i hate picture day. now…i am aware that “hate” is a very strong word…and it is, indeed, bordering on over reacting…but any time pictures are involved, it evokes pressure that feels equal to filling out college applications. i knew that today was picture day. i knew it because i got the forms to fill out (3 […]
we celebrated honey’s 91st birthday on saturday after colton’s basketball game. one of my favorite stories to listen to her tell is about how, when she was a little girl, she would spend every summer at her grandma’s house, out in the country. blackberry cobbler is still her favorite desert because that is what my great, great […]
chase has been in bed for the last 3 hours. i thought he was asleep. i suppose he heard colton come in from basketball practice a little bit ago and decided that it would be his best shot at getting downstairs. he obviously needed a worthy excuse, though. i’m not sure how long it took […]
this weekend didn’t let us down…it was an over achiever. we celebrated two birthdays. one was my mother’s. we went to a fancy shmancy restaurant with white table cloths and formal waiters and multiple glasses and lots of “oh wows” on the menu. you know the kind when the waiter tells you the specials and you have […]
many of you may not know that i have a fear of balloons. this fear stems back to childhood when i was at a birthday party where we played an unfortunate game where we tied balloons around our ankles and then tried to stomp on everyone else’s balloons. the last one standing with an unpopped balloon was […]
once again, pinterest made itself useful. this time…with a simple hair idea. the thing that i love about pinterest is that usually i can just look at the picture and figure it out. i’m not one to do a lot of research. i’m more of a “show me the picture and i’ll figure it out myself” […]
under no circumstances can i divulge the information that was shared at the slumber party…i mean…sleep over friday night. all i can say is that i had absolutely no idea that the whole “guy/girl” thing had started up already. where was i???? i will say that 3 out of the 4 boys wanted nothing to […]
i’ve been thinking about some things. one of which is, am i ever going to break away from the top knot??? and do people think i look like a messy, unorganized, grungy librarian?? the second thing that i’ve been thinking about is colt’s 11th birthday sleepover. it’s tonight and it is our very first slumber […]
pinterest is proving it’s worth in countless ways…and i’ve only been a member for, like, a month. i checked out some photography pointers for bringing out the eyes in a photo. and who better to practice on than the sweet pea. she is really the only one who has the patience for my camera being […]
eleven. he’s eleven. and that just sounds old. but he is. and there is nothing i can do to make him ten again. i was used to ten. i was comfortable with ten. yesterday…january 14th…at 10:28 am…he turned the big one one. and i made sure hot chocolate greeted him. with whipped cream and sprinkles, […]