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Tag: Jaime Ridler

  • {This Moment} and Circle of Stones

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    Valarie Budayr
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    I'm happy to offer one photo which sums up our week. Amanda is hosting this event which I'm greatly enjoying.   *********************************************************************************************************************** On another note,……I'm so honored to be featured on Heather of Shivaya Naturals, Circle of Stones. Thank you Heather for asking me to be a part of this. I'm thankful to all of…

  • Happy Friday

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Can you believe it? It's friday again and with that we must remind ourselves that it's happy friday. This week there is much to be happy over. First let me just officially announce that "I'm a Winner!!!" Yep that's right. I won gardenmama's give away. Coming to my home, all the way from South Africa,…

  • Happy Friday: I’ve got mail

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Today is another Happy Friday. This week I've received so much mail. Here is a special look at a couple of things the post-man brought for me. First, some of my valentines cards from the Valentine Swap have started to come in. They are just beautiful. It is so fun to get mail. Oh how…

  • Happy Friday: Tree on the Cabin

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Today is Friday and that means it's time for the Next Chapter Book Club hosted by the ever lovely Jaime Ridler. There were many happy moments this week but the one I will share with you today is the one that stands out as the happiest moment of this week and that would be when…

  • Happy Friday Anticipation

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    Valarie Budayr
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     Friday's are Happy Day's in Jaime Ridler's Next Chapter Book Club. As you know, it's been a tough week. All of my children have been sick with a stomach/cold type virus, which has left this house flat on it's back. As terrible as this sounds there were many happy moments involved such as watching our…

  • Write Off

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    Valarie Budayr
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    Welcome to Friday,it's Joy Diet time. This week was about making connections. Throughout the course of this book Martha oftentimes catches me off guard with her innocent chapter titles. I know her premise is that by chapter nine, we are hip happening people so why not share the wealth. Maybe she is getting us ready…

  • The Blue Plate Special

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    Valarie Budayr
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    It's Friday and you know what that means……The Joy Diet. This week Martha had us laughing up to 30 times a day. "It's like a mental Drano" she says. It releases and purges our mental function. Did you know that children laugh 300 times a day?  Yep, I can believe that. I have a bunch…

  • A woman ahead of her time…….

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    Valarie Budayr
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      That woman would be me. It seems I started the self-love treat giving a week before everyone else in the Joy Diet.The idea this week is to treat yourself twice a day whether you completed anything or not to inspire good behavior and a rememberance that you can do it so get into action. The week began…

  • The Magic of doing so I can eat chocolate……..

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    Valarie Budayr
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    I would just like to say that Martha uses really big scary words like fear, scary, and risk in her chapter called "Risk". It's Friday and time for The Joy Diet. It is so hard to move forward with words like these. Which brings me to my next point which is…..we have choices. Martha is just trying to…