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Per usual, life happens like a freight train.
First, THANK YOU from my tip-toes for all of your help on migraines. I just hate how many of us know what it’s like because, HELL. I saw the doctor & she thinks it is mostly hormonal. I’m already...
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A slew of old pictures I found on the computer tonight.
Spring 2006 at a sorority sister’s wedding. Fall 2005. He has on a fro. I still married him. The day we brought Tuck home to our little apartment. October 11, 2006. I’m not sure who got me drunk...
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Momma growing pains.
Dear Harrison, On Saturday morning, I took you out on the sidewalk for the first time with your new scooter & you took off like a shot, so brave & indepedent. Later that night, after bedtime...
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A bit of random (plus things I’ve written)
As weird as it sounds, potty training is forcing me to come face-to-face with my own shit. Pimp my ride is back! Kind of! For those of you on the hunt for the perfect playhouse (like I was last...
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Let’s do the hard things
A week ago, the run nearly broke me. On the rolling hills surrounding my office, I ran & hurt & finally stopped on the final run. I couldn’t do anymore. I texted Doug & my friend Sarah that...
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how it feels to be me
Sunday morning smells like cinnamon rolls & Clorox. Wipe down the counter, throw in the load of laundry, pause for a puzzle, run a vacuum over the rugs, forget the stairs. “Momma, play cars with...
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Be a real person in the comments because it’s a real person on the other side.
The thing is, every time I write it’s a piece of me that I give away. Maybe you don’t want that gift, maybe you think that gift is dumb, maybe it feels like the time your Aunt Sally gave you used wool...
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It was all yellow.
Refresher: This was our living room when we first bought the house. Nearly every wall in our new home was this yellow/green that turned neon at night. It made my eyes hurt. I swore it was giving me a...
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Raising a book nerd.
At the end of the day when we’re all tired & wearing pajama pants, the boy is fresh out of a shower & I’m fresh out of energy. Doug dries him off as I lay out pajamas & they usually don’t...
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This has been a really weird day.
I knew I was in for it when Doug woke me up at 6:30am to say that the fridge was about to catch on fire. So we brewed coffee while we unplugged the beast & packed all the eggs & milk to be...
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House Tour: Harrison’s Room
We knew the moment we signed the dotted line on our new house that Harrison’s room was our top priority. We wanted to create a space for him that a) made him feel like it was home & b) give him a...
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Go brush your hair, aka Long Hair for Folks who Failed Girl 101
So. My hair. It’s really damn long & I love every single inch of it. I’ve had a lot of questions about how I do my hair, how I use hot rollers, etc so I thought I’d answer a few of them. (By...
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What, you don’t want to see me in my skivvies?
In our back family room, I contemplated going curtain-&-blind-less. It’s just ALL THAT GORGEOUS NATURAL LIGHT, you know? I’m such a sucker for it. Doug says I must have been a cat in a former life...
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Babble (Lately)
What we’ve been up to lately. This is probably why we’re tired all the time. I think toddler lunchboxes are darling. Here’s an idea of what I send for Hibby’s lunch. Parenting sucks. Parenting rocks....
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On not being swallowed by the storm.
Early last week, I deleted Facebook off my phone. I’ve been a member of Facebook since my senior year in college & truthfully, I am exhausted of it after almost 10 years. Then on Thursday night, I...
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Things I like that nobody else likes
| Brick kitchen floors | It’s like the people that make tile don’t even know that Pinterest exists. Doug & I decided that we wanted brick-looking tile in our kitchen/pantry/laundry & guess...
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Go on with yo bad self, Ms. Mayer
There’s been a lot of buzz around Marissa Mayer, the new CEO of Yahoo! & her recent ban on telecommuting. People are in uproar, aka OMG HOW COULD SHE DOOOO THIS TO US?! like it’s some personal...
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Getting Lucky
This weekend we went from this: To this: The color is my beloved Revere Pewter & my carpel tunnel is screaming. Pillows are currently being made to bring in more color because that’s a whole ‘lotta...
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Let’s wrap this week up, shall we?
I’m here, just abiding by the old adage that if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Because nobody wants to hear about your first world problems. & nobody wants to get punched...
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It is the day we have waited for & it is glorious.
Today finally arrived. It’s 6:43pm & the sun is still shining. MY SOUL HAS RETURNED. I’m going to admit that it was touch-&-go there for a moment & by a moment, I mean the entire winter...
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