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Wishing is BIG business at our house.  I realized this yesterday when my daughter made it her mission to turn my frown upside down.  She came in with her bag of wishing tricks and a fairy wand determined that she was going to wish away my day of doldrums. "All you need, Mama is Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust!" she exclaimed while laying out her wishing implements. (no kidding...She calls herself the Wish Fairy...) Here are her assorted tools of the trade...    Mystical Wishing Tools While she was working her magical mojo on me, I pondered all of the ways we get our wishing on at our house.  Turns out, we do a lot of wishing around here! We wish on stars and birthday candles.  We toss coins in fountains at the mall to make wishes  (You're welcome, malls all over America for my enormous financial contributions over the years...)  We send our well wishes out in cards to celebrate special occasions like holidays and birthdays. We blow ...

Welcome to another fine edition of Dear So and So... brought to you by the lovely Kat over at 3 Bedroom Bungalow! And off we go! Dear Teen Caveboy, Let's review the "quality of childcare assessment"  your darling little sister handed to me yesterday detailing the incidents that occurred while in your care...(her words are in bold.)... Bad (apparently there was a doll~napping for ransom...) Not Good   (hint...knocking on her door and running away is just goofy...especially after the 400th time...) Very Bad (for bothering her while she was enjoying some Polly Pocket cruise time and a movie...) Annoying (I know...it's just who you are...) Sometimes Funny   (well now...here's a spot of sunshine...) Here are some helpful hints for today's adventure in sister~sitting.... *There will be no doll~napping...(unless of course, she actually pays the ransom, then I'll take a 50% cut...) *Keep in mind that there will come a day when she will spy on you and ...

(taps microphone...)  Is this thing on? Well, it appears that I have found my way back to the Land of Blog.  Whew!  I thought I'd never get back here! Lots of activity around the Smith house over the last month! Some cute little 6 year old girl turned 7  last week!   We had fabulous Powerpuff Girls themed party!   ( By the way...this is for the Boomerang network on tv...uh, yeah...thanks for bringing back the Powerpuff Girls...do you know how hard it is to find PPG themed party stuff, Boomerang???) I spent over a month trying to win various ebay auctions for party supplies just to have some stupid person snipe my bid in the last 5 seconds of the auctions!  I finally managed to outsmart the snipers and pulled together a pretty fantastic party.  We had a "City of Townsville Carnival" complete with villains trying to wreck the fun.  The Powerpuff Girls came to the rescue and the carnival was saved!  Buh-bye, Mojo-Jojo!  NO...

It's Tuesday! At the Bee and Rose that means it's time for "Did You Know?"...bits of this and that from my cluttered mind. (cluttered...not dirty...sorry, Chilly...) And we're off...(it's short and sweet today!) Did You Know... that the ever fabulous DiPaola Momma over at Chicken Nuggets of Wisdom has the chance to get her lovely face on a box of Honeynut Cheerios?? Isn't that cool?! She has a fantastic opportunity to help fight hunger in our communities through an awesome campaign via ShopRite. ShopRite has created “Blog It Forward To Fight Hunger” to get people involved in the fight against hunger through blogging. All she needs is a bit of comment lovin'! How easy is that?! Go HERE for more exciting details! Did You Know. ... that by visiting this awesome blogger... you can help a family in need today? Just click on the picture and it will take you right over. I will be over there today bidding on items in a wonderful auction that Shann...

What a weekend! Four medals out of 5 competitions! She freakin' rocks my poodle socks off! (FYI..poodle socks are what the Irish dancers wear...) She won first place for this dance! (sorry for the poor video quality...I had to sneak it...didn't have time to prep the camera for lighting and people kept bumping into me..yada yada yada...) I am one VERY proud Mama! (Join the weekend Wordle fun over at Last Shreds of Sanity ! Wordles are the bomb!)