppose I am going to have to go to the grocery store.  This can only be accomplished with two children by extreme ignorance.  You have to wait just long enough from the last time you did it so that you can’t remember how absolutely terrible it was.  That time period is about six weeks, [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 02/29/2012
• 14:49

  Books I Read In February

   »  Princess Nebraska
  16. Sex on the Moon.  This book has been on the best seller list forever, and although I normally don’t like non fiction all that much, I figured eh, why not? It can’t hurt, right?  And actually, I didn’t dislike this book because it was boring (my usual issue with non fiction) but because it [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 02/21/2012
• 12:57

  Someone Turned Five

   »  Princess Nebraska
  And that someone was Eli. Anyway, he has been obsessed with dinosaurs for YEARS, so we threw him a dinosaur birthday party. (Interesting note – from the time he was 6 months old until the time he was 3 ish, Pants could not have cared less about dinosaurs. We had some plastic dinosaurs that were [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 02/17/2012
• 15:22

  I Am Resisting the Urge To Tell Everyone I Signed Her Up For Baby Fight Club

   »  Princess Nebraska
  So I really need to tell you all about Eli’s 5th birthday party, complete with requisite rant about the lack of orange paper plates for sale in our local Target, and I have lots of books I’ve liked a lot lately that I want to write all about and a few excellent recipes that I’ve [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 02/06/2012
• 16:11

  House Tour: Bedroom

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I think my bedroom is my favorite room in my whole house. All the other bedrooms we’ve ever had were fairly terrible.  We pretty much would just throw whatever left over furniture we’d had lying around in there and call it good.  I guess because I felt like it mattered less, since no one else [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 02/02/2012
• 15:00

  Books I Read In January

   »  Princess Nebraska
  1. Imaginary Girls.  Huh.  I read this because I saw it recommended on some YAF blog somewhere, and I have to say I thought it was one of the worst things I’ve read in a long time.  The main character was unfathomably awful, and I think it was supposed to have this weird fantasy ghost [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 01/30/2012
• 13:17

  The Room is Winning

   »  Princess Nebraska
  When we first looked at our house, I can remember thinking “Interesting. Well this living room is going to be a little hard to decorate, but we’ll figure it out.”  And then I thought no more about it. Oh, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. This room is totally winning, you guys, and [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 01/29/2012
• 21:11

  Tomato Tomahto

   »  Princess Nebraska
  One of the best things that happens in January is that I get to pick out the seeds for next year’s garden. I order my seeds from the Fedco catalog, because they’re not genetically modified or irradiated. I am far from a total crazy hippie, but I think a company irradiating seeds so you can’t [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 01/24/2012
• 14:05

  More Money More Problems

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I put this question on Twitter, but it’s sort of too complicated for Twitter so I thought I’d ask it here. Ok, so Mr. E and I have this credit card.  It is essentially maxed out, I think at any given time it has about $600 ish dollars clearance on it.  So let’s say the [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 01/18/2012
• 11:53

  Book Review: The Fault In Our Stars

   »  Princess Nebraska
   So The Fault In Our Stars is the newest book by John Green, who is super famous on the internet for various reasons and a big deal in YA circles.    He wrote Looking for Alaska, which won the Printz award that year.  I was dubious about The Fault In Our Stars simply because Looking [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 01/15/2012
• 10:39

  What’s For Dinner (This Week)

   »  Princess Nebraska
  1. turkey kefta and grilled minted zucchini 2. greek chicken pitas 3. thai green curry coconut shrimp (with brown rice) 4. spinach stuffed shells (also making for the neighbors who just had a baby). 5. chicken breasts, roasted sunchokes, spinach salad (from my garden, woo hoo!) 6. corn and bacon chowder 7. onion pizza with ricotta [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 01/12/2012
• 15:08

  The Story of Us

   »  Princess Nebraska
  When I was 10 years old, my parents got divorced.  For a long time, they lived in the same city, Portland, OR, where I grew up, and I’d spend one week with my dad and one week with my mom.  One week off and one week on, as they say. The summer after my freshman [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 01/10/2012
• 15:50

  The Four Tubs

   »  Princess Nebraska
  So my mother was just here.  It was actually a really nice visit.  I think everyone had a very nice time. Pretty much the only thing she did that annoyed me was to accuse me of being a picky eater over and over and over again, and it just annoyed the ever living crap out [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 01/09/2012
• 01:03

  Books I Read In December

   »  Princess Nebraska
  162.  The Night Circus.  I wanted to like this, I really did, but OH MY LORD did it take me forever to read. It just wasn’t one of those  books that drew me back to it, and I kept having to make myself read it. I’d say it was just too weird for me, but [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 01/06/2012
• 14:41

