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Cooking has not been one of the best things I’ve done in my life. My children and husband can vouch for that fact and claim it to be true. A few years ago I was watching the cooking channel because my twin girls and their boyfriends were coming for Thanksgiving dinner. The challenge was on so I found Paula Deen on the Food Network and followed all her tips making the complete Thanksgiving meal that was posted on her website: PaulaDeen.com The meal was a huge hit down to the sweet potato balls stuffed with marshmallows!

 
My girls were wondering at first who made the food and when I confessed I was learning how to cook by watching Paula Deen my daughter Laura said “Oh great, we move out of the house and you learn how to cook mom!”

 
This was my first introduction to Paula Deen because of searching for food to cook and since I was letting my hair grow to it’s natural color, I guess I became inspired by Ms Deen.

 
One day while standing in the check-out line at the grocery store, I saw her photo with that sparkling smile! Her teeth were so beautiful! What a lovely woman she is. My heart’s desire then become to SMILE like Paula Deen.

 
Sharing this news with my hairdresser, she suggested I contact a local dentist that was highly recommend and was quite well known in our community by everyone but me. I had never heard of her or this “Smile Design Studio” found in Ocala but I called the number and made an appointment for the very next day.

 
I am well known as the “Jump in” kind of gal, wasting no time I was so excited to head to the office where my dream may come true and I will receive the smile like Paula Deen! I felt like I was taking that first step to the smile of success!

 
The ladies in the office were very friendly and did say that could pass as a “Young” Paula Deen and they couldn’t believe my hair was naturally gray at my “young” age! I guess they didn’t realize I was 50 years old at that point. After I had the grand tour of the spa like dentist office, the questions began of “How much money do you have and How much money can you afford to spend?” My mind was in a daze as I wanted to get prices and hear of a plan for my teeth not how much money was in my pocket?

 
I said, “I want a smile like Paula Deen!” Then the truth came out. It coincidentally seems the dentist personally knows the same dentist that actually DID Paula Deens smile and she confessed that her smile cost $75,000.00! I was like WHAT? She also revealed that Paula Deen’s original teeth were in worse condition than mine, so my fee should be under $45,000.00.

 
Now, I’m sure you can feel my dilemma because I want to smile like Paula Deen BUT I can’t see taking out a second mortgage on my home.
$4000.00 a tooth and other fees to boot, *sigh* I can only smile in my dreams like Paula Deen!

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Last weekend Jimmy and I were spending quality time learning how to use our new Droids. We were using the Navigation settings in addition to the Zillow App which helps you find a house for sale.  Traveling the coast in Florida along A1A we wanted to take a look at homes in Palm Coast. Jimmy said “Palm Coast” to his phone and it started to guide us in the right direction. We grew fond of the voice commands telling us where to turn while following along on the screen.

Soon, we were in the town of “Palm Coast Florida” and the navigator kept giving us commands. I told Jimmy he could shut it off now since we found the town but it kept giving us directions. We decided it would be fun to follow along where it was telling us to go. Soon it spoke “”You’ve arrived at your destination.”  I was driving and pulled in front of the house, looking for a For Sale sign but there was not any. We both wondered WHY were were there when Jimmy turned to me, he was white as a ghost and he said “wt is this?” I leaned over to see the sign above the garage read: JESUS.

We both were seriously wondering WHY we were there. I parked our vehicle and walked in front with my camera to take this photo:

What do you think it means?

Do you think we should have knocked on the door?

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