Do you ever go to a store and spend more time admiring the way the store is decorated or the way an object is displayed than actually shopping? Have you ever gotten a gift and relished the packaging just as much as the gift? I admit that I do! I recently ordered a gift card from Anthropologie, and I just about died …

Thank you to all of you who came out to visit my Halloween Charity Photo Booth. The costumes were scary, and the kids were cute! Together, we raised money for Tri-Valley Haven, a local domestic violence shelter for children and families. You make such a difference!

I was wracking my brain for an image to include with this message. I thought, and thought, and I came up with this: an image of a little gourd that my 5 year old son brought home from the pumpkin patch. (By the way, I don’t take any responsibility for the shape of this gourd! My son picked it, and he loves it!)

My son came to me one day last week and said that his gourd had…

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