  My Reasons

   »  Princess Nebraska
  It makes absolutely no sense for us to have another baby. (Not pregnant!) We have a two bedroom house. We  don’t have a big enough car.  I’m older and fatter.  I’d have to go off my crazy pills because you can’t take P@xil while you’re pregnant, and I still have PTSD from the morning sickness [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 01/05/2012
• 12:51

  I Never Thought I’d See the Day When Too Many Shoes Would Be A Problem

   »  Princess Nebraska
  So my mom and my step father were in town for five days, and I have learned the hard way never to blog when family is visiting, so that’s where I was.  In other news, my mom threatened to call CPS on me, due to the state of my car, at least 14 times.  On [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/29/2011
• 10:58

  We Don’t Take Turns

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I’m sure you all you parents out there in blog land know the drill by now – you produce a few wee ones and the glorious glorious days of sleeping until 11 AM come to an abrupt and screeching halt.  As fun as it is to stagger out of bed before first light and immediately [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/27/2011
• 15:02

  2012 Resolutions

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I get the vibe that people aren’t that fond of New Year’s Resolutions? Whatever, I love them, and we all know it’s my vote that counts, so here are mine: 1. Get Eli into Kindergarten.  This is more complicated than one might imagine, but whatever, let’s do this thing. 2. Fix the backyard so it [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/22/2011
• 13:49

  Christmas Decor 2011

   »  Princess Nebraska
  It’s taken me until just about now to be satisfied with the amount of Christmas decorations that we have up in the house, and I’d say I’ve been buying and making them for about ten years.  Every year I buy one expensiveish thing to supplement all the handmade stuff, although I don’t know if I [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/21/2011
• 12:29

  House To Do 2012

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Every year I like to type this list up. I don’t know that I’ve ever finished it, but it’s good to get it all out there. A girl can dream, right? Also, those links are the only previous year I can find, even though I know I’ve done this a million times. Whatever. Here’s our [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/20/2011
• 17:09

  Not In My Backyard

   »  Princess Nebraska
  So today is really actually a pretty nice day.  Aside from the fact that this December could not have been less Christmassy, the weather has been basically awesome and has reminded me why I can never leave California and why we live here.  I do love sunshine. Normally it starts raining in November and it [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/19/2011
• 13:43

  Advent Days: I Forget

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Somewhere in there we went to see Santa.  Katie was not a fan, although Eli was fine with it. I think it’s especially awesome that now if you ask Katie if she likes Santa or wants to see Santa, she looks right at you, shakes her head violently, and says “NOOOOOO. Santa NOOOOOO.” I also [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/15/2011
• 17:00

  The Best Books I Read This Year

   »  Princess Nebraska
  (Some of these books were published prior to 2011, but I read them this year.) 1. The Lonely Polygamist 2. One Day 3. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 4. Crossing the Tracks 5. Daughter of Smoke and Bone 6. State of Wonder 7. Where She Went 8. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake 9. Ok for [...]
  
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• 11:56

  Stockings

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Swistle’s post on stockings was going to result in the leaving an eight paragraph comment, so I thought I’d just pontificate about stockings over here. So the evolution of our Christmas is that I went from wrapping up EVERY SINGLE THING I COULD FIND and putting it under the Christmas tree to be opened on [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/14/2011
• 12:21

  Advent Day 12, 13, and 14

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Advent Day 12 was “Decorate Christmas Cookies.” We decorated gingerbread cookies and sugar cookies. I made the gingerbread men the night before, from this recipe.  Normally I am not a huge gingerbread person, but once a year I get this CRAVING and I must have a soft spicy made from scratch gingerbread man, and that [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/12/2011
• 13:05

  Advent Day Eight, Nine, and Ten: The Lull

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Dear Christmas:  You Can Suck It.  Love, Elizabeth I believe we have officially entered what shall heretofore be referred to as the Dreaded Christmas Lull.  Or just the Lull for short. I’m not sure how to explain this Lull, exactly. It will probably take all of my most fancy tricky writing.  Luckily fancy tricky writing [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/08/2011
• 21:07

  Christmas Menus

   »  Princess Nebraska
  A’Dell beat me to it, dammit! Santa Picnic: We’re going to see Santa this Saturday, and I think since it’s at 11 and it’s outside, we’ll have a little picnic, which will consist of whatever looks delicious in the refrigerator case on Saturday morning at Trader Joe’s. Cookies: Last year we did No Knead Bread [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/07/2011
• 17:17

  Advent Day Six and Seven, Otherwise Known As How Mr. E Tried to Ruin Christmas

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Advent Day Six was “Watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”  The deal was that the three of us would watch How the Grinch Stole Christmas after dinner was over and Katie was in bed.  I made a delicious dinner of chili and cornbread and salad (that I grew myself!).  I semi successfully tried not to [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/05/2011
• 22:50

  Advent Day Five: Leave Your Shoes Out for St. Nicholas

   »  Princess Nebraska
  When I was a little girl, I was always SO jealous of other people who did the St. Nicholas shoes thing.  I would NEVER remember to do this without the advent calendar, so it’s paying off already, because I LOVE this tradition. It’s a little introduction to Christmas and where the idea of Santa Claus [...]
  
