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March 2008 - Posts

Queen for a day

Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 2:16 PM

I am not a runner, but I did experience a sense of euphoria as I crossed a finish line this weekend: I finally put away all of our wedding gifts. I morphed from a newlywed into Shoshana: Queen of the Household. Yes, it took more than five months, but,

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Unique Like Everybody Else

Posted Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:26 PM

Maybe this is a long shot … but how unique can your wedding idea be if you heard about it from someone else? Such is the dilemma of many brides-to-be. As I peruse magazines and online articles (type in "wedding trends" on Google and you will find nearly

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Linens and Things II: A Bright Idea

Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 1:53 PM

Our front light burned out … again. Of course, replacing it isn’t as simple as screwing in a new lightbulb. There is a process: 1) Open garage door – carefully avoiding crickets, spiders and other creepy crawies – to obtain step ladder 2) Get a screwdriver

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Linens and things

Posted Monday, March 17, 2008 2:01 PM

“We need towels.” I turn to my husband as we poke through the linen closet. “How is it we don’t have towels? We have a cabinet full of sheets for a bed we no longer have and yet we have no towels?” “We have the towels in the bathroom,” he tells me. “Yes,

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Who says you can't go home?

Posted Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:25 PM

If anyone had told me 16 years ago that I would be sitting in my high school auditorium, sitting with my husband, my bubbe, my father and my father’s girlfriend -- I would have said they were crazy. But isn’t it funny how life can change? The first time

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Let's stay together

Posted Thursday, March 06, 2008 2:03 PM

Why can’t people seem to stay together? We invest time in their relationships. Applaud their triumphs as couples and mourn when things don’t go well. So why is it that everyone is breaking up? I blame the networks. While my adorable hubby was out of town

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Walking down the (grocery) aisle

Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 12:30 AM

They say money doesn't grow on trees. Technically it does, just not with the presidents on it. This week, I took a journey down the road of money management in a way that I wouldn't necessarily have before. I knew that this was a week for a "big shop":

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About Shoshie

This Chicagoan turned California girl is all about making people smile -- and I love to plan things. For more about me, and how I'm making my way through Just Married life, Enjoy My Blog: Tales of a Jewish Newlywed.


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