I am not the best at adulting. My office looks like The Room of Requirement, my dishes are never completely done, and the other day I looked up from bed and saw a pile of clean diapers on our dresser – and Noah has been potty-trained for at least two years. Chris joins me in […]
Epic Camping: The Origins
So I went camping last weekend. This camping trip, as you will come to understand, deserves a three-part series. Part one, the origin – how it came to be that I tent camped for the first time with children. Oh and did I mention – without my husband. In part two, I will share with […]
What Happens at Mom’s Running Club.
A few months ago, I launched a running club for the moms in our church community group. On a given Sunday afternoon, we congregate in a pack of 2-5 moms, where we jog, walk, run, and talk. The talking part is what we do best. We discuss our kids, our husbands (all good stuff obviously), […]
Fully Endorsed Anxiety.
These are the things I worry about: stray cats slipping into my car while I’m unloading groceries, my phone becoming sentient and turning on the camera at inopportune times and live-streaming those inopportune times to the world, and the consequences of endorsing my husband’s name on the backs of checks. Every now and then, he’ll […]
Why I Quit Bathing My Kids.
My friends of the Daily Child Bather Variety (which thankfully are rare) cannot understand people like me. They’re still in denial that the facts prove that most people are indeed like me but since I’m open and vocal about my anti-bathing stance, I must take the brunt of their shock. But here’s a little story […]
Top Secrets Learned about Rachel.
Here’s the thing. When you’ve never met someone in real life or even had a single phone conversation with them, but then come and live at their house for five days, you learn a lot about them in a short amount of time. In a normal friendship, these peculiarities are spread out over such a […]
What Really Happened In Eufaula.
This past weekend, I felt compelled to return to the scene of the crime. My crime. The Place: Lakepoint State Park in Eufaula, Alabama. The time: One year ago. My conviction: Utter selfishness. My sentence: a year of guilt. I never really told my story. How I actually felt that weekend…because it would have been […]
The FaceTune Challenge.
So. Remember my post about using Facetune, and then feeling guilty for making my skin so smooth? I eventually did feel guilty enough to replace all of my profile pictures with the unedited images – they looked more like me, anyway. And the skin-so-smooth-I-haven’t-actually-had-that-since-I-was-seven was starting to annoy me. But one night as I was […]
That Time I Fought Captain Hook and Won (Sorta).
On Sunday night, Chris and I watched the next to last episode of Once Upon a Time’s Season Three. It featured a lot of Captain Hook (Also known as the beautiful and charming Killian Jones), along with a good deal of time travel. My subconscious was greatly impacted by these things. The first time I […]