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Grateful at 45

March 25, 2020 by Elaine

I am sitting in my dining room typing this. The girls are in one room, playing with LEGO, which they had long abandoned, but decided to resurrect during their break from our haphazard homeschooling. The boys are doing school work or watching YouTube and/or still sleeping. My husband is on a work call in his…

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Filed Under: Birthdays, Elaine, Listing, Milestones, thoughts Tagged With: birthday, blended family, gratefulness, midlife

Right Now

November 2, 2018 by Elaine

*Swish, Swish*…. Excuse me while I brush the dust off of this thing……. I failed to write here yesterday, but I would like to try to blog every other day this month. You know, for good ole NaBloPoMo. Today I want to tell you about something really interesting. My Life. Ha ha ha… that’s what this space is…

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Filed Under: Life, Listing, Misc., poetry, writing

Some Things You Need To Know About Me

November 7, 2016 by Elaine

I am loyal to a fault. Good music makes me completely swoon. I believe art is life. My kids are my world. I cannot wait to get to Paris and Prague. (Jennie, I’m coming, I promise!) Someday I want to get married again. I could live at the ocean. Starting tomorrow. I love my hair….

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Filed Under: Elaine, Listing, Misc., selfies Tagged With: #NaBloPoMo

Kid Requests

November 3, 2016 by Elaine

My kids are always asking for stuff.  From a quarter for that dumb toy from China, from inside the Godforsaken machine in the lobby of the pizza place, to toilet paper. Obviously one of these things is a necessity (at least in our house) and the other SO. IS. NOT. Here are some other things they…

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Filed Under: Kids, Listing, Motherhood, Parenting Tagged With: NoBloPoMo

Books I Read in 2015

January 18, 2016 by Elaine

Last year I read close to 30 books.  Some of them are not listed here because they were self-help type books and well… some things ARE still personal (believe it or not).  Also, these are in NO particular order and it’s possible that I forgot a couple (clearly I need to keep better records of this in…

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Filed Under: Friends, Listing, reading, writing Tagged With: books

Old School Blogging – ABCs of Me

September 16, 2015 by Elaine

So hey, what’s up old school bloggers? It’s BAAAACK! Aren’t y’all excited? I am! I sort of kind of (not really, just thought it best to) took a summer break from OSB but I am back and ready to read all about your ABCs of Me post this month!  This one is TOTALLY old school….

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Filed Under: #OSB, #OSBlog, Elaine, Listing, meme, Old School Blogging

Old School Blogging – 12 Questions

April 15, 2015 by Elaine

Whew! Y’all, I almost forgot about Old School Blogging this month!  Can you believe that? (yes, so can I).  Thankfully it came to me amongst a ton of other random thoughts yesterday morning and my pal Emmy is a real trooper and decided short notice was fine.  I have such great friends.  Emmy is an…

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Filed Under: #OSB, #OSBlog, Elaine, Listing, meme, Misc., Old School Blogging

Old School Blogging – Full-on Random

March 11, 2015 by Elaine

Oooh boy, aren’t y’all glad Old School Blogging is back?  I know I am!  I skipped last month for some reason.  February is just short, you know.  And not that I have anything against short things (I am a short thing) but it just went by so fast and  I had a lot going on…

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Filed Under: #OSB, #OSBlog, Listing, meme, Misc.

Old School Blogging- Reflections

January 14, 2015 by Elaine

Hey all, it’s that time again (I skipped last month. last month was NUTS!)  Anyway, I am going it alone with Old School Blogging this month.  Mostly because I was so busy with December that I simply forgot to ask for a co-host.  When I was thinking about what to do this month I bounced…

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Filed Under: #OSB, #OSBlog, Listing, meme, Old School Blogging

Old School Blogging – A Few of My Favorite Things

October 15, 2014 by Elaine

I know, now you cannot stop singing, “these are a few of my favorite things…” No? Just me? Krysytn from Really, Are You Serious? and I have come up with a little list of some of our favorite things and we want you to share yours too. This is REALLY Old School, right?  I have…

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Filed Under: #OSB, #OSBlog, Listing, Misc., Old School Blogging

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Miss Elaine-ous Me

Hi! I'm Elaine, a transplanted Texan who has spent almost 15 years living in Cajun country. I am re-married to Brandon and we have five kids: together, ages 19, 16, 16, 14 and 14 and crazy but lovely dog, Charlie. I am also an office manager, occasional writer, prayer, and lover of life! Find me on Instagram (misselaine0375) and contact me at misselaineous0375 (at) gmail (dot) com.

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