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Ask a Baby Blogger: Our Whole Family Isn’t Invited to the Wedding

Question: A cousin of mine is getting married in a few months and on the invitation she invited myself and my husband but not the baby. My baby will only be 4 months old when she gets married. Isn’t it rude of her not to invite the whole family? So what should I do? Do I tell her that we won’t come unless she invites the baby? (I’m not comfortable leaving the baby as I am nursing.) Or do I go anyways despite her being selective? Since this isn’t the marriage blog I won’t spend a lot of time on … Continue reading →

The Mail Order Bride

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Oddly enough, over the years – I’ve read some pretty strange stories. More often than not – the stranger the story – the more likely it is to have a kernel of truth in it. I mean, seriously – 20 years ago would you have imagined there would be a dearth of movies based on television shows from the 70s and 80s – the Dukes of Hazard was a Friday night television show along with Dallas and the Incredible Hulk – now two of those have been made into feature films and the third one is on the way. But … Continue reading →

Fitness For Brides

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In honor of the Going to the Chapel month over in the Marriage blog, I have been doing some exploring out there to find what I can find to help out brides to be meet their fitness goals in time for their wedding. One such place I found was entitled, appropriately enough, FAST Fitness for Brides. It’s an email course that is offered to help brides develop a fitness regimen to achieve their goals by the day of their wedding. Sign-up for the course is free, just enter your name and an email address. The first lesson is delivered straight … Continue reading →

After Holiday Sales at Barnes & Noble, Target, Michaels, and More!

Did Santa forget to bring you a gift that you had your heart set on this Christmas? Was your Christmas tree a few decorations shy from being as stunning as you hoped for? Did the Christmas lights burn out? If your answer to any of these questions is “yes” then it is definitely time to shop some After Christmas Sales. Here’s a few that are happening right now! Target is having a “Year End Clearance” sale. Items in this clearance will be up to 65% off. As with all clearance sales, you might find different products at individual stores. You … Continue reading →

Wedding Photos Tell Family Stories

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Wedding photos are important. People spend thousands of dollars on hiring a photographer and purchasing the photos that he or she takes of their wedding. Genealogists know that those photos are a great source of family history and family stories. In the mail today, I got something that I had been looking forward to. It was a small package of photos that I ordered from the photographer who my sister hired to take photos at her wedding. Somehow, I managed to wait until the last minute to make this purchase. I guess time got away from me. Looking over the … Continue reading →

Crazy About Cards

Forget about Halloween, or even Thanksgiving, right now, retailers are all about Christmas. My email inbox is being choked by hundreds of solicitations for holiday greeting cards. I got one note which suggested that if I didn’t select my card choice by the end of the month friends and family wouldn’t receive my greeting in time for the celebration of Jesus’ birth. Really. To be perfectly honest, I am considering not sending greeting cards this year. However, I think about how much I enjoy receiving holiday well wishes from others, and I am guilted into sending overpriced cards to everyone … Continue reading →

Where to Find Wedding Records

Genealogists are very interested in weddings. When a marriage takes place, it officially turns an unrelated group of people into a family. If you are looking for information about when a relative or ancestor got married, there are plenty of online resources for genealogists to use. I seem to have weddings on the brain this week. I suspect that this is a common experience after a person attends the wedding of a relative. Last week, I was a bridesmaid in my sister’s wedding. This means that I have been thinking about her wedding, and weddings in general, for around a … Continue reading →

Mike Tyson’s Young Daughter Near Death and Other Celebrity Bad News

Boxing superstar Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter Exodus is fighting for her life in a Phoenix hospital, and doctors say things don’t look good. According to FOX News, the little girl is on life support after getting her head caught in a cable attached to a treadmill. Reports say Tyson’s 7-year-old son found Exodus early this morning in the family’s rec room. The boy called for his mom, who then called 911 while trying to revive the young girl. Phoenix police told FOX News, “Somehow she was playing on this treadmill, and there’s a cord that hangs under the console – … Continue reading →

Green Day’s Angry and Alec Baldwin’s Sorry

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Green Day has just released a new album and it is at the top the charts. However, if you are going to purchase it, you can save yourself a trip to Wal-Mart. The mega chain store is not carrying it. Wal-Mart, as you may know, censors some music. The company wanted Green Day to edit their new album, “21st Century Breakdown,” for language and content. Billie Joe Armstrong, lead singer for the group, was not agreeable. In a recent interview, he said “Wal-Mart’s become the biggest retail outlet in the country, but they won’t carry our record because they wanted … Continue reading →

Worst Father of the Year Award: And the Winner is… Alec Baldwin?

This is a tough one. It wouldn’t be, if these grown men, who were blessed with healthy children, didn’t engage in such extraordinarily despicable behavior. So does the award go to dog collar daddy, these self-centered pathetic patriarchs, or this furious father, who could use some serious anger management counseling? They are all quite deserving of the bad dad award, in my opinion, and if I hadn’t heard the latest from the poster boy of pompous pops, I’d gladly watch them duke it out for the title. But, oops, he did it again! Alec Baldwin simply refuses to learn from … Continue reading →