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
How can it already be four years since he graduated high school? And now he’s gone and graduated college. Done with school… and officially a grown up. We had such fun road-tripping to Dallas for the graduation. And celebrating, and visiting with Grandma, and looking at old photos, and laughing over queso at Mia’s, and roaming the Target aisles just… 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.
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
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
This year for my birthday, I skipped the practical. Leapt over the moderately impractical. And headed straight for the crazy. Yup. Chickens. 15 of them. The *15* wasn’t part of the plan, though… honestly I was thinking about half as many. But when you order chicks by mail it’s not quite like Amazon. So, at the recommendation of the nice… Read More
We kinda like this place. Especially me. And so, about once a year or so, I pull the mama card and make everyone brush their hair and put on real clothes and let me take a bagillion pictures of them. Give or take. One mama hen with all her babies, together. This trip was precipitated by the fact that my… Read More
Such a Christmas. We celebrated similarly to how we’ve done it the last few years. Pared down our giving (and asking) and were very intentional about how we spent our time together all December long. And the best part? This little one. Home and celebrating Christmas. Her very first. And despite a tentative beginning, she caught on pretty quickly. And… Read More
We are a family of 15. We don’t go all the places we used to. For the last few years we’ve been taking two cars most places because we outgrew the old Sprinter a few kiddos back. We began praying over a solution as a family, and I asked for prayer from my prayer partners as well, knowing God could… Read More