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One of my closest friends, Becky, and I had lunch this past week. It was so nice to catch up after a good, year-long gap in our daily communications. Becky and I worked in corporate America together before we both decided that we wanted more. We were both pretty ambitious - but the ambitious that wouldn't ever be quenched if we were working for someone else. She left our company before I did and spent some time in Europe. I couldn't get an adventure to Europe past my husband at the time, but I soon left to stay at home with our 3 kids - which was an adventure in itself!

So, here we are - a year later...I am running Burbmom.net with Holly & Bianca. And Becky is running a business with her mom called Texas T-Shirt Quilts, based in Addison.

Texas T-Shirt Quilts is offering ONE LUCKY reader a FREE T-Shirt QUILT (Valued at $95). This Quilt is Approximately 45" by 60" in size - a Small Throw - Made up of 12 T-Shirts.

How do I Enter?

• Comment on this Post OVER AT BURBMOM.NET - 1 Entry

• Go Over to Texas T-Shirt Quilts - LOOK AROUND - Come back to BURBMOM.NET and Tell us Why You would love to WIN this Quilt - 5 Additional Entries


• Post a Blog About this Giveaway on your Own Blog linking back to Burbmom.net - 10 Additional Entries


• Twitter About the Giveaway - Linking HERE - 5 Entries


• Facebook About the Giveaway - Linking HERE - 5 Entries


• Send out an Email to your Friends about the Giveaway - 10 Additional Entries (COPY: shauna@burbmom.net)


• Please Email me - shauna@burbmom.net with a list of everything that you have done for this contest so I can keep track of the entries!

But has not concluded...

I woke up to this:


And this:
Now - exactly 25 hours after Start Time - it looks like this:


LOVING it. But - it is not complete. Stay Tuned....

Goals are a big deal to me.

I like them. I think they are important. And I think it is important to write them down. You may disagree with me (it probably isn't be the first time) - but anyhow. I do goals.

Kip & I like to focus on a few areas:
1. Faith
2. Family
3. Fitness
4. Finance
5. Fun (we added this one a few years ago)

We will be sitting down this weekend to do ours together. But I wanted to go ahead and put a few out there in the blogosphere for your reading enjoyment and my accountability:

• I have to lose weight. I. Have. To. I am the heaviest and un-"healthy"est that I have ever been in my whole life. Except when I was pregnant with Chase...those 9 months took the cake. Literally. I need to loose about 20-30 pounds. AND I want to do it in the healthiest manner possible.
  
• I plan to sit down at the same table to eat with my entire family at least 5 nights a week.
• Take a vacation with my husband.
• Continue to grow burbmom.net - I would like to see burbmom.net go live in at least 20 other suburbs in 2009.
• Work less. I love doing blog designs so much but I was so under-priced in 2008 that I worked nearly 365 days of the year and spent many of those days at the computer for 8-12 hours. No, really...I did. Ask my husband and kids...and my 300 PLUS customers. It is important to me to help provide for my family but I need balance. So, please keep those design orders coming, but expect to pay more than $25 for a blog design. :)
• Take at least two Bible studies at church & continue to grow in my faith and listen to God.
• Eat lots and lots of fruits & veggies. I just have a hard time eating well. And rather than eating less, I think I just need to eat better.