Formerly Gracie

Stuff You Don’t Need: Baby Monitor Edition

February 18, 2011

Appealing to my mom + tech savoir–faire, a friend from college wrote me earlier this week to get a recommendation on baby monitors. Umm… Our first baby monitor was lost in the move, but it wasn’t anything worth raving about. The second time around, we went for inexpensive, basic, and utilitarian and bought the Safety […]

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My War Against the Toys

January 31, 2011

Instead of New Year’s resolutions, I set out to eliminate “Eleven Things” my life doesn’t need in 2011. I once read that if you set a goal and work at it every single day, it only takes 21 days (3 weeks) to make it a habit. So this is my public “check-in” to hold myself […]

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Oh, The Places I Have Been

January 30, 2011

It’s been a busy few months. I kicked off January in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show. I met an incredible group of women, “ladies who tech”. I saw tech in action that won’t be available until later this year, 2012, and even 2018, yet the BIGGEST thrill of CES… LeVar Burton. I haven’t felt that “in […]

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2010 In Review, A Meme

January 3, 2011

I picked up this meme from my dear friend Jessica’s blog. I too have a mountain of backdated posts in my head, but I wanted to take time to reflect on 2010. Want to join too? Copy the questions and answer them in your own blog, then link to Jessica’s post… or you can just […]

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With Love from the Duffy Family

December 20, 2010

I present our 2010 Christmas Card, brought to you by the talented eye of Jillian Kay Photography and understated elegance of Tiny Prints. Am I impressed that our Christmas card looks the pages of a Boden catalog? Completely. Do I get a kick every single time my mother-in-law calls to report that another dozen or […]

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Eleven Things

December 11, 2010

I was asked to consider what are 11 things my life doesn’t need in 2011. Here they are in no particular order: 11. Wishing for my old life back. (Conversely: Accepting my life as it is and learning how to appreciate it) Things always seem so much simpler when you’re looking back on them. I […]

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Snowman Collision

November 30, 2010

Rescue crew has responded and is on the scene. Bystanders witnessed a Lou fleeing the accident. The Lego police are investigating. Snowmen are under observation, but their hearts are going Thumpy-thump-thump. So it seems they’ll live. I crack me up sometimes.

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Black Friday

November 26, 2010

The first and incidentally only Thanksgiving we’ve spent with Mike’s family, his mom gleefully suggested that we giiiiirls (meaning my sisters-in-law and I) get all of the Christmas shopping knocked out the next day. The day after Thanksgiving… I believe I chortled, “Shopping? um… that’s what the Internet is for” and went back to eating […]

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