"Guess who likes brownie mix?" Everyone. Just ask Sophie. ...
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Tuesday
January is one of those months where nothing special happens. We are recovering from football season, from December, from the excessive spending around the holidays. We stay in, snuggled up watching movies, working puzzles and playing tea party. The girls go to bed early and we stay up late, reading or talking. Work is busy and stressful, design work is starting to pick back up again and we are finally getting back into a routine three weeks after school started. This is what a typical January Tuesday night looks like. Sophie insists on eating yogurt while we cook dinner. She is obsessed with sitting in her chair, wearing a bib and feeding herself. She is getting really good at it, but sometimes uses her fingers to dig the last few bits out of the container. I wish I could tell you ...
Revolutions
I saw on a blog several weeks ago, someone refer to their goals for this year as revolutions instead of resolutions and it really struck a chord with me. I think so often we make these lofty goals that we know we don't have a hope or a prayer of sticking with and then we feel guilty for the rest of the year for not "following through". Instead of starting fresh or getting back in the swing of things, we push the commitment off and procrastinate until another year brings with it the chance for a fresh start. I know that my goals always have to do with health, fitness and finances and I feel ridiculous listing them out for you to read, when if I looked back at last year it would be the same sad list. Josh & I have been talking about some goals for this year and some areas that we'd like ...
Unfaithful
I'm sure you've picked up {especially if you watched the vlogs} that I attend a weekly Bible study/fellowship time with a group of local girls. These are women that even six months ago I might not have classified as my "friends", but today I could not imagine living life without them. I have learned more about myself and my relationships and my heavenly Father since June that I might have ever known before. He is teaching us and growing us and forcing us to think outside of the box. We started by reading The Purpose Driven Life which helps you to evaluate yourself and what you are called to do as a Christian. Then we read Outlive Your Life where we learned how we fit into the world and how we can and should make a difference in what is going on around us. Currently, we are reading Living ...
Today
Our SD is already in Tuscaloosa this morning. We had a lazy morning and watched some Spongebob while we ate our breakfast. Both girls were up at 7 o'clock this morning {this is sleeping late} and believe it or not, that made 13.5 hours for Sophie! She fell asleep at 5:30 last night for a "nap" and never woke up. If you look closely, you can see my Watermelon coffee mug. I folded a trillion loads of laundry, drank two yummy cups of coffee and watched a few movies this morning. The girls built a makeshift fort behind Sophie's dollhouse and made her piggy bank squeal with some spare change. I planned my gameday outfit, new skinnies, red turtleneck and my puffy vest. I'm definitely taking a scarf and my fingerless gloves for today. It is perfect football weather! I thought about ...
Our Bed
As much as I would like to share a bed with my husband, only, this is what most evenings in our house look like. They might not all sleep in there every night or all night, but at some point in each week I am covered in limbs. Did I mention that we only have a queen sized bed and our dog weighs 95 pounds? Yeah. And in case you are having any trouble discerning what's really going on... my leg is hooked around SD to keep from falling off. The dog is ALWAYS on my side, behind my legs and stealing my covers. Sophie will only sleep on top of Josh and Ella is almost always laying sideways at the bottom of the bed, precariously close to the edge. And, yes. That "Ken" doll is actually Joey McIntyre of the musically talented New Kids on the Block. I had a very diverse musical library as a ...
It’s a list!
It's been awhile since I posted a weekly list. I have a couple of things to say (that are completely unrelated to one another) and I figured I could throw them all together in a hodge-podge post. Ready? 1. We are still soaking up summer. As much as I am ready for fall and cooler weather, I will really miss spending Saturday afternoons like this. Even when the girls aren't swimming, we're eating popsicles and reading Junie B. Jones poolside. 2. Dance is back in full swing. Today is the girls' third lesson this season and they are having so much fun. They moved up this year and are thrilled to be out of the "baby" class. They even learned a few hip hop moves last week and were eager to give us a preview (pictured left to right: Natalie, Kynnedi, Ella & Campbell). 3. If you read ...
in no particular order
I haven't had an iPhone for very long, but it's hard to remember how I survived before it. I still take my camera with me most places, but it's fun to capture quick moments that I might not otherwise remember. Ella & Sophie both like scrolling through the photo album to see what funny moments we managed to catch. So, in no particular order, some sweet moments from the last month. mommy got a new purse, sophie tried homemade orange sherbet, ella snacks on tomatoes new floral laces for our chuck taylors, sophie takes a swing, ella shows off her new seat a DP collection near my bed -- oops, an early morning text from sd & ella before school our french fry cooling mechanism, ella's new haircut, sophie takes a potty break ella on the way back from lunch (via my ...