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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{Baby Love} Susannah Joy, Fifteen Months.
Baby Susie Joy was fifteen months old last week. She thinks she’s ready for her own Instagram account with this duck face, but I say NO WAY. Not until you’re at LEAST 18 months. Gosh. Be a kid, you know? Look at those blue eyes. Yes, she’s beautiful, but she totally betrayed me by not having brown eyes. Can I please get one brown-eyed child? Except sometimes they are brown,…
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{Five Reasons THM May Not be Working} It Might be Your Thyroid, Part 2.
OH. MY. WORD. Have I really let SO MANY WEEKS pass after I promised you a new post every week for five weeks?! {Part One of this series is here} It seems I am unable to make a promise and keep it these days, in spite of my most enthusiastic intentions. Including all these New Years’ Resolutions/Promises I made to myself. Know how many resolutions I’ve made any progress on?…
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WIN a Trim Healthy Mama Book!
I just want you to know that I have THE most generous friends EVER. And one of them, we’ll just call her PB because I’m not sure she wants me calling her by her REAL name, gave me this book to give to one of YOU, because she is fabulous and wonderful and she knows the book can be a little cost-prohibitive for some, and she LOVES to share. We…
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The Serial Killer on the Roof.
So one day last week, I took my oldest girl to school like I always do, just like any other normal weekday. Little did I know what I would encounter when I arrived back home. And when I pulled up in my driveway I. Just. Knew. Something was off. Something, something wasn’t right. I had a strange sense of foreboding that told me not to get out of the car….
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{Nourishing Traditions} Coconut Chicken Soup.
I love soup. Which is semi-unfortunate, because my husband is a meat-and-potatoes man who will only eat soup in the event that there’s a zombie apocalypse and soup the only thing left after the dog food is all gone. The few times I’ve served up soup for dinner, he’s gagged, flailed, seized, and fallen out on the floor in a big dramatic display. So I don’t cook soup very often,…
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{Trim Healthy Mama} Five Reasons You May Not be Losing Weight.
I’ll be honest… I got frustrated with Trim Healthy Mama a few weeks ago, which is why I decided to sort of put it on the back burner. It was frustrating to see so many of my friends melting away SO FAST and me, trying as hard as I could, and not seeing the scale budge one tiny bit. I mean, seriously… friends reporting 50 or 80 pounds losses, THATFAST,…
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{Money-Saving Monday} Ebooks, Tropical Traditions, and a Recipe.
I had always heard about Beth Moore, and how her books were just SO good, and whatever, and every time, I mentally rolled my eyes,thinking (arrogantly?), “I have a degree in BIBLE, for Pete’s sake. Please. I have heard ALL the speakers, read ALL the books, done ALL the Bible studies… I don’t need to hear from one more prim, makeup-less lady in a denim skirt with her hair in…
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Through Thick and Thin.
I first wrote this blog post about my BFF in 2011, and I have to repost it now so she KNOWS I love her. Thanks, L, for being a better friend to me than I deserved, for half my life… Tomorrow I get to see my best friend. Its been twenty months since I’ve seen her… the longest span of time since 1993 when we first met in the ETBU…
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{A Better 2014} Teaching My Kids About Money.
I was lucky enough to be raised by extremely thrifty parents. I’m pretty sure I never said thank you to them for that. Oh, it didn’t feel fortunate at the time, when I was the last one of my friends to get Kaepa shoes and real Jams, and my dad was dropping me off at Moore Middle School in a 1973 {paid for, immaculate, with only a handful of miles…
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Four Things I Want to do Better in 2014.
A new year is just around the corner, and with a new year comes comes RESOLUTIONS big plans for doing everything better. I don’t dare use the ‘r’-word because my friend Stacy at Stacy Makes Cents says that those never work… and there’s darn good reason for that. And yes, I can call her my friend, because we’ve commented at each other on Instagram a time or two, and I KNOW…
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