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Reminds us of the evening just after Thanksgiving dinner! Good food, full tummy, and nap time!

One of my husband's friends recently told him that he's been sleeping on an air mattress for two years and loves it. So one day, without asking my opinion, my husband thought it would be a good idea to buy an air mattress to replace our very old Simmons Beautyrest Pillow Top mattress. He gave me the impression that if I didn't like it, we'd get a regular mattress. The first night we slept on...

It's a very bittersweet time in our house. Our 2-year-old really is a big girl now. The crib is gone, and it's been replaced by a big girl bed! This is how happy she was on the first morning she woke up in it. So far, it's been a surprisingly easy transition for her (for me, not so much! more tears from Mommy than her!). The only bad side effect? We haven't been able to get her to nap in the...

I'm not an avid user of Facebook but I do have both a personal account and a "john latenightmusings" account there. Because my use is occasional I'm not an expert when it comes to the various features the site has, and I don't have much interest in most of them. However, one of the features I enjoy is the alerts for friends' birthdays. Assuming the friend has entered their birth date, Facebook...

In the past few years since menopause came knocking at my door, I have all of a sudden become attractive to men who wouldn't have given me the time of day 20 years ago. Now I spend time with them practically every day. As soon as I wake up, I need WILL power to get me out of bed. Then JOHN wants to see me. After a strenuous workout at the gym, CHARLIE horse shows up and when he's around he...

Trick or Treat? By Tatjana “Irongeezelle” Eggink & Cliff “Irongeezer” Eggink Since October is the month of Halloween, Irongeezelle thought it might be apropos to provide a mixed bag of morsels, most tasty and most foul: News bites, sound bites, thought bites. You name it. What they have in common is that they are all non-fattening, even while some are frighteningly decadent, and...