So as you know, we took Ali with us to the baby doctor last week. We didn’t tell her that I was pregnant until we were already there…at which point she booted me off the exam table because she started to feel a bit queasy:I can relate to that feeling. As fun as it was […]
Free Vacation! With No Timeshare Seminars Required!!
We’re leaving today for our annual family vacation, which is sorta-kinda free. Which is more than sorta-kinda awesome. Here’s how my family does it: Instead of buying Christmas presents, Birthday presents, Mother’s Day presents, Father’s Day presents, or any other sort of gifting that should normally take place in a family, we deposit all the […]
Breakfast Globetrotting.
Ali and I took a somewhat long school “break” during the Winteriest part of Winter, partially because we were busy, and partially because I just didn’t have a lot of motivation for much of anything else. (Darn winteriest winter ever. It effected me greatly.) Now that it’s nearly summertime and she should rightfully have a […]
Potato Avgolemono..A Real! Live! Brand! New! Recipe!
We always do a Greek-Based family lunch for Easter. It includes amazingly tasty favorites like Roasted Lamb with Egg and Lemon Sauce and Spanakopetas: If you want our family recipe for these delicious Greek Treats, it can be found here. Anyway, Mom was making the Lamb, Spanakopetas, and Strawberry Pie for the big day, and […]
Spring Break Means Nothing To Me.
…except that it means that half of you all are off, gallivanting around on the warm sunny beaches of the world while I’m stuck in The Neverending Winter. I’m pretty sure God typoed and selected “Alaska” instead of “Alabama” on the pull-down menu when he put in our Weather Order for this year. But back […]
Clay Play
My Aunt Tena of Earthborn Pottery and Cahaba Clayworks hosted myself and a dozen other bloggers Saturday to let us experience pottery making first hand. In all the years that Tena has done pottery, I’ve never taken one of her classes, and so I’ve been SO excited about trying it out! I had no idea […]
Framed.
We had a girl’s night on Saturday night, and our always-creative leader, April, turned us all into hopeless addicts of a new craft. I’m pretty sure that we all dreamed about our new love Saturday night, and have thought of nothing since then except how and when we would get our next fix. It […]
Random Snowiness and Uncle Joe’s Tot Locker
If you’re looking for the investigative report on Uncle Joe’s Tot Locker, you can find it by clicking here. We had an awesome time in our snow, which has all escaped now except for the remains of dozens of snowmen making it look like The Great Snowy Massacre of 2010. But, in what […]
Coloring Oneself: Perfect for Narcissistic Toddlers (And their Mommies).
I finally got around to a project I’ve been wanting to try for a while – making Ali coloring pages of some favorite photos. And actually, it was quite a bit easier than I had anticipated. I have Photoshop (the cheap version), but I’m pretty sure a similar effect can be found in most photo […]
Curly Haired Toddler, Winter Edition.
Back in May, I had my first Curly Toddler Style Breakthrough, when I finally figured out how to take Ali’s frizzy crazy hair to nice curls. However, I have yet again been stumped. This time, it wasn’t the frizzy, looks-like-a-balloon-was-rubbed-on-her-head problem – quite the opposite. Since winter got here, a lot of her curls have […]