This feels like our first real summer with kids. I’m not sure exactly why, except that maybe this is the first summer after a “real” year of school, and it’s also the first summer that we’ve had two KIDS, not a kid and a baby. And we’ve been relishing in it. Noah’s been learning a […]
A Two-Seater and A One-Seater.
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
The Slippery Slope into Chocoholism.
I discovered chocolate last weekend. Real chocolate. Chocolate like I’ve never even come close to tasting before. And I want to pull you down with me. if you follow me on Twitter, you probably hated me all weekend. (I know this because several of you told me so.) And that’s okay. I would have hated […]
50 Restaurants in Crappy Photos: Round Three.
For a quick recap, the purpose of this series is to eat at fifty restaurants that I’ve never visited before in and around Birmingham (although I’ve been known to break my own rules.) Feel free to catch up with Round One and Round Two. Although we usually eat local, chains aren’t against the rules, and […]
There’s No Place Like Home.
This is another guest post by Chris the Husband, Contributing Editor and all around good guy. I don’t know a ton about cars. Or racing. But I hear that we have a super cool race track here in Birmingham. Barber Motorsports Park has a giant motorcycle museum, a road course, and tons or beautiful scenery. […]
For The Budding Car Guy.
Noah’s favorite book in all the world is this one: He has a name for every car on every page, and can quiz me tirelessly on the location of each one of them. The basic idea is that all of the pages are snapshots of one grander layout of rows and rows of cars. And, […]
When Toddler Dreams Come True.
Last Saturday, we took Noah and Ali to A Day Out with Thomas. We were cautiously thrilled for a redo, since we took Ali when she was two, and she had a severe form of Baby-PMS that day. In an attempt to do things as opposite as possible as we had done with Ali (to […]
While We Were Out.
Chris and I weren’t the only ones who vacationed for our anniversary. The kids went to my parents, and from the photos my Mom sent me, they relaxed in exactly the same manner that we did. I mean seriously. What the heck?? WHY DON’T MY CHILDREN STAY THAT STILL WHEN THEY’RE WITH ME?? I realize […]
Circus Dreams and Ambitions.
The last time we went to the Circus, Ali had just turned four, and Noah was a very impressive five weeks old. For the last two years, Noah has been bitter about the fact that the only time we ever allowed him to experience such, his eyesight wasn’t developed enough to see the row in […]