Paris Mountain Hike

Longest. Hike. Ever. Okay, so not really, but for someone who’s been slacking off on her fitness routine the past few months, this hike totally kicked my butt. It was something like 2.5 miles.  I know, I’m a wuss. I DID have Eliot strapped to my back the whole time, but that doesn’t really exempt [...]

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Why Yes, I Am . . . .

. . . . wearing my seven year old’s GAP hoodie. You got a problem with that? (photo courtesy of Gillian Martin) It actually started out with me being silly. There were a couple of teenagers over here and we were joking around. I put on Liam’s hoodie and was like, “hey, I could do [...]

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Another Thing I Learned the Hard Way

There’s being frugal, and there’s being smart, and when you’re a busy mom, sometimes the two don’t work together. Like in that moment when you decide to finish off your kid’s orange juice because you don’t want it to go to waste. So you pick it up and start guzzling down that orangy goodness, only [...]

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Best. Day. Ever.

One of the greatest things about little kids is that after a day when you’ve all been sick and grumpy, a day you’ve made them do school anyway, a day you also made them clean their playroom and probably snapped at them more than once, you can simply offer to make cookies and they run [...]

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Pinchanzies

There was this really great moment the other day as I was driving Liam and his buddy Brayden to Giggle Bugs to play, when I couldn’t help but listen in on snippets of their conversation. ” . . . as the pinchanzees were swinging from the trees . . . “ ” . . . [...]

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Did That Really Just Happen?

Liam: I love it when it’s buttoned. Gillian: I hate it when it’s buttoned. L: I Love it. G: I Hate it. L: Love it. G: Hate it. L: LOVE IT! G: HATE IT! L: LOVE! G: HATE! (Then, simultaneously . . . ) L&G: Love, hate, love, hate, love, hate, love, hate, love, hate [...]

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Hauling Out The Holly and Everything That Goes With It

As I mentioned yesterday, I don’t normally get my Christmas decorations up the day after Thanksgiving because we traditionally stay in GA with the Martins/Jacksons/Stovalls, etc. on the Friday after and I’m just too beat to use up my Saturday. This year though, thanks to VZW and Black Friday madness, Andy was working and there [...]

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The Wee Small Hours

I don’t suppose it’s really surprising, seeing as I’m writing this at 1:30 in the morning, that last night we couldn’t sleep. Usually Andy’s an out the second your head hits the pillow kind of guy, but we were both mind racing. We ended up actually having a wonderful time watching some shows together, raiding [...]

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Halloween, Peter Pan, and Love Me Some Asheville

Halloween Went up to Shelby to hang out with my folks. I LOVE that they’re close enough now for us to just run up for a day or two whenever we want! Although I thought maybe they’d get less candy doing a trunk or treat than they would visiting a hundred houses. WRONG! Them folks [...]

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Picture Moments

Just a few glimpses of the last couple of weeks. Gifts. Moments. Sweet babies.

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