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An empty front porch 20 Aug 2013 | 10:46 pm
Last night, ugh. Yesterday I was excited. I had a planned a post – “School Year’s Eve” I would call it. I would talk about how we survived summer, the things we did and didn’t do and how I looked forw...
A veinous situation 8 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
Saturday night and I was sitting with my feet propped up on two large pillows from my bed, showered and fresh smelling, with surprisingly comfortable knee-high compression stockings. The only thing mi...
50 Shades inside my head 1 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
Right now my brain is a little like riding the Matterhorn at the county fair and witnessing the Exorcist first hand. But I feel like there needs to be a dumping of sorts so that I can free up my brai...
About those promises I made 21 Jun 2013 | 05:39 am
I suck. I promised the kids I’d be unplugged more and part of that’s true. I unplug in short bursts allowing for them to do things like hack my Facebook profile when I leave it logged in and walk away...
Let’s hear it for the boys (Dads) 17 Jun 2013 | 06:19 am
My husband feels like days like Father’s Day and Mother’s Day are just ordinary days – likely because he ends up having work so we don’t do it up awesome like a lot of people do. But I have to say som...
My plea to the Android Operating System 9 May 2013 | 05:30 pm
“Where’s my smooch?” I ask my husband as he gets ready to walk out the door to work. He quickly turns back around and ever so lightly, LIGHTLY pecks my lips with his. “You’re serious. Was that even a ...
Working the kinks out of your circular knitting needles 8 May 2013 | 05:30 pm
I did not come into this knitting thing easily. I paid for one class at my local yarn shop (class was free providing I bought the needles and yarn from the store) and the rest, give or take a few ques...
Gearing up for Summer Reading 2013 with our new favorite reading app 7 May 2013 | 05:45 pm
We’ve approached the end of the school year and I’m confident that Peanut has reached the reading milestone that he needed to end the first grade with (insert happy dance and party in my head here). S...
Meet Sylvia 7 May 2013 | 06:52 am
If you don’t know by now our family has been down to one vehicle for a few months. It’s been a sad, frustrating state of things trying to shuffle kids from their activities and finagle schedules so ev...
Tuesday Tunes: Good Things, Spring, New Beginnings & Closing Time 17 Apr 2013 | 07:58 am
I’m chatting with a friend, I promised myself that I’d get some things off of my personal to-do list but this seems so much more important right now. We’re talking about, well girl stuff. We’re doing ...