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You helped your mom make this…

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Then watched your brother’s boy scout troop in the parade…

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Your dad went here more than once that day. And bought one of everything. Twice.

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And that night you held these till your fingers got burned.

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But nothing could have made you happier.

Because staying up way past your bedtime, playing with fire and eating from the potluck table was your idea of perfect freedom.

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This was the 4th of July you knew you’d always remember.

And always have.

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Being raised by Zig Ziglar.

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  My dad was awesome. (You can read all about his awesomeness here and here and here.) And in the mid seventies he was sent by his company (Lightning Bolt I believe) to a Zig Ziglar seminar. And he returned with this genuine faux leather rectangular fold over pouch full of Zig Ziglar cassette tapes. [...]

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I have never liked being a girl. And why I am not a mommy blogger.

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I have never really liked being a girl. Wait back up- I liked BEING a girl, just never liked being segregated for it. My first of a million examples: In second grade I went storming into Mr. Greens office (our school principal) and protested the fact that I was told I was not permitted to [...]

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Technical Difficulties….UGH

The category pages are ALL MESSED UP. I working on fixing by re-entering every category and tag for all of my 800 posts in the archive. In the meantime use my search function to find past MarcyThen, AdTalk and more… The Association thanks you for your patience. And if you have some patience to spare [...]

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Sincerely Fro Me to You

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Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You! Read guidelines for entry here. Its really very simple. And a quick note to let you know I will be moving the FRO to a monthly linky. I am hoping this will give participants more time to gather/scan old photos and get their posts up. (will be 2nd [...]

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Sincerely Fro Me to You

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Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You. What is this? Read all about it here and then join in. As you know, I like taking photos. I have even been called a photographer. Yes, I have been paid to take photos for years. And as you can imagine I have taken hundreds of thousands of [...]

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Sincerely Fro Me to You: Making contact.

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Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You! This is a Linky Party, and it is BYOP so drop your post at the door with Mr. Linky. Guidelines and explanation on why we would all want to post embarrassing  photos can be found HERE. Once upon a time (circa 1982) my mother bought (for all of [...]

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Sincerely Fro Me to You!

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Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You. A weekly linky party which gives you the perfect excuse to break out those photos which have a funny story behind them. I love to humiliate myself…it is my new extreme sport…but you can humiliate your children if you prefer. Confused? Please read the guidelines here. I hope [...]

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SFMTY: What happens in Wisconsin stays in Wisconsin

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Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You linky party! Remember to read the guidelines if you are new to this….and then link up! I adore seeing what you bring to the party….so come on you lurkers- give it a try. After all public humiliation is the new extreme sport! Do not attempt to adjust your [...]

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Sincerely Fro Me to You!

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Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You Party! A weekly linky to post a photo- and tell its story…want all the details and how to join in? Click HERE Well folks, that is little one year old me in this photo. Being sprayed to death by my brother. My mom says she has the photo [...]

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Sincerely Fro Me to You: Merry Sweat-mas

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  Welcome to Sincerely Fro Me to You linky party! (I know this is on the heels of Proposal 2.0 linky. But I hate to miss a week on the Fro!) Where the photos you would really rather not show anyone are shared with the entire Internet. Which makes perfect sense to bloggers. Read all [...]

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