This weekend we bonded as a family in a few ways, including three of us running a 5K together. Yes, a family that runs together also gets king cake at the end together, at least where we live and during the Mardi Gras season… 😉 In this case it’s calories out, calories in – in…
Be Mine
“I miss you… will you be my Valentine?” Tim sent me these words on Wednesday of this week, via text, as he waited in an airport far away to board a plane and come home to me, to us. I am not completely sure what about them made me begin to cry almost instantly after…
Valentine’s Old School Blogging!
This month Tamara and I decided to go with the Love/Valentine’s theme for Old School Blogging. We came up with the questions together but I have to give her full credit for the “Say Anything” one below, which I think is so great! Tamara is a newer blog friend and I am SO glad I…
Oh…Barbie…
My friend Audra and I used to like to play Barbies at her house. One time her mother walked in on us playing and we both had our “Ken’s” on top of two of the “Barbies” (my favorite one was actually named Samantha, by me) and they were “kissing”. She came into the room and…
Super Easy Valentine Art
I have a little bit of left-over scrapbooking paper. And when I say a “little bit” I actually a whole heck of a lot. And yet I still buy more. (Please don’t tell my husband). I still like to paper craft but honestly I do not do it very often. I always think in my…
Hamster Bamster
What do a nine year-old boy (almost ten!) and a 4 year-old little girl have in common? Some majorly fierce love for the family hamster, that’s what. Y’all, this is seriously THE most loved-on hamster on the planet, I mean it. She has the opportunity to hang out in the horse barn… …and…
Disappearing Marshmallow Brownies (and some improvisation)
When I was the age that we would now categorize as a “tween”, my mom found a recipe for Disappearing Marshmallow Brownies. Back then she would have gotten it out of a church cook book, a magazine or the local paper. You know, instead of Pinterest. She made them the first time when my…
We were not expecting you…
Old Man Winter found his way to South Louisiana, which I can tell you right now, from my four winters here, does not usually happen. Earlier this week he took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in the swamp. Maybe he was craving gumbo… Anyway, he brought with him freezing temps typicllay unknown around these parts…
The Happy Mama Movement Begins!
My kids surprise me sometimes. I mean, actually, they surprise me a lot. And of course not always in a way I want to be surprised. Sometimes they come around the corner in a Batman mask to purposely surprise me and I pee a little. That way is definitely not my favorite. And sometimes they…
MomCom 2014
Y’all know I love to go to conferences. It is there that I get to see my friends and sleep with them and eat yummy food and learn things. Things I did not even necessarily know I wanted to learn. When I won a scholarship ticket to Mom Com in Austin I was so thrilled…