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clothes pins, legs & a zamboni

Do you ever get writer's block? I look back through posts that I wrote a year ago or even three years ago and I had so much to say. This blog started out as a way to document the lives of my littles and the older they get, the fewer funny stories I have to share. Talking about how I lay out their clothes in the morning and pack their lunches isn't very entertaining. I doubt you want to hear about my (sometimes) two hour commute or how the pizza place made me wait for 15 minutes when the sausage & pepperoni is supposed to be "hot and ready". What about how Ella's dance class let out late last night and I barely made it to Bible study on time. I'm rarely the girl with nothing to say, but the blinking cursor isn't very inspiring today. Josh helped me put together a list of arm / shoulder ...

Some Things

I was copying a few photographs onto my hard-drive this week and noticed there were quite a few things in spring that I didn't blog about. Seeing as they all occurred more than a few weeks ago, I figured it's a little late to recap at this point. Instead, I decided to share a few favorites along with some other random and useless information. Sound good? Back in February, our high-school had a fundraiser for the varsity baseball team in the way of an Alumni Baseball Tournament. This is the third year Josh has played and my girls always love spending time at the field watching their daddy. I loved this picture of me and Belle. This is a rare moment when she's in the mood to snuggle. The photo of Sophie below, is typical Taz. Mischievous with a gleam in her eye. She wanted to wear her ...

Finish This Sentence

Today, we're playing a game of finish this sentence. Unlike my sibling: my house doesn't look like a magazine cover (hers is BEAUTIFUL, by the way, and I'm not at all jealous. Okay, maybe a little). There is a lot of dust and dog hair in the corners, probably at least 9 loads of laundry to be folded, yesterday's dinner might still be on the stove and there is probably a sippy cup somewhere with curdled milk. It's unfortunate, but that's just the way it is. My best friend says: that we should have a slumber party. We haven't done that since high-school and I think we should do it. Is it weird for grown women to abandon their family for the night in favor of cream cheese icing and late night giggles? I think we should rent a hotel room, have a Twilight marathon and eat ourselves ...

Ramble On

Life has been a little overwhelming lately. We've had so much going on and I have barely spoken to my husband in over a week and I haven't spent any quality time with the girls. I thought maybe I'd just ramble on today about everything that going on at the rock house. Last week Josh worked in Iowa all week and that left the three of us girls on our own. He was supposed to fly out on Sunday afternoon, but his flight was delayed and he was going to miss his connection. He came home from the airport and spent some more time with us before attempting to fly out again on Monday morning. The same thing happened on Monday, so he spent four hours in Atlanta before another connection was available. After a somewhat uneventful week, he tried flying home on Friday night, but his flight was delayed ...

15 Weird Things You’ll Wish You Didn’t Know

on our way home from Panama City Beach the summer after he graduated high-school I read a funny post earlier in the week where the blogger asked her husband for a list of funny / random / unknown facts about her. It kind of made me snort laugh. Not really because of what he said about her, but because I could only imagine what my husband might say about me. I emailed him at work and asked him to compile a list for me. That was my only instruction. I didn't give him any direction about what I wanted, how many or how long they should be or even what topics were off limits. Here is what he had to say (with my commentary, of course): She wants everything to be divisible by the number five. I think we've discussed this before, but let me enlighten you just in case. I have a thing with ...

what I see

I hate to admit it, but I'm a bit of a voyeur sometimes. I'm not snooping around in your medicine cabinet or anything, but I'd like to see the inside of your house and I'm curious about where you work. Does that make me weird? I was playing around with the panoramic function on my phone this week and thought these pictures of my office were pretty funny (and it's rarely this clean). Then, on the off-chance you're as weird as I am, I thought I'd share them and show you what I see every day. And just so you know, any paperwork that's in view has been more than sufficiently blurred or otherwise obscured to protect the innocent! 1. It's hard to see, but I have a burlap bulletin board across from my desk. I covered an old one I found in my closet and added some nailhead trim. It's perfect ...

Monday’s Plan

When I left work yesterday, my plan for the evening sounded like this: Pick up the girls from Gran's. An early bath time. A little fall decorating (since we have done NONE at our house). Homework and prep for day two as "Leader of the Week" for Ella. Boil some chicken and make homemade chicken salad for dinner and lunches this week. Make pom-poms for Ella's Halloween costume. Fold a few loads of laundry. Read until bedtime. I should probably mention that Josh had an away game tonight, so the plan was centered around his absence in our home. Traffic wasn't too bad today and I got to my mom's about twenty minutes ahead of schedule. This bodes well for the evening's plans, right? Ella is so excited to tell me all about her first day as the leader, but seems a ...