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    The Best Ideas for Celebrating Gotcha Day

    I recently wrote a post titled, “Everything You Need to Know about Gotcha Day.”  If you’ve read it, you know that after researching everything about Gotcha Day, I am still uncertain about whether or not I wanted to start celebrating it with our boys. To be totally honest, I really do love any reason to have a party.  But especially since having kids join the family!  It is just amazing + wonderful + heartwarming to see their faces light up for special occasions and festive events.  I’m not above making up “holidays” to do something special and fun for/with my boys! You have all heard of “National go with your…

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    Everything You Need to Know About “Gotcha Day”

    “Gotcha” is a word I have never liked for a few simple reasons – I don’t like the way it sounds coming out of my mouth AND I don’t like the way my mouth has to move in order to say it! The more I hear it or say it, the worse it gets.  Have any of you ever had a word like that?  I used to have a similar reaction to the word “scrumptious.”  My Grandma always used the word “scrumptious” to describe every meal.. and it drove me crazy!  Now that she has passed on, I don’t mind hearing it, because it makes me think of her.  But…