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I love movies based on Nicholas Sparks’ books and am looking forward to the new one being released in theaters on February 14th based on his novel Safe Haven.

Safe Haven is an affirming and suspenseful story about a young woman’s struggle to love again. When a mysterious young woman arrives in a small North Carolina town, her reluctance to join the tight knit community raises questions about her past. Slowly she begins putting down roots, and gains the courage to start a relationship with Alex, a widowed store owner with two young children

Well here it is a month into the new year, and I can honestly say that I’ve been doing really well watching what I’ve been eating. I didn’t set out to lose any weight per say, but just to eat a bit healthier and be more active. It’s obviously been working, and I have been using different books over the past few weeks to get into a routine. I have actually lost nearly 4 pounds, plus I have more energy and have been sleeping better!

One of the books that I received was Reader’s Digest “The Digest Diet Cookbook.”

Get the strategy that was created in the kitchen of a 300-pound wife and mother who couldn’t afford another expensive weight loss plan. There was no more room in the family budget for ordering diet foods and supplements through the mail, no money to buy ongoing weekly support, and no way to pay for a high-priced weight loss surgery. Linda Goff had to find budget-friendly way to lose half of her body weight and keep it off for good. The Skinny Budget Diet was born.

It’s no secret that today’s moms feel overextended. There’s so much to do and only so many hours in the day! Audrey McClelland, Founder of MomGenerations.com, has four children under the age of eight (and another on the way) and she’s teamed up with P&G to offer her own tips and tricks for keeping the balancing act going. One of Audrey’s secrets: stick with what works. That’s why she is so excited about the launch of Swaddlers in sizes 4 and 5, and available at Target.

Are you already fretting about what to make for a Valentine’s dessert because you’re counting your calories, but you don’t want to disappoint your sweeties by making them nothing, or be a bit down yourself because you can only watch them eat it and not partake yourself?

No worries! Fiber One has you covered.

Regular readers of my blog will know that our family is trying to move to Texas. I say trying because we’ve had our home on the market for nearly seven months now, and we can’t move until we sell it. Besides that though, things are going great.

To catch up those of you who may not know about this ongoing saga, our daughter wants to attend UTD next year to get an arts & technology degree, and since my husband can just switch his location to one in the DFW area and we have no family or roots here, we decided it would be a good time to move South.

We’ve been fortunate in that we’ve had pretty good luck with the appliance we’ve purchased for our homes.

Not too long ago though I was doing some laundry in the evening and had some bed sheets in the dryer. I have a very sensitive sense of smell and thought that I could smell something burning. My husband couldn’t smell it though, so I tried to shake it off. Then when he got closer to the laundry room he said he could smell it too. So I went in, and the top of the dryer was blisteringly hot.

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If you’ve been reading my blog for a while then you’ll know that my family and I immigrated to the United States from Canada. In 2010 we became US Citizens, after a very, very long paperwork process. When you become a naturalized citizen there are only two documents you can use that prove your citizenship, your naturalization certificate and a passport.

A funny thing happened to us the day we became citizens – it likely wouldn’t have occurred if we lived in a metropolis, in NYC passports can be issued expediently without a very long wait at all. But we live in a small city and the only place you can apply for a passport is the post office.

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings have announced the release of Billy Joel’s She’s Got A Way: Love Songs, a new collection of 18 essential love songs drawn from three decades of recordings by the music legend and composer/singer songwriter. This collection comes just in time for Valentine’s Day!

She’s Got a Way: Love Songs is a perfect distillation of the artist’s expressions of love and romance over the course of his life and career.