I take off and my feet pound the pavement, one after the other. I hear the familiar music in my ears and say “run, Elaine, just run.” I go and I go, feeling my breath and the air in my lungs. I feel the sweat begin to bead on my forehead. My ankle aches with…
Dusting off the blog & Miss Elaine-ous Monday
This is probably absolutely THE longest break I’ve taken from blogging since like 2009. Or 2008. It’s the truth, Ruth. Kinda sad, huh? It’s sort of funny the stages one goes through when deciding/needing/taking said break. First is the “Ah man, I totally need a break from my blog and twitter and FB! I’m gonna do it!”…
Still “Miss Elaine-ous”…
Our good friends are coming in from Texas for Thanksgiving. They arrive Tuesday evening. They have two boys, ages 8 and 3. It’s going to be a crazy, fun, loud 5 days. I ran 9 miles on Saturday morning in about an hour and 35 minutes (woot!) I ran from my house to a shopping…
You Gotta Have Friends – Miss Elaine-ous Monday
There are times when I still wonder what we are doing here. You know, living in this particular town, away from our families and most of the people and things we knew for years. But then we have a “little” Halloween party (more on that later this week) and I see my kids with their…
Longest Birthday Party Post EVAH! (K’s Party Pics!)
Katie’s birthday party went really well and was so fun! It turned out just like I wanted it to (except for, perhaps, the runny cake frosting but it was still extremely delicious so I consider that a success…). I knew I wanted to do an ice cream themed party and on a whim I called…
A Blessingway
On Sunday we celebrated a friend of mine who is due to have her third child soon. Instead of a shower we joined in her honor for a Blessingway. We pampered her with foot and hand rubs and a foot soak and gave her yummy things to eat and drink. We read a few poems…
BlogHer Top 12 (because top “tens” are boring, right?)
It’s hard to sum up my whole Blog Her experience this year because there was just SO. MUCH. So much walking. So much hugging. So much laughing. So much dancing. So much love. So much friendship. So much fun. So much swag (yes that too). So much picture-taking. But after going through the photos that were taken…
Have y’all heard about this conference happening the first weekend in August?
It was very questionable whether I was going to attend BlogHer this year or not. I debated the expense of it all and since it’s the week before The B Man starts school, I wasn’t sure the timing was so great either. But after Tim gave me my “bonus” and I found an awesome additional sponsor,…
trees, beautiful plants and little cute babies – You Capture
I did my best to cover all the topics that Noah put out there for us for You Capture this week. Trees (and clouds!) Beautiful plants Little cute babies (okay, I didn’t take this one, my friend Kim did, but I still had to post it). Isn’t her baby boy so sweet? Trust me, he is….
You Capture – Summertime
To me, summertime means going to special places and doing extra special things. Like hanging out at LegoLand, for instance. The boys and I had a fabulous time with our friends (K hung out with Tim’s mom while we went), even though we had to wait a bit to get in (God bless the genius…