It Is The 5th Anniversary Of Jodifur-Contest

November 16, 2011

I can hardly believe it.  I have been writing this nonsense on the internet for 5 whole years!  This thing that started as "yeah maybe, I'll have a blog," has continued for 5 years!  5 years!  That is half the length of my marriage!  One year younger than Michael!  The wood anniversary! As is the [...]

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May The Force Be With You

June 20, 2011

We had one of those insane weekends, those weekends that involve running from here to there and everywhere.  Two birthday parties, karate, swim team, Father's Day, and dinner with friends.  Dinner with friends we never get to see but that I adore so much.  The friends that you have known forever and when you do [...]

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Tinkering Away #Giveaway

June 14, 2011

On Sunday, my family was lucky enough to be invited to the new exhibit at Port Discovery in Baltimore, Md. We love Port Discovery.  Michael loves the climbing structure and the Egypt exhibit and the Mystery House. It is one of our favorite day trips.   I was thrilled when the lovely people at Port [...]

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I Do Not Have A Green Thumb

April 19, 2011

Ever since we moved into this house Doug has wanted a garden.  Last year we bought Pear trees, and this year we are going full out garden. Here's the thing, I should not garden.  I suck at gardening.  I'm allergic to basically the outside, and I kill plants.  But Doug really wants to do this [...]

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Two Quick Things

April 16, 2011

I know, no one reads blogs on weekends but the weather sucks in DC, so what else are we doing? (I should be cleaning for Passover.  And exercising.) 1.  There is still time to enter my contest for a Scout bag.  I can not express how much I love these bags, and everyone who sees [...]

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Friends With Bags-Giveaway

April 11, 2011

It is safe to say I was having a crap week last week.  My friend Lindsay invited me to an event at Artisans Gallery, a unique gift shop I had been to a few times before.  And I knew the one thing that would really cheer me up would be my DC blogging pals.  So [...]

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Let Me Apologize Now: I’m Going To Blog About Blogging

January 12, 2011

I've been thinking about how I do things around here. Ever since this blog started I have emailed every single commenter back as long as they left a valid email.  I feel strongly about it.  I have gained really strong friendships from doing this, and I think it helped me build a sense of community [...]

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2 Things

January 11, 2011

Today is the last day to enter my Life From Scratch Giveaway; and My Next Great Baker Recap is up.

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Life From Scratch

January 5, 2011

  I'm lucky enough to call Melissa Ford of Stirrup Queens fame a friend.  When I heard her read at the BlogHer 2009 keynote I made sure to find her and tell her I thought her post was amazing, but also, I thought we knew each other.  We played some Jewish geography and discovered we [...]

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Tangled Winner

November 24, 2010

The winner is Julie, who does not have a blog.  I emailed you but if you did not get it email me at jodi@lucidphoenix.com. My mom is taking Michael to see Tangled today and I'm cooking for Thanksgiving.  I'm jealous.

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