Start with a Three Week Old Baby: Who, despite his preciousness, does not sleep good on Friday night, therefore also adding in one Very-Sleep-Deprived-Three-Weeks-Post-Partum-Mommy. On Saturday morning, stir in a Four Year Old’s Birthday, starting and ending with complete sugar overload: (Sugar Overload shown in recipe provided by Krispy Kreme and my amazingly talented friend […]
Four.
Today is your last day of being three, something you’ve been counting down to for weeks, if not the entire year! You learned and grew a lot this year, including working on your sporting abilities, …but really realizing that it was much more fun to just sit and have girl time. Your need-for-organization-and-categorization (which you […]
On Having a Social Media Baby: A Review.
As I’m sure you noticed, I made a conscious effort to share my entire pregnancy and birthing experience on social media via blogging, Facebook, and Twitter – at times possibly sharing more than some people wanted to know. I know that some of you thought I was crazy to give social media any attention while […]
O Lego Town of Bethlehem…
On the Saturday that I went into labor with Noah, Chris and Ali set out on an epic undertaking, combining Chris’ favorite Daddy activity with the Holiday Season… In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. And everyone went to their own town to […]
Christmas in Images.
I do hope to be back to my “regular” blogging schedule at some point in the near future, but there’s something about having major abdominal surgery plus complications (and having staples still in your belly from it – very chafing if you wondered), being in the hospital for five days, having a brand new member […]
Noah’s Arrival
Spoiler: This post is a Long Birth Story interspersed and ending with Unbelievably Cute Baby Pictures to help detract from the traumasticity of the contents herein – at least for my sake. As I’m finally on a low enough dose of pain meds that I can type without the screen doing funky swirly things (and […]
Introducing…
Noah James. 12/19/10, 3:43 pm 7 Pounds, 9 Ounces. 21.5 Inches Happy and handsome and I think he likes me a whole lot! The birthing process was quite traumatic and left all my doctors scratching their heads as to what happened and why (I’ll write about it later), but every moment since has been beautiful […]
Thankful.
For sweet smiles… And even the not-so-sweet not-so-smiles. For Chubby Cheeks, even when I don’t like my own chubby cheeks. For memories made with friends, And memories made with family… Even when those memories…rot. For a big sister’s excitement, For a husband’s amazing love, And for getting to watch my daughter enjoy that same love. […]
Pure Magic – The Bright Star
With a nickname like The Magic City, you would expect there to be many magical places in the Birmingham area. And there definitely are – the top of Vulcan, The Patio at The Club, Argyle Road overlooking the city at night, and Sloss Furnaces, to name a few. But my pick for the most magical […]
C (hristmas) before E (aster) but NEVER before T (hanksgiving).
There are two types of people in the world: Holiday Liberalists and The Holiday Police. The Liberalest of the Holiday Liberalists consist of the people who choose to start playing Christmas music in stores, put the decorations out in malls, and start selling Christmas Candy, all on the day after Halloween. (Oh, and of course […]