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This week has been glorious so far! The girls started Mother’s Day Out on Tuesday. This is Ella’s third year but Gracie’s first. She seemed a little confused when we dropped her off but she did well. Here are some pics from the first day. Having these few hours twice a week has given me […]

 11 years ago today, I was a 24 year old girl in a hospital bed. Now I’m the mom of the most precious 11 year old boy in the world. My sweet Nolen. Last night Ben bought some Mrs. Baird’s Grab ‘n Go Donuts for Nolen’s breakfast this morning. We thought that would be a […]

I’m finally carving out some “me” time at home to blog. It’s been a wild and crazy couple of weeks, so something had to give. Now, time to catch up. Our vacation was…well…interesting. I’ll spare you the gory details and leave it with the vow that family trips are out of the question for at […]

And Topical Storm Erin is heading straight for us….wouldn’t you know it! I woke up with the news that we can pretty much forget about sunshine until Sunday. That put a little damper on our plans but we’ll get over it. Today was basically all about getting groceries, hanging out and getting some much needed […]

Well, not really. But maybe soon…. We’re leaving for Rockport, TX in about…oh…5 hours or so. Am I packed? No. Are my kids packed? No. Am I done working? Heck no! Instead I’m blogging at 2 am and watching QVC on the computer. I’ve never personally bought anything off QVC…but my sweet friend Virginia has […]

  When I was 10 years old, I went to church camp. My parents dropped me off in a white 1977 Chevy Malibu Station Wagon with a strip of brown faux wood down the side and picked me up in a brand spanking new 1982 white Chevy Suburban. This was way before Suburbans were cool. […]

I promised myself that I would blog before the weekend was up…so in typical last minute fashion, here I am. We had a really relaxing but productive weekend at home. My hope was that my house would be spotless by now, but instead it’s messier than ever. We cleaned out the middle bedroom that we’ve […]

…but the full recap will have to wait. Amanda, the official photographer, is off in the woods camping so I have no pics! I can’t possibly tell the full story without my (I mean her) pictures! It was an awesome trip. The best I can remember. Everything is falling in place. God is awesome! One […]

**Note, I started writing this post on Tuesday but due to events detailed below, I was unable to complete it until today. 🙂 This morning I told Ella, “How ’bout I make cinnamon toast again this morning!” to which she replied, “No, mommy! I don’t want the fire to come out of the oven” This […]

I received an email from an old friend with a link to a podcast that’s a must listen! Melody Ross is an icon in the scrapbook industry. I first learned about Chatterbox when we opened Scrappy’s in 1998. At that time, she had two little books of sayings for journaling and 3 journaling templates. All […]