Have you heard of Trades of Hope? I have to admit I hadn’t, until one of my college friends became a ‘Compassion Entrepreneur.” (Here’s her story). I checked out her page, and Y’ALL. I am hooked! I love what this business stands for! Just reading a little about Trades of Hope on the internet made me all teary-eyed. Maybe it’s the social worker in me, but I LOVE organizations that MAKE…
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{Just Like Grandma’s} Chicken and Dressing.
It is getting to be THAT time of year! You know, when it’s cold outside, comfort food abounds everywhere we turn, we find a reason to eat and party every day between now and Valentine’s day, and we bust out the baggy sweatpants because they’re stylish because our washing machines mysteriously start shrinking our clothes for no reason… And one of my favorite comfort foods ever? Chicken and dressing…. but…
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A FaBuLouS Hair Bow Giveaway! $60 Value!
Hi, my name is Melissa and I make hair bows for a living! I started making them in 2002 when my now-twelve-year-old was a baby, because I wanted one to match every outfit and I figured I was crafty enough to make them. I was working at the BEST little childrens’ clothing store at the time (still work there, actually…), and so just for fun, I stuck a few of…
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Are you a BLESSING or a BURDEN?
I have to confess: I stole this idea from my sister. I’ll tell you what, she’s come a long, long way from the first grader who used to steal my pop barrettes, fake falling down the stairs so she could miss school, scratch up my Donny and Marie records while I was at kindergarten, and that one time she splashed nail polish all over my bed… Seriously, she’s a…
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Baby Susie’s Birthday Party.
My baby girl turned one last week. I always have such mixed feelings at my babies’ first birthdays, MOSTLY all choked up and emotional, because DANG, it goes by so fast!! I mean, seriously… we were JUST celebrating Katie’s one year birthday, like, two weeks ago, and now she’s twelve. But then it’s such a happy thrill, too, watching the little people they become… little people who sleep through the…
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{Baby Love} A Year Ago Today…
…Baby Susannah Joy came into the world and made our family complete. It’s been the best year of my life (despite the sleep deprivation). Being a family of five, a mom of three girls, the wife of the most incredible guy in the world, being parents with him and watching him be a dad to a wee one, watching my girls be big sisters to her… My heart is overflowing….
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An Update and an Answer to Prayer for Baby Susie.
It’s been six weeks since Susie had two seizures back to back. After a trip in the ambulance to the ER after the first seizure where she had a CAT scan and a series of labs run, we followed up with her pediatrician and even more labs to test for metabolic or genetic disorders. Praise the Lord, all of her labs came back perfectly normal. PERFECTLY, in the middle of…
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{Baby Love} Eleven Months.
Our sweet Susannah Joy was ELEVEN MONTHS old yesterday. Our sweet blue-eyed baby. Or are they brown? Green? Hazel? I think they change every day… She’s becoming a little PERSON. With a PERSONALITY. This is one cute new thing she does… when she’s sleepy, she gathers up the front of her clothes into her fist and pulls it up to her nose like a ‘blanky’ while she sucks her thumb….
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A Tree in a Garden, and a Baby with a Trashcan.
Susie has a walker now, and our house will never be the same. Specifically: the kitchen trashcan. OH, how she wants it. It started when I was cooking in the kitchen, she was bumping at my ankles in her little pink walker because wherever I am she wants to be RIGHTTHERETHISCLOSE, and I threw some scraps in. Her eyes were opened and she noticed for the first time, there in our…
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Trim Healthy Almond Joy Bites and a Coconut Oil Giveaway.
There is not ONE THING about this recipe that isn’t my FAVORITE. I love coconut. I love chocolate. I love almonds, and most of all, I love coconut oil. Combine them all into one delicious bite? Well, you can’t POSSIBLY top that. For years, not only have I used coconut oil in every possible recipe, I’ve made my own coconut oil lotion (recipe to follow at some point), and my…
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Marcy-Made Headband Giveaway!
I finally acquired my very first Marcy-Made headband. If you’re not familiar with Marcy-Made headbands, you should be! My friend Marcy makes THE CUTEST headbands! See? New for fall… ‘Carnival Ride!’ I’ve been following her on Facebook and been drooling over her cute headbands for a while now. And what with the half-dozen or so little girls in this house, and abundance of hair accessories everywhere, you’d think we of all…
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Forty-Eight Years.
Bourbon Street, 1965 Happy anniversary, mom and dad.