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Embracing 40 with Style and Pizazz!
It was birthday week in our household this week – not just one birthday, but two! Amy officially became a teenager on Wednesday, so on Tuesday evening the rest of the family secretly blew up a pack of a 100 balloons so that Amy would wake to a room full of balloons. We only had a few balloon casualties along the way. The next morning, hubby and I smuggled approximately 96 balloons into Amy’s room before she woke up. We covered her bed with as many balloons that would stay on her bed, and then waited in the doorway to her bedroom for her alarm to go off, which didn’t take too long thankfully. Amy really…
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Under the Tuscan Sun
‘Under the Tuscan Sun’ is one of my all time favourite movies. I love the imagery of Italy. The houses built into the hillside, the cobble stone roads, the beautiful old architecture, the vineyards, and the beautiful landscape of Italy. The story line is good too. ‘Under the Tuscan Sun”, is about a woman called Frances Mayes, who happens to be a writer – a writer with writers block, who suddenly finds herself unexpectedly divorced. Her friends cash in their Tuscany tour holiday so that their friend could have some fun, cheer up and find some direction. At first Frances refuses, but then she realises she needs to escape the pain…