I’m not even gonna try to explain why it’s taken me so long to write Reason Two of this series of posts I promised you I’d write months ago. Sometimes you can manage to do ONLY that which keeps your children alive, one moment at a time, know what I mean? 2014 has been one of those “barely keeping the children alive” kinds of years, but I’m finally breathing some…
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Come On SPRING.
I think I speak for all of us when I say I have NEVER longed for spring as much as I am longing for it now. I am so ACHING for spring I can’t even stand it. This winter has been a beating and I am OVER IT. I’m a Texas girl after all, and we like our weather nice and warm down here, and our NORMAL winters that last…
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{Book Review} Fly Away by Kristin Hannah.
I read lots and lots of books. Scratch that… I BUY lots and lots of books, but since I have a toddler on the loose at home I don’t have too much time to sit and read anymore unless I just WANT her to climb onto the kitchen table and pour all the salt out into the leftover syrup onto a stack of napkins like she did this morning.So, no,…
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Words.
I was doing a little reading in the New Testament about Jesus the other day, and a few words jumped out at me. It was the part in Luke 19 where all the church leaders wanted to kill Jesus, but they didn’t, …because all the people hung on his words… I loved that. Maybe because I love words. Reading has always been my favorite hobby, and then there’s my other hobby,…
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{Trim Healthy Style} Breakfast Egg Scramble {and a Shortcut!}
I KNOW there’s nothing about this recipe that’s earth shattering or even remotely original. It’s just that I kind of get stuck in ruts on this THM journey, and found myself SO. BURNED. OUT. ON. EGGS. for breakfast. But they’re cheap, fast, and easy, and so incredibly healthy, chock full of PROTEIN and that incredible amino acid Tyrosine that makes you feel good…. so I want to eat lots…
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Our Living Room Tour {Before} and a Remodeling Update.
It’s been TEN MONTHS since I filled you in on our remodeling progress. TEN! I know you’ve been lying awake at night, panic-stricken because you don’t know WHAT’S GOING ON?!?! HAVE THEY PAINTED?! HAVE THEY GOTTEN CARPET?! And I’m sorry about for leaving you hanging, but you can stop making a big deal out of it because I’m about to fill you in. Meanwhile, if you’re new here, you need…
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{Trim Healthy Style} Undercover Brownies.
Y’all, I have to be honest… never in a million years would I have believed that a recipe for HEALTHY BROWNIES could ever be delicious. I mean, I’ve eaten the ‘diet’ brownies in the green box at the grocery store, and NASTY. And then when I read the ingredients list on these bad boys? I didn’t exactly have high hopes. But heck, I’ll try anything once, so I made these,…
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Katie Weighs in on Vitamins.
KYTX CBS 19 Tyler Longview News Weather Sports Katie’s on TV again, this time offering her two cents on vitamins. The link to the story is here… If you liked this post PLEASE share it with your friends! ~ Melissa Beene Taylor
Just Another Weekend at Our House.
Annie’s vest and Annie’s Valentine’s gum. Little sisters be stealin’ stuff. Checking out her new backyard digs. New, as in, the first time she’s noticed it… Fun on the trampoline with a great neighborhood friend. Love this neighborhood. So much laughing here. With that hair you HAVE to have attitude. If you liked this post PLEASE share it with your friends! ~ Melissa Beene Taylor
My Pretty Coat Model.
I’ve been in a closet-cleaning frenzy. And what inevitably follows a closet-cleaning frenzy is a ‘listing on eBay’ frenzy. My favorite model for my eBay pics is THIS gorgeous thang right here who is ALL too happy to jump in front of the camera at any time. Which is fortunate for me right now, because I realized a while back that I don’t have many pictures of Annie lately. The…
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Polar Vortex, Texas Style.
So, winter hit us hard last night with all its fury. It was so thrilling and exciting! We had sleet, then some freezing rain, maybe some snow flurries, and by morning our yard was barely recognizeable, and the kids didn’t start school until 10:00 this morning on account of the dangerous conditions. I LOVE THIS WEATHER (while it lasts). The grass is crunchy! Everything is so beautiful!! And then there’s…
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Big Sister Annie.
There once was a certain seven-year-old who ‘wasn’t ready to be a big sister.’ And I understood; when you become the middle child you cease to matter anymore in SOME families. You become the middle child, and your parents pay all the attention to the oldest and the youngest, and you never get anything but leftovers from the other two. In SOME families. I mean, I’m just guessing… It was…
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