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• 11:58

  Advent Day Three and Four: Get and Decorate the Christmas Tree

   »  Princess Nebraska
  First of all you should know that the fetching of the Christmas tree is a total and complete emotional minefield for me.  When I was growing up in Oregon, we always cut down our Christmas tree, mostly from Christmas tree farms but one time from an old lady’s front yard, after my mom marched up [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/04/2011
• 10:43

  Books I Read In October and November

   »  Princess Nebraska
  144.  Daughter of Smoke and Bone.  I enjoyed it. 145. Divergent.  You know, I was prepared to hate this book, because I am SO VERY TIRED of crappy dystopian young adult fiction, especially ones where the clueless narrator just can’t figure out that making everyone eat the same lunch meat every day is a VERY [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/02/2011
• 13:03

  Advent Day Two: Write a Letter to Santa

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Yes, we “do Santa” at our house.  Mainly because the idea of not doing Santa sounds really tiring.  There seems to be a lot of explaining involved in not doing Santa.  And also honestly it just never really occurred to me. I have great respect for people who have thought this thing out enough to have a [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 12/01/2011
• 21:09

  Advent Day One: Plant an Amaryllis Bulb

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Here’s the advent calendar all ready to go.  (True story:  When I think about how much work this was, I feel sort of ill.) I hung it on the inside of the front door so I can save it in a fire. Kidding. Sort of. Anyway. I wrote out the activities two nights ago while [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 11/30/2011
• 17:18

  The Blathering 2012: New Orleans!

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Just in case you’re not on Twitter, registration for the Blathering 2012 (aka the best weekend of the whole year) opened today.  Hope to see you there, and by the way I’m totally ready to eat 10,000 beignets.      
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 11/25/2011
• 18:10

  Booty Call

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Ok, people, I need your help. For Christmas, from Mr. E, I am asking for a pair of boots. A MYTHICAL pair of boots, it would appear, although you’d think it wouldn’t be that hard.  So here’s what I want: Real leather, brown, and easy on and easy off, so I can just throw them [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 11/22/2011
• 14:19

  What’s Wrong With Me?

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Let’s talk about anxiety and depression, because nothing says Happy Thanksgiving! like a big old chat about mental health, am I right? So, essentially all my life I have been a little high strung.  A little shy.  A little bit of the type of person who has a hard time with change and new things. [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 11/21/2011
• 16:55

  Candle Time

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Let me tell you about Candle Time! Candletime is a made up thing that I first read about over on Ask Moxie…you are all reading Moxie, right? I shudder to imagine a world in which I am forced to raise children without Ask Moxie in my bookmarks and Arwen available via email. Anyway, the gist [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 11/18/2011
• 16:50

  Thanksgiving Table Settings

   »  Princess Nebraska
  So far this year I’m way more excited about the Thanksgiving place settings than am I am about the food. I do love a good over the top Thanksgiving table setting. The table  cloth here is my canvas painter’s tarp.  I don’t know.  It’s huge so it’s nice and drapey and romantic.  Kind of reminds [...]
  
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• 07:46

  Thanksgiving in Menus

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  The other day Sarah was talking about how much she loves reading Thanksgiving and Christmas menus, and I must admit this is also one of my guilty pleasures.  One of my favorite things about my copy of Edna Lewis’s Taste of Country Cooking are the menus, just the other night I was reading them out [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 11/17/2011
• 12:31

  Ten Things I Love About You

   »  Princess Nebraska
  1. The way you walk in a room, throw open your arms, and scream “OOOOOOOH!” every single time you put on a new piece of clothing. 2. The way you look all over the house, desperate to find me, calling “Mama? Mama? MAMA?” and toddling as fast as you can. 3. The hair.  DUDE.  That [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 11/16/2011
• 08:42

  Our Advent Calendar Activities

   »  Princess Nebraska
  (You’ll see these again starting December 1st. Look out.) Also, there’s tons of ideas for easy and cheap advent calendars on Pinterest, even just using envelopes.  Or there’s this one at Land of Nod which is super cute for a mere $35, shipped.  Which is a really good price for a reusable fabric Advent Calendar. [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 11/15/2011
• 15:06

  Christmas Plan, Year Two

   »  Princess Nebraska
  First of all, I was checking my archives to see when I first started getting crabby about Christmas last year, and HOLY DOG YOU GUYS.  Get that woman some anti depressants.  Jesus.  I was basically curled up in the corner at the mere mention of the holidays.  Anyway. This year I am actually sort of, [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 11/10/2011
• 11:32

  Rotten

   »  Princess Nebraska
  So in this blog post I talk about sexual assault and I do swear more than I normally do.  Fair warning if that is not for you.  When we lived in Nebraska, many moons ago, one day as I was walking to work, a young kid, maybe in his twenties? Ran up to me, slammed [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 11/01/2011
• 09:33

  The Official 2011 Style Lush Holiday Gift Guide: 100 Gifts for $25 or Less!

