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Brooke: "How to Make Someone Really Happy"

We just celebrated my daughter Sierras 8th birthday. She is my nature girl, very different than the rest of my children, sensitive, simple, and caught in the middle of everyones attention. I asked her how she would like to spend her day, all she wanted was to ride a horse, go to a playground with her best friend and have dinner with her Dad and me at her long time favorite fancy restaurant. Shes my one child that asks for nothing, and is very clear as to what she wants.

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Making someone really happy…

What it takes to make someone really happyWe just celebrated my daughter Sierras 8th birthday. She is my nature girl, very different than the rest of my children, sensitive, simple, and caught in the middle of everyones attention. I asked her how she would like to spend her day, all she wanted was to ride a horse, go to a playground with her best friend and have dinner with her Dad and me at her long time favorite fancy restaurant. Shes my one child that asks for nothing, and is very clear as to what she wants.

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On Wanting More

Have you ever asked or prayed for something and promised yourself that if only you get through THIS, youll never ask for ANYTHING else again? I can recall only a few examples, but once I got through it, I prayed for something else. I did. If only I get myself out of this mess, Ill never want from anything else. Yah, whatever! That pot of gold always seems to be just around the corner, and once we get it, well never ask for anything else again. But truth is, we do ask.

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Finding My Way In An Economic Downturn

By Guest Blogger, Tamara Arbeiter I was recently laid off from my job. The Record of Employment I just received in the mail stated Economic reasons for my departure. As company policy goes, I was asked to leave immediately. Comforted only by the fact that a handful of very senior executives were also laid off that day, I packed up my desk, grabbed my kids photos and artwork and left, without time for goodbyes.