We’re in Orange Beach this weekend visiting Chris’ Aunt Kitty and Uncle Leo. They live on the bay, so one of the things that Leo wanted to do this weekend was get their boat in the water for spring, and in so doing, take Ali for her first ever boat ride. Granted, it’s crazy-windy on […]
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 […]
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 […]
Amazingly Racing Into Trouble.
Our Church Youth Group had a Retreat this past weekend, and somehow I got dubbed as responsible enough to be a driver for the Senior Girl’s team of The Amazing Race, which included clues, riddles, assignments, and adventure. Our clues led us all over town, including Vulcan, our city’s pants-less statue, famous for mooning the […]
A New Kind of Roll Tiding.
We took Ali to the Alabama/Arkansas Gymnastics Meet Friday night. It was fun for me to actually go to a sporting event in Tuscaloosa that I really could get into – after all, 10 seasons of football games should buy me a few events of my choice, right? But Chris got rewarded to taking us […]
Attempts at Capturing The Moment.
We always take Ali to get her portraits made around her birthday (you know, because I don’t take enough pictures of her throughout the year). This year, my sister-in-law Lindsay and I were talking about it, and I had this Wonderfully! Bright! Idea! To combine photos!! We thought… We’ll get some of all of the […]
For Better or Worse, In Football and in Health…
Chris and I started out our Saturday morning leading up to The Big Game eating breakfast in the lobby of our hotel, the Embassy Suites. (We were at the Embassy Suites because the Hyatt Place was a horrible hotel and canceled our reservations along with 26 other people’s after they were already confirmed AND paid […]
Alabama, Meet Greece.
Chris and I are in Atlanta this weekend for the SEC Championship game. (At this point, I WOULD say that I am fully prepared to comfort my husband in his mourning after the game tonight, but I already got roasted on Facebook for saying that. It’s just that my opinion about the facts trump my […]
Week of Firsts: a Fail and a Win.
I’m not quite sure what kind of vendetta I had against myself when I planned two brand new, somewhat invasive experiences for Ali within 48 hours of each other. Seriously. I know this child. I know she doesn’t like change. So why stack this week’s odds against me? The First First: Wednesday – The Dentist. […]
Dear Gramamma: Please Ship Ali to Rising Fawn. We’re Not Coming Home.
At the moment, I am sitting on the second floor porch of a beautiful antebellum-styled house a couple hours north of Birmingham, pretending that I’m in Gone With The Wind. Or, I suppose what GWTW WOULD have been with the perk of indoor plumbing. And wireless internet. Oh – and no civil war. At any […]