Sometimes when I'm bored, I'll look up local listings on Zillow.
I live in an upper-middle-class neighborhood that has very affluent neighborhoods sprinkled throughout the city. And those more affluent neighborhoods tend to have McMansions the size of a small African country.
Occasionally, I'll walk, hike or bike near these McMansions and stare at them wistfully, wishing
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Sparkling Italian Creme Sodas with Canada Dry!
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When I was a little girl, my family would occasionally take me out to dinner at this local spaghetti restaurant. The food was your standard Ragu-type fare -- in other words, nothing remotely "Italian." But they did have the best
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Banana Pudding Cupcakes with Cool Whip Pudding Frosting
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As a kid, one of my favorite snacks was Jell-O Pudding Snacks topped with a hefty (and I mean hefty!) dollop of Cool Whip on top. The ratio was probably one cup Cool Whip to standard-size pudding cup, and frankly, I had dreams of giving
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Vanilla Chai Scones
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So some of you may not know, but I have two younger siblings: a 20 (soon-to-be-21!) year-old brother, and a 16 year-old sister. And all three of us are thankfully very close -- we'd make each other tea when someone was sick, or we would all go
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Frosting Filled Deep Dish Cake Batter Cookies {And a Surprise Bridal Shower for Sally!}
If there's one other person in this great big world who maybe loves sprinkles as much as I do, it's Sally.
And lemme tell ya -- that blonde loves her sprinkles :)
I met Sally in this gigantic, crazy blogging world I live in. Her blog was new like mine (in fact, I believe we both started our blogs a couple months apart, back in 2011) and I was instantly drawn to her
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