It was in college, the first time she laid eyes on him. She walked into a staff meeting for her new on-campus job at the college gym, and there he was. Tall, black hair, blue eyes. And he had on those Wranglers. Country boy, she thought. I like it. But lots of girls had their eye on him, as was bound to happen. Tall guys with black hair and blue…
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That Time I Online Dated for 48 Hours.
Listen, no offense to those of you who LOOOOVE your online dating scene. I get it… more and more of you are meeting your True Love on Match or Harmony or the FARMERS one, for the love (snort…. have you seen those commercials???), and that’s fine. Great. Nothing wrong with that. Whatever. God bless you and may you live happily ever after with the farmer of your dreams. But let…
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How I Got from There to Here
Hi friends! Gosh, how I’ve missed you all! Some of you have been with me since the humble beginnings of this little ‘ole blog back in 2006 when I had bought a certain Blue House, all the way through the heyday of a shocking 115,000+ visitors a month, and I have loved having you along for the crazy ride. I made SO MANY real friends through this blog that I…
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Letting Go of Plan C.
It’s 4-something in the morning as I’m sitting down to write this. That’s my normal time these days to be out of bed, sitting in my living room, talking to God and reading my Bible. Not that I wouldn’t LOVE to be in my bed right now, but like everything else lately, nothing is going according to my own plans, especially not my plan to get a decent night’s sleep…
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Lies, and more lies.
Once upon a time, I met a girl who became my INSTANT BFF. I mean, this INSTANT connection happened between us, where I’d say, “I love XYZ,” and she’d gasp and exclaim, “ME TOO!” And I’d talk about music, and my favorite songs were her favorite ones, too. It was that way with ALL THE THINGS… every idea I had, she thought was brilliant; everything I liked to do, she…
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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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I Want to be a Nurse.
I think it started sometime back in high school, when I was trying to decide what I wanted to be when I grew up. Seems like nursing crossed my mind more than once. I don’t know why I didn’t do it. Probably because I spent my college years skipping haphazardly through sixteen different majors… Two different times during my college career I stuck my toe into the ‘nursing school’ water, took…
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The Best Dern Tootin’ Texas Style Chili. My
Y’all. I have a confession to make, and it’s embarrassing: up until recently, I didn’t have a Texas Chili recipe because I always made my chili… from a mix. I know. I know! It was a shameful secret I lived with until an out-of-state relative called me to ask for my chili recipe, because she just *KNEW* that out of ALL the people she knew in Texas, I’d be…
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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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{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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