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Kasım, 2011 tarihine ait yayınlar gösteriliyor

{A Gingerbread Christmas}

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'Tis the season for holiday decorating...and my house is finally--after several days of boxes and messes and chaos--looking like it's Christmas Season. I love it!   I have an obsession with gingerbread . Real, fake, anything gingerbread. I love the taste and the playfulness of the candy decor. I love the colors of the candy and white icing against the dark brown of the gingerbread. I have dreams of living in the witch's house from Hansel and Gretel. Wouldn't that be awesome?! But if I lived there I wouldn't trick children into thinking I was a sweet little old lady and then try to fatten them up to eat them. Here is a glimpse of my gingerbread collection: I'm not usually one who likes "cutesy" decor, but when it comes to gingerbread decor, the cuter the better! I've also collected gingerbread ornaments for years...and I have enough that I think I can title my 9-foot tree a "Gingerbread Tree." Well, I figured it was high-time that my gin

{Benefit For Becca}

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Hello, everyone! We've been swamped lately (again) with life and family and work and vacations and holidays, but we wanted to make a quick post on behalf of our cousin, Becca. "Becca was recently diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis . She is a wonderful wife and mother to 6 children, three under the age of 5 and two with autism. Needless to say, her hands were already very full before this debilitating disease hit. Myasthenia Gravis is a chronic condition that causes muscles to tire and weaken easily. Common muscle groups that are affected may make it difficult to chew, swallow, smile, shrug, lift your arm up, grip, rise to a stand, or walk up stairs. When the muscles necessary for breathing are affected, a patient is said to be in myasthenic crisis. This is a life-threatening situation. Currently she is taking a large dosage of Prednisone to avoid any breathing difficulties. She is scheduled to get her thymus removed (thymectomy) on Nov 10, 2011. Thymectomy seems to improve symp