When I was a little girl, my impression of Birmingham’s downtown area was a jumble of closed up, falling apart, and run-down buildings. My Mom would tell me of their grandness when she was a child, and I would daydream as to what it must have been like to dress up in my Sunday best […]
Pumpkin Fever.
Our week has been pretty low-key, thanks to a fever virus that Ali contracted quite suddenly at 2am Monday morning. Although, if a kid’s gonna get sick, I prefer the fever virus over all other ailments, because, a) parents/other adults seem to be completely immune to it, b) there are no other awful side effects […]
Token Germs.
I’m having trouble concentrating on writing this post. I’m sitting on the bed during Ali’s nap, but totally distracted by the view out the window. No, not the ocean view. The other window. The five gray-haired guys (and one woman) sitting, drinking beer, in the KIDDIE POOL. It seems to me to be an inherent […]
Sleep is for the Sleepy.
First of all, may I defend ourselves… We don’t vacation an extreme amount – I promise!! We just take quite a few small, weekend trips during the summer rather than any extended trips. We actually haven’t taken a week’s vacation since…our honeymoon 9 1/2 years ago. (From which we shamefully came home a day early […]
Three Totally Rocks.
There are a lot of great things about Ali being the old age of three. No more cleaning poo out of diapers is most definitely towards the top of the list… Full and total communication – also nice (although sometimes it might get a bit TOO full and TOO continuous-ad-infinitum for my taste, but no […]
We Interrupt BlogHer for this Very Important Thank You…
The blissfulness of Living in the South often goes underappreciated, both by those who live there and by those who have never had the pleasure. When I have told other people that I’m from Alabama this weekend, I can see the assumptions in their eyes: 130 degrees 365 days of the year, no indoor plumbing, […]
Communal Beach Living.
I’ve realized something during our vacation this week: our society has it all wrong. We’re making this parenting thing much harder than we have to. We need to go back to the days of communal living, whenever that was. Because you know what? Parenting three children with four parents is a WHOLE lot easier than […]
The Innocence of Childhood.
We arrived at the beach today, and due to some last minute mix-ups, we ended up with a major condo upgrade, thanks to our very hard-working rental agent, who I’m pretty sure did nothing for the last 24 hours except try to get us settled. When we arrived to the 19th floor of our amazing […]
Chauffeuring Royalty.
If you can hear my gasping for breath through this post, it’s because I’m running around the house trying to frantically finish up packing because my hubby has vacation fever and wants to leave tonight instead of tomorrow (which does have the benefit of no-during-nap car rides, so I’m not complaining a bit). We’re headed […]
The Magical Smoothie.
I’m a smoothie connoisseur. Fruit only – no milk or yogurt. Whether I’m making my own, buying them from the only Smoothie shop I deem acceptable (Planet Smoothie), or getting lucky and getting a really good one at some random place, there’s no greater joy than a good smoothie. But no smoothie that I’ve ever […]