Contractually bound

Just fulfilling my “Mom-Blogger” obligations…   The pictures end there for him because he began sobbing hysterically and had to be pulled from my arms, which you can only image was super duper and such a neat way to start my day. It was an emotional day – just all around hard. I spent a […]

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I hate to say I told you so, but…

Alternately titled: Home Project Fail Alternately titled: Oops Alternately titled: Piece ‘o Cake my #$* Alternately titled: This is what happens when I try to be Martha Stewart Alternately titled: I picked the wrong day to stop drinking Alternately titled: Back to the drawing board? Alternately titled: This is why Pinterest makes people like me feel […]

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Thank you

Thank you for your kind words, your texts and phone calls, your emails and Facebook messages. Thank you for your support and love for our family and for having our back as we take these steps.   It’s scary.   It’s exciting.   It’s good.   Faith is alive and we have nothing but that […]

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And then there were six?

This guy has been asking to do this for awhile… Photo by Lulu Photography (LuluPhotog.com) This girl told us a few months ago that she was praying very specifically… This guy gets to play a new role and he is thrilled… This girl is stepping onto a path toward her dream come true… And this […]

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To be continued

Life is full right now. Full of grand things and the beauty of miracles unfolding.   Life is hard right now. Full of the unknowns that leave you with so many doubts and fears.   Life is fun right now. Full of joy and laughter and a family united.   Life is changing right now. […]

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The Tooth Fairy’s a Vampire

Tia lost one of her two front teeth last week. It wasn’t the one I expected her to lose first, which means the looser of the two front teeth was left hanging precariously to the side without a mate to hold it up. In short, it was the epitomy of The Snaggletooth: Because she outright […]

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Old House Help

You know the website Young House Love? You know how cute their house is and how good they are at updating it, changing it, decorating it, loving it on a budget? Imagine that but the complete opposite and you have my house. Full of potential but unfortunate to have an owner without a decorator’s bone […]

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Watch your back, Peyton Manning

Dear Peyton Manning, I think you’re great. I mean…well, truthfully, had I not married into a family full of sports nuts, I probably wouldn’t know who you were. I’d likely have only a passing awareness of your name, but I would not be intimately aware of the details of your life, your big moves (Go […]

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.41¢

I took the boys with me, a Mama and son date. Tia spent the weekend having her girly tank filled with her cousins. They did hair and played dolls and giggled and laughed. And so it was that I was alone with the boys for three days and errands were an unwanted necessity. The kid’s […]

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Ready, Break!

I am on technology overload this week and I’ve hit the burn out zone, which can only mean it’s time for a much needed break. Sometimes the constant noise leaves me feeling emotional, unsure of myself and altogether irritable so I’m just going to take a few days off to collect my thoughts, get a […]

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