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One of the very best things about you is that you are completely incapable of withholding emotion from your face and I, as your mother, know your face better than anyone.  I have spent many an hour tracing the perfect little triangle of freckles on your right cheek and twirling my fingers in your perfectContinue reading “child, you are magnificent”

Day two greetings from Hocking Hills, Ohio! (So perhaps technically it’s day four in Ohio, but it’s day two in Hocking Hills and day two packed full of fun and adventure, even a little bison.) Day one can be found here. Today started out with the best darn diner omelette I have ever had followedContinue reading “ho-HI-ho day two: planes, trains and automocastles”

ho-HI-ho: noun. What Addie called Ohio when she was 3. ********* Today Addie declared she is going to become a professional naturalist, live in Ohio and take people on hikes and show them what plants they can eat, specifically the sourwood because that one is her favorite. Surprisingly enough, Addie spent the morning with aContinue reading “ho-HI-ho: day one”

Cody and I are pretty average people, but together? Man, do we produce some swell offspring. We’re like ketchup and mayo, put us together and we make fry sauce. (If you don’t like fry sauce, lie to me, I can’t bear the thought of someone not liking fry sauce.) Perhaps peanut butter and chocolate isContinue reading “we’re doing okay. i’m doing okay.”

Over the past few weeks I have hosted a few little get togethers around Indianapolis talking to parents about kids and cell phones. I personally don’t think it’s a horrible idea for kids to have cell phones as long as there are limits, Cody agrees with me but until I began working with AT&T IContinue reading “innovative mobile phone safety features (sponsored by at&t)”

Oh you guys! You really are the butter on my homemade bread, because after I admitted that I’m a clutter bug? You all rallied around not only me, but everyone else who commented and said there is happiness in chaos and stress in perfection! (Or something to that effect.) Amy said “I’d love to seeContinue reading “before and after pounds and piles”

I fantasize about a clean house. If someone knocked on my door tomorrow and said “Two week long vacation on Tahiti, $10,000 or a tidy, well organized house?” I would be ALL OVER THE TIDY WELL ORGANIZED HOUSE. Sure, I could make something happen with the $10K, but I’d probably just do something responsible withContinue reading “why you won’t ever find my house as pinterest inspiration.”

Addie calls nipples ‘nibbles’ and if anyone ever corrects her I will choke you. She also calls pulp ‘plup’ please don’t correct her on this one either. Vivi has started pushing her hair out of her face and it’s pretty much the most adorable thing she does at the moment (because it never, ever works.)Continue reading “nibbles, plup and starfishing.”

Cody and I both wrote posts about our views on Addie getting her first phone, we didn’t discuss it first, we just wrote. You can find my post here. I don’t know how many times Addie has asked me while we’re at the store if we can run back to the toy section so sheContinue reading “he said: addie and a cell phone.”

Cody and I both wrote posts about our views on Addie getting her first phone, we didn’t discuss it first, we just wrote. You can find his post here. My dad had a smart phone four years before I even had a smart phone. It wasn’t until January of this year that Cody and IContinue reading “she said: kids and cell phones”