If any of you had any slight deja vu feelings come over you while reading my Halloween Post (I Love My Husband Even When He’s An…) earlier this week, you weren’t crazy. There is, actually, a possible explanation as to why I would want my husband to dress up as a donkey, and evidence that […]
The Three Little Pigs: A Modern-Day Adaptation.
No, this isn’t a profound commentary on society – Philosophy wasn’t my favorite college course, if you haven’t noticed by now. This is simply what my imagination does to entertain itself while reading children’s books for the ten thousand five hundred and seventy third time… Once upon a time there were three little pigs who […]
Life In the Not-So-Wild.
So I have a friend that got peed on by a Lion this week. At the zoo. At MY city’s zoo. And my first thought (after asking her if he was a well-hydrated lion or was she left smelling like thick, nasty Lion Pee all day), was “Why couldn’t that have happened to ME??!! It […]
If Only I Could Have Put a Bag Over That Bag Over My Head…
Here in Alabama, certain seasons change a lot quicker than the rest of the country. For instance, our summers usually begin somewhere around late February….and football season begins somewhere in May. Okay, maybe not for everyone, but Chris most definitely starts his preparations and excitement at the beginning of the summer…as if he can already […]
The Baby Book of Burning Questions
When Ali was born, my Mom allowed me to take out a semi-permanent loan of my baby book for comparison purposes. And I’m quite positive that she is going to promptly cancel my loan after this post. If not from this post, then in fear that I would one day post “The Bathtub Pic” of […]
We All Live in a Yellow Atmosphere…
It’s Pollen Week in Birmingham. Maybe it is in Alabama as a whole, or the world as a whole. I don’t know. But I do know it’s most definitely pollen week here. Pollen Week is THE week when every flowering and non-flowering tree in the city (and we have a lot of them) conspire together […]
April Fool’s Day: aka National Child Trauma Day.
So I’ve been trying to think of a good blog April Fool’s joke for weeks. And I’ve got nothin’. My inspiration has just completely flown out the window, along with any small amount of organization, neatness, and stay-on-top-of-everything-in-life-ation that I usually have. I LOVE April Fools. I really love practical jokes in general, as I […]
In Sickness and in Health, by Scratch or by Box…
My family is a “from scratch” kind of family. As I was growing up, we ate three homemade meals a day together, all made lovingly from scratch, as were any desserts that were ever made. (At least that’s how I remember it – albeit potentially a bit idealistic-childhood-memory-esque.) And my Mom wasn’t the only cook […]
A Tortured Romance.
I told the story of our cat, Oreo’s rebellious peeing-on-the-bed teenage years a while back. However, I left out an important part of her saga. If you don’t remember the original story and don’t want to go read it, the basic idea is that Oreo has an odd and unexplained abhorrence for crutches. And since […]
Rachel, Child Not-So-Star.
The year was 1987. I was six years old. There was a movie being filmed in town, and they needed antique cars. My Dad and Granddad both had Model Ts, so they were loaning them to the producers for the movie. And, it happened to be my lucky day that they needed some children as […]