In January of this year, my husband was diagnosed with diverticulitis. Which is basically an old person’s disease. You get it because you eat too much processed American food. When the doctor told us this, I got online and started looking up every single natural-type doctor I could think of: Dr. Weil, Dr. Oz, Dr. [...]
Halloween is a weird holiday. On one hand, I want to hide from anything that leads me in celebrating death with my kids. On the other hand: COSTUMES! CANDY! PEOPLE KNOCKING ON MY DOOR! As a family, we’ve done almost everything imaginable on Halloween–dressed up and went to a church carnival, trick-or-treated and went to [...]
Lisa Jo has been encouraging us to write our story. This has been an appropriate call as I’ve been honing my purpose on this blog, this space. I’ve been writing online for more than 6 years. I’ve written about Lost and purple and books. I’ve written about birthday parties, crafts and sisterchicks. But now I [...]
There is nothing that aggravates me more than my husband or my kids ignoring someone who speaks to them (mainly, me). I know they are just engrossed in whatever they are doing. I know they aren’t being rude on purpose. But I can’t help it. It bothers me. The other day, after being exceptionally [...]
The Flying Ace party is finally here! I feel like I’ve been teasing you for weeks about this. (Geez, I hope I can live up to my own hype!) We’ve been calling Asa, “Ace” since he was little (hence, the Vintage Ace party when he turned one). I decided a Flying Ace party would be [...]
In case you haven’t made the switch or missed our Backyard Party at my new bloggy space, here’s a wrap of of the fun this week! an airplane costume from Wearables by Kid Constructions (Four winners!) an 11×13 print from Hope Ink (+a 15% discount code for you!) the Redeemed scarf, I Am His necklace [...]
