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The winners are Jen from Jen Guidance for Victory and Emily from Family Life in Las Vegas!   Congrats ladies and we’ll see you in Nashville!   Three years and five conferences ago Tanis and I did our first rendition in a tiny little Nashville bar. Since then we’ve sang the same song three moreContinue reading “blissdom full conference pass giveaway. (closed)”

At least three things are true. We make them blonde. We make them chubby. And boy howdy we make them cute. Did your babies look alike?  

She woke up and walked through the balloons I hung from her doorway, padded downstairs and ate an entire family of Mickey shaped pancakes filled with chocolate chips made especially for her by Cody. I gathered up the baby at lunchtime and met her in the school cafeteria with a cheeseburger and chocolate milk. BetweenContinue reading “best. birthday. ever.”

Those scratchy marks there on the wall. They show how short I used to be. They rise until they get this tall, And Mama keeps reminding me The way my dad would take his pen And as I stood there, stiff and straight, He’d put a ruler on my head And mark the spot andContinue reading “scratchy marks.”

I like to bake. I’m pretty good at it. I’ve posted a few recipes here and there, but I am certainly not a foodie or food blogger. However…with the weather outside turning frightful I’ve turned to making things delightful in the kitchen and I’ve seriously enjoyed it. The series is sponsored by Pillsbury and IContinue reading “the baking post I can blame pins and doughboys for.”

Does one really need a tablet? I begged and begged for one as a birthday/mother’s day/ push present (seeing as they were all within two weeks of each other I didn’t feel bad asking) and when Cody actually obliged? I suddenly felt guilty. I really only wanted the thing to play Angry Birds bigger thanContinue reading “a tisket, a tablet.”

There are times when I am absolutely exhausted just from looking at you. You are capable of going a hundred and seventeen miles per hour for eleven hours straight and I just don’t know how to keep up with that. You are way too smart for your own good and you have your dad’s courtroomContinue reading “disappointing motherhood.”

Nothing Christmas-y is allowed in my house until the day after Thanksgiving, there isn’t any huge great reason behind this aside from the fact that I feel bad that Thanksgiving gets the cold shoulder each year. Thanksgiving always gives us 4 day weekends. Christmas is on Sunday this year which means, well, nothing. The ChristmasContinue reading “ornamental memories.”

Well, not shopping for a smart phone, but shop with a smart phone, as in shop smartly with a smart phone. It has been a two months since owning my first smart phone (and two months since I documented said life step with taking a picture of baby barf on my shirt) I hate toContinue reading “smart phone shopping.”