Sometimes I just luck into priceless moments. Because they’re certainly never the ones I attempt to create. (For example, see when Thomas the Train drowned in a Puddle of Mud.) Ali asked if we could go out to the porch swing the other morning. We were both still in our jammies and had nowhere to […]
Ali’s Top 10: Vacation Edition.
10. Making biscuits with Pop.. In all shapes… Even if she DID have to share the fun with Eli, or as she named him for the weekend, “The Short Friend With the Curly Hair.” 9. Pillow fighting with Gramamma, Nick, and The Short Friend With the Curly Hair. 8. The Tide Pool, also known as […]
Proper Vacation Bathroom Etiquette.
This is a conversation, of quite the typical variety, that took place last night. Important note: My parent’s bedroom and my Grandmother’s bedroom share a bathroom that is in between the bedrooms. (Dad heads to the bathroom) Mom: “Hey Vic…” Dad: “I’ll be back. I’m going to the bathroom.” Me, being sarcastic: “But Dad, it […]
Escaping From Aldridge Prison.
I, along with my friends Ashley and Lydia, lead a LifeGroup of High School girls together. We’ve been with these girls since they were sophomores, and now they’re about to graduate. We’ve formed some tight bonds, and now they’re all moving away and leaving us to go to college. (sniff.) But despite the fact that […]
Kneetastrophe
We went on a walk through the neighborhood Tuesday night on the actual ROADS, which I thought surely that would keep anyone else from injuring themselves. However, Ali was quite excited that we were walking with our neighbor Alice, (whom Ali adores with all her heart, to the point that she sings about her quite […]
Rubbish Trail.
Subtitle: Never Underestimate Your Own Back Yard. We live in a very suburban residential area. You have to drive through five minutes of nothing but neighborhood to arrive at our house from the main road, and there’s not much space within all that that isn’t occupied by houses, front yards, or back yards. However, we’d […]
If I Had My Wedding to Do Over Again, I’d be Hispanic.
Seeing as how the weather is at that perfect point of brand new warmth and beauty, paired with the fact that pollen week seems to be over, we absolutely had to spend our Saturday outdoors. We started with an outdoor lunch at Chez Lulu. I don’t know about you, but we adhere to some pretty […]
Webster’s Dictionary: Toddler Edition.
Monday. Ali woke up singing. I let her sing a for few minutes until her song began to downgrade into a whine, then I went to get her. She was holding a bunch of her stuffed animals… “Good morning!!! What were you singing about?” “Well, I was singing a song about flowers and love to […]
Resurrection Respite
Life has been a frenzy of chaos, activity, and responsibilities lately, so to be able to slow down and focus on the Resurrection, I am going to take a blog break for the rest of the weekend. I’ll be back sometime on Monday, hopefully refreshed, refocused, and renewed. I’ll leave you with a few pictures […]
Rachel: Baby Whisperer, LLC.
Tessa and I have a special relationship. (She’s the little one, not the one measuring her gargantuan head or the one posing for her Miss America publicity shots.) It’s not like we even spend that much time alone together, but the time we do spend together is quite productive. Episode One: Septemberish. Ashley left her […]