when east meets south
Being a mama is hard for a million and one reasons. And one of the biggest – for me at least – is when your kids go and get all big and grown up… and live hundreds of miles away. And are only are able to come visit a few times a year. Which makes the best part of my… Read More
It was good. It was crazy. And, in many ways, it was crazy good. We missed Zach so much, who wasn’t able to be here until after the New Year. (insert sad mama face here… I might have shed a few tears.) But, for the first time, we had Victoria’s boyfriend Jon join us on Christmas morning. And his presence… Read More
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. And we are finding a million ways that God is blessing us in this sweet season. One was an opportunity to go see the Alabama Ballet perform the Nutcracker. It was just mama and the girls, taking a little field trip to the Wright Center at Samford University. And, since our Clementine… Read More
Another day with the fluffy stuff – and this time, without commentary. Because we did all the snow things and had all the snow fun. And then came in and took hot baths and drank hot chocolate. And I did laundry for the next two days.
Snow was predicted. But, here in the south, snow can be a relative term. Down here, “snow” usually means a white dusting that melts before you can pull your boots on. It also means that every WalMart is sure to sell out of everything except anchovies and pickled pig feet. But on this day, we actually got snow. Not only… Read More
It’s the last day of November – a big month in the adoption world. It contains Orphan Sunday and is even slated as National Adoption Month. It is also a perfect reason to take an afternoon to pull on dresses and scribble smiley-faces on palms to capture this moment in time in our family. And while the kids may be… Read More
Today marks three years since we landed on US soil with our oh-so-fragile girl. Three years since God began changing my heart – teaching me, daily, how very perfect His plan was in knitting a child with Down syndrome into our family. I was so very afraid of all the ways I might fail her as a mother, of how… Read More
When it come to Halloween, we love to plan big around here. Real big. We had plans to all dress us as characters from Clementine’s current movie crush, Trolls. We even did a test run with some pink-spray-on-haircolor to see what we thought. In the end? We got busy. And lazy. And pretty much waited until the last minute to… Read More
This fall, Asher, Dalton, Sophie and Isabelle started taking a ceramics class at the Birmingham Museum of Art. It’s a fantastic class – the kids are able to create something new each week and bring home their masterpiece from the week before. The class lasts an hour and a half and the museum is half an hour away from our… Read More
Celebrating this girl is easy. Because she is so very easy to love. And she’s pretty dang easy to shop for, too. Because she wears her passions on her sleeve. Her passion for design is obvious in her wish-list: typography and design books, special pens and pencils… all the stuff the creative brain adores. The other thing she adores, possibly… Read More