This is another guest post by Chris the Husband, Contributing Editor and all around good guy. I don’t know a ton about cars. Or racing. But I hear that we have a super cool race track here in Birmingham. Barber Motorsports Park has a giant motorcycle museum, a road course, and tons or beautiful scenery. […]
Blog Roll
The Rise and Fall of a Ballerina’s Career.
For the past nine months, Ali, Noah and I have been making weekly treks to Ali’s ballet class. It took us a while to find our place in this world, and Ali has gone back and forth, wavering between whether ballet is the most fun she has all week or something to be avoided at […]
For The Budding Car Guy.
Noah’s favorite book in all the world is this one: He has a name for every car on every page, and can quiz me tirelessly on the location of each one of them. The basic idea is that all of the pages are snapshots of one grander layout of rows and rows of cars. And, […]
The Complete Saga of Sam the Cat.
Last Friday evening, as the kids were getting ready for bed and I was addictively glued to CNN while the police were finally closing in on a stowaway in a boat in someone’s backyard in Boston, Chris went down to our garage for a minute. In the process, he inadvertently created a stowaway situation of […]
Giveaway: Adventure With Us at Red Mountain Park! {$100 Value}
As soon as Chris and I first heard of the Red Mountain Park Project, we were elated. We’ve been known to explore random wooded parts of our city just to say that we could, so a giant park (1,200 acres!) with multiple trails and scenic views…we couldn’t wait for it to open. And then it […]
What A Mommy Wants.
So Ladies. Mother’s Day is quickly approaching. I asked Siri about the specifics, and she reported duly: And, you know, I’m not all about encouraging Mothers to be selfish and to demand what is theirs and all, but MOTHER’S DAY IS OURS. I’m not sure which is better: having children too young to understand the […]
When Toddler Dreams Come True.
Last Saturday, we took Noah and Ali to A Day Out with Thomas. We were cautiously thrilled for a redo, since we took Ali when she was two, and she had a severe form of Baby-PMS that day. In an attempt to do things as opposite as possible as we had done with Ali (to […]
Because We Need to Laugh. Or at Least Snort.
It’s hard being a writer at times like these, because there is so much tragedy, so much seriousness, and so much going through my mind. Yet my thoughts are not coherent enough to have anything helpful to add to any of it. And when I have nothing worth saying, I’ve found it’s better to say […]
The Close of, and The Best of Yittle Fings.
On my now somewhat defunct tertiary blog (this being the primary blog, Alabama Bloggers being secondary, and B-Sides being tertiary,) the best thing I ever did was run a series of forty-seven posts called Yittle Fings. Spanning from July 2009 to August 2012, I recorded all of the most funny, ridiculous, random, and profound things […]