The sun is just starting to come up. It’s your birthday. You are 29 today. I keep turning it over in my head, trying to account for the years in between your 18th birthday (the first one I celebrated with you) and this one, which you brushed off the other day as a “forgettable age.” [...]
This is what it looks like outside of my door today… It’s cold. It’s snowing. The skies are a nice shade of sick-dog and my poor kid backed away from me this morning saying, “No more painting, Momma! No more!” So, we took some lawn chairs up to the bathroom, filled the tub and threw [...]
I’ve adopted a Paleo lifestyle to manage my autoimmune disease and though doing so has made me healthier and happier, I’m still a Southern girl with a taste for things fried and divine. But if my Southern roots have blessed me with anything it’s an ability to press on and make something out of nothin’. [...]
Ada and I are just getting over the flu. Did I mention that we had the flu the week after we had strep? Yeah, it’s been peachy around here. We’ve been sick so often lately that we finally just pushed our couches together to create this massive nest-bed where we’re hunkering down and holding out [...]
One of the things I love most about blogging is connecting with other moms who are using their talents and creativity to contribute to their families. Etsy is a fabulous place to meet creative and hard-working folks and that’s where I recently connected with Jenny Owens, owner of Geneva Diva, a Tennessee-based creative business selling [...]
When I first started looking for inspiration for this party, I was disappointed that I couldn’t find many girlie takes on Curious George. Add that to my less-than-flexible party budget and February weather-woes and I was sort of stumped on how to pull this party off. With the help of some wonderful ladies and some [...]
My husband never comes home to a clean house, slippers and a martini; he’s lucky if I made it to the kitchen to start dinner. After a long day at work, he usually trips in the hallway on half-chewed crayons to find me sprawled out on the couch with our two-year-old passed out on top [...]
Dear Mom, This morning I left Ada in the living room to watch cartoons long enough for me to make a cup of coffee with the Keurig you bought me (thank you) for Christmas and the new K-cups (thank you,again) you brought when I complained about you only bringing my kid presents. When I turned [...]
See this? I’ve been pining over this picture all night. It’s a room in an empty building on Main Street, a building that used to be a bed and breakfast. There are other fabulous rooms in the building, a cottage out back and a courtyard that desperately, DESPERATELY, needs strings of twinkling lights dangling overhead. [...]
It’s almost midnight and I’m burning the candle at both ends. The only thing in this house working harder than me tonight is my coffee pot, which is purring and popping almost as if its protesting the overtime. It’s been a rough few weeks. Heck, it’s been a rough few years. Yet, glorious. Indulgently glorious [...]
