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Meet a Reader | Karen from the Great Lakes

The Frugal Girl

I’m fifty years old, married almost 25 years, with four sons of various ages ranging from all grown up to still-working-on-it. ? an illustration I did for one of my son’s books. He loved it, although his mother asked him at the rehearsal dinner if he shouldn’t go get a haircut! ? Here’s Karen: 1.

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Meet a Reader | Ginger from Texas

The Frugal Girl

I’m a 53-year-old mother of 2 (grown) and grandmother of 4. My son and his family live in Montana. Here’s Ginger! Tell us a bit about yourself. I’ve been divorced (unmarried) for 15 years. Wow, time flies. My ex-husband and I have an amicable relationship. My daughter lives in California and we talk regularly.

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Free & Cheap Kindle Books: First Frost & More

For the Mommas

Generations, the Frost family has run the Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts, handing down guardianship from mother to daughter, always keeping their secrets to “family only.”. First Frost (FREE as of posting time). She knows the items in the glass display cases are fakes because, of course, magic doesn’t really exist.

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Yes, Nicole’s Nickels has an employee named Pennie!

Nicoles Nickels

I am the mother of one daughter and grandmother of one grandson and we all (along with my son-in-law) live together in North Carolina with my 2 sweet dogs and my daughter’s 2 sort-of sweet cats. By trade, I am a techie, by spirit I am a DIYer.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Nicoles Nickels

I’m pretty sure I always sang it as Grandmother’s house, which is weird since we actually went to my Grandfather’s house for holidays. The day starts/started with my mother or me or now my daughter getting up and stuffing the bird and getting it into the oven. Over the river, and through the wood, .

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Lazy Saturday Reads: The Potluck Club, Stars Collide and More Reads

For the Mommas

Though her sons have sold the house and sent her to a facility for the aged, she is determined to die in the place she lived her life, and somehow manages to find her way “home” day after day. Feeling sympathy for the elderly woman, Roz’s mother allows Tillie to move back in. Potluck Club, The by Linda Evans Shepherd.

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Homespun Alchemy™. In the Kitchen

Frugal Luxuries

being the son of a Swedish/American mother and a long ~ time foodie himself.is Little did I realize that doing so was to shift the paradigm of my long held belief that it was my grandmother who was responsible for all of the usual. Why you ask? quite versed in multitudes of unusual eats ( Lutfisk anyone ???). and unusua l.

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