Sometimes I just luck into priceless moments. Because they’re certainly never the ones I attempt to create. (For example, see when Thomas the Train drowned in a Puddle of Mud.) Ali asked if we could go out to the porch swing the other morning. We were both still in our jammies and had nowhere to […]
Proper Vacation Bathroom Etiquette.
This is a conversation, of quite the typical variety, that took place last night. Important note: My parent’s bedroom and my Grandmother’s bedroom share a bathroom that is in between the bedrooms. (Dad heads to the bathroom) Mom: “Hey Vic…” Dad: “I’ll be back. I’m going to the bathroom.” Me, being sarcastic: “But Dad, it […]
A Lazy Beginning-Of-Vacation Post.
So this is a totally sub-par blog post made up of pictures and mere snippets of commentary. But hey – I’m on vacation. Lazy is what you get. Plus, no one has done anything terribly interesting yet. As soon as they do, believe me, I’ll let you know. Backing up to Wednesday morning, Oreo had […]
Free Vacation! With No Timeshare Seminars Required!!
We’re leaving today for our annual family vacation, which is sorta-kinda free. Which is more than sorta-kinda awesome. Here’s how my family does it: Instead of buying Christmas presents, Birthday presents, Mother’s Day presents, Father’s Day presents, or any other sort of gifting that should normally take place in a family, we deposit all the […]
Destination: Unknown.
Friday morning, I woke up to find an empty suitcase with this note on it: It was quite exhilarating – I have never received a note like this before! Well, the surprise we’re-going-out-of-town part, anyway. But the thought-out, typed-up, appropriately-bolded, planning-for-my-aggressive-curiosity-and-telling-me-not-to-ask-for-more-details part – oh yeah, that’s my husband. Ali was quite thrilled with this development […]
Easter Pictures, En Masse.
Ali got to have her first experience with dying Easter Eggs on Saturday, where she learned that it’s NOT such a great idea to suck on the spoon that stirred the dyes: And us parents learned that three year olds that are just starting to grasp the concept of the word “die” are very confused […]
Chasing Waterfalls.
So I suppose I was “blogging wolf” a bit when I complained about my lack of Spring Break, because Chris and I did disappear for the weekend. Not for the Spring Break that we don’t have, but to celebrate our (ninth!) anniversary a couple of weeks early. Ali happily stayed with Gramamma, where she got […]
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 […]
The Magic of Mommyhood.
It’s been a long week. My normally very emotionally stable and logical three year old has for some reason found the need to have multiple and quite sudden breakdowns. And for very little cause, such as the one about her best friend AJ, which, through tears, she told me tragically, “But she told me to […]