We have houseguests this week! One of my favorite people, Barkley, and her son Woods are visiting with us from Charleston. Ali has been so excited about our houseguests that, while playing with them at lunch, she learned how to transform her two-eyed somewhat spastic wink… Into a very suave, grown-up, one-eyed wink.Hopefully she won’t […]
Framed.
We had a girl’s night on Saturday night, and our always-creative leader, April, turned us all into hopeless addicts of a new craft. I’m pretty sure that we all dreamed about our new love Saturday night, and have thought of nothing since then except how and when we would get our next fix. It […]
Random Snowiness and Uncle Joe’s Tot Locker
If you’re looking for the investigative report on Uncle Joe’s Tot Locker, you can find it by clicking here. We had an awesome time in our snow, which has all escaped now except for the remains of dozens of snowmen making it look like The Great Snowy Massacre of 2010. But, in what […]
Was Too Skeptical To Buy Milk and Bread. Going to Die.
So remember a few weeks ago when it had been below freezing for decades and there was actually ICE where water usually was and I totally believed them when they said it was going to snow and it totally didn’t? Well, the disappointment was just too great to risk again, so I convinced myself that […]
Moving Into A Castle.
Yes, that’s right – we moved into a Castle this week. It all started when our new chair for the living room came in: The chair, as exciting as it was, could not compare to the thrill of the massively ginormous box that housed it: Chris lovingly carved out windows and then showed Ali how […]
Freeze-Frame.
AJ came over Friday night for a sleepover, which makes me unable to resist pulling out and adding to my Sleepover Anthology: April 2008: November 2008:March 2009: June 2009: And finally, January 2010: Do you think they’ll still let me put them in matching jammies and take their pictures when they’re fifteen? And OhMyGoodness they […]
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 […]
When the Clock Strikes Twelve…
People ask a lot how our small group works. I’ve blogged before about the miracle of our 16 kids, six years old and under, somehow managing to all go to sleep while we meet, then when we get ready to leave at midnight, we wake them all up, take them home, and they go back […]
Celebratacular
After much angst about what sort of Birthday Cake to make or buy for Ali, I decided to go with my bloggy friend Erica’s idea and make Ice Cream Cone Cupcakes. However, on round one, I didn’t follow the directions very well and they erupted: Round two was much more attractively shaped: I got them […]
Threeday
Dear Ali, It’s been a wonderful year since your last birthday – I’ve loved the amazing adventures and conversations that we have had. Thankfully, we didn’t experience anything that could even be close to being called the Terrible Twos (although I know you’re making no promises about the Threes yet). In fact, you were, for […]