Since mine and Chris’ relationship originated from our shared love of music, one of our goals this year was to get our guitars back and out play more often with Ali. And so, we had a good old fashioned family singalong a couple of nights ago. Although this video is a little longer than I […]
Chaos Pushes Family of Four to Move to New York!!
I know that I’ve done enough talk about our small group to make you sick of it. So I won’t rehash and explain how it all works – I’ll just remind you of the stats, for the purposes of this blog: 6 couples, 14 kids under 6 years old, and 2 more on the way. […]
My Trip to the Torture Chamber.
So I heeded all of your advice and went to the doctor yesterday. I’ve been meaning to go to a real, live Ear Nose and Throat specialist for my phlegm for months but just haven’t made the time. However, it’s gotten much worse lately (and I really prefer being able to breathe when laying down […]
Tube Dating
Chris and I had a “date day” Saturday – Ali went to Gramamma’s early in the morning and spent the night, so we had all day to spend together. Ali, of course, was absolutely thrilled to spend the day and night with Gramamma, but for the first time in her life, she was quite curious […]
Weapon of Mass Destruction: A Purple Balloon.
We went to an especially friendly grocery store the other day, and they gave Ali a purple balloon. Sure, I was a bit worried, what with the fate of the last purple balloon (she still asks where that balloon went anytime we drive near the scene of the crime). We left the grocery store, and […]
Toddler Experiments Gone Awry
I have mentioned the miracle of our Small Group before, but just for a refresher, we have a group of six couples that meet every Thursday night. Between the six pairs, we have 14 kids and 2 more on the way. (Obviously, Chris and I are in last place in this race. And happy to […]
Parking, Dating, and Baking the Deceased.
I’m still recovering from my Blogher Adventures, I must admit. I’m This week has been made up of day of dizzying tiredness, followed by a day of relative normalness where I thought I was recovered, only to be followed by a day of dizzying tiredness. If you can have jetlag from flying within your time […]
Blupdate? Blogdate? Upblog?
We are currently on our way home from the beach. I’m sure I’ll post more pictures later in the week, but there’s just a ton of tidbits that I haven’t had the chance to share on here in the past few days, so this post is the ever-random update post. First of all, if you’ve […]
What do Bloggers, Models, Cowboys and Indians Have in Common? This Post.
Yesterday, Ali and I attended/hosted our second Alabama Blogger meet-up: We had an awesome time visiting with everyone, and Ali had a BLAST playing with and talking to everyone (especially Gina, Lianne, Amy, and Valerie). In fact, she was perfectly happy, until we left: No, it wasn’t because the meet-up was over. . . it […]
Trampolinic Philosophy
We are enjoying our new trampoline immensely, thankyouforasking. And besides one slight moment of OhCrapMyDadWasRight Panic when I mysteriously got a pulled muscle in my back that lasted for a couple of days, no one has gotten injured on it. The placement of our trampoline is under the big tree in our backyard for shade, […]