In an 10th hour feat of parental awesome–because 11th hour would’ve meant I bought these costumes today instead of yesterday afternoon…like last year–costumes were acquired and all was right with the world. It was a Halloween miracle. Emma and I crashed Joshua’s school party this morning because that’s one of the perks of this thing…
i love my kids
Mom With A Camera
I’ve been trying to get fall pictures of the kids (and the four of us) for two weeks now. The camera shutter remote is lost somewhere in my house and it’s driving me mad that I can’t find it. Bah. The only thing I really want to be able to do with my camera is…
Down By The River
The kids and I took a little Labor Day road trip to visit my family down by the Georgia coast. Saturday we had a big family cookout. (So much food.) It was good to get away for a few days and see aunts and uncles and cousins we don’t see very often. It felt good…
A great day
Today was a great day. There’s been a lot of not great around here this week. Cranky kids and a cranky mom and we were all just cranky. “Grumpos,” as Joshua has taken to calling us. And he was right. But not today. Today was the kind of day my heart needed. The kind of…
Gone Fishin’
You know when your week gets off to a start that is less than stellar and you spend the whole day trying to do ANYTHING to break the funk and the only thing that will break the funk is the one thing you can’t seem to get which is sleep? Yes. That. That was my…