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Somewhere back in my comments from four (or is it five!!!) years ago you can see the start of two things…one of my most valued friendships, and my 100 Things under $25 Gift Guide. I can’t even really remember how it happened but I do know that one day we didn’t really know each other [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 10/31/2011
• 17:10

  If Only

   »  Princess Nebraska
  Do your kids have “if only” names? I love my kids names, but they do, in fact, have “if only” names. If only Mr. E hadn’t said “OH HELL NO”. If only it worked with our last name. If only someone else in our family hadn’t used it already. If only Mr. E didn’t say [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 10/28/2011
• 14:03

  Fall Garden Update

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I think I am even more excited this year about my fall/winter garden than I was about my tomatoes this summer.  If you want a tomato in Sacramento in the summer you can roll out of bed and find yourself at a farmer’s market just about any day of the week, but fresh lettuce in [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 10/27/2011
• 17:18

  Tiny Prints: Holiday Cards

   »  Princess Nebraska
  This is a sponsored post, Tiny Prints is giving me 50 free holiday cards to write about, well, uh, holiday cards.  So you know how when you get married everyone says “No one will remember your invitations, it doesn’t matter, people just throw them out.” Well, I think it has been well established that I [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 10/26/2011
• 10:54

  Book Review: Daughter of Smoke and Bone

   »  Princess Nebraska
  I think 2011 (are we in 2011? Sometimes I forget what year it is when my children wake me up at FIVE AM KILL ME NOW.), anyway, 2011 or whenever the blazes year it is now will go down as the year that I grew disillusioned with young adult fiction because so much of it [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 10/24/2011
• 11:59

  Blathering 2011: In Which I Use the Word Amazing One Billion Times

   »  Princess Nebraska
  The year we first had the Blathering, and I got to know the 17 amazing women that showed up in my backyard, I was just happy that no one killed me and ate me, and that everyone got along so well and I don’t think I quite realized what an amazing thing we had cooked [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 10/17/2011
• 16:14

  Thirteen Things…

   »  Princess Nebraska
  You Should Maybe Know (About Me and Other Things) Before You Spend the Entire Weekend at the Blathering. 1.  I never turn down a tequila shot. 2.  I sometimes get shy in large groups. 3. I giggle a lot. 4. I have charts and spreadsheets and printouts and inspiration pictures for the Blathering Decor but I [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 10/13/2011
• 15:09

  Books I Read On My Kindle In August, September, and Part of October

   »  Princess Nebraska
  136.  Q A Timeless Love Story.  I liked the writing and the storyline but the plot device (he lives his life over and over again, trying to fix it each time, by going back in time) got away from itself. 137.  Also Known As Rowan Pohi.  Not terrible, not great. It felt really really short? [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 10/12/2011
• 19:27

  Books I Read In August, September, and Part of October

   »  Princess Nebraska
  122.  Sisterhood Everlasting.  I have always loved these books, because they’re chick lit, obvs, but they also fall on just this side of a little weird.  And I think they’re well written for fluff.  Anyway, right off the bat something happened in this book that I thought was pretty uncool, actually, and that basically ruined [...]
  
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• 13:48

  House Tour: The Living Room (In Progress)

   »  Princess Nebraska
  This is the room that has been giving me fits since we first moved in, because it’s so long and skinny.  Windows have been taken out and put back in, often in funny places, and because of that or because it was built in 1933 there’s no real place to put a TV.  (I am [...]
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 09/29/2011
• 11:27

  Photo Shoot

   »  Princess Nebraska
  There’s more pictures from our photo shoot the other day up on Leslie’s blog today.  And there are chunky baby thighs involved, so I’d say it’s worth your time to check it out.  
  
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• Nebraska blogs (US-NE), 09/28/2011
• 18:16

  House Tour: Dining Room

   »  Princess Nebraska
  For some reason it seemed really important that I paint at least one room in my house a very dark color, so for a long time our dining room was this very dark brown.  It took me three years to realize that it just never felt right.  It was SO dark in the wintertime.  Yuck. [...]
  
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