Lessons in Motherhood

Last week I got a tremendously large bug up my ass about baking Christmas cookies.  I don’t know why I’m obsessed with cookies this year.  Maybe it has to do with enjoying time in the kitchen with my daughter.  Maybe it has to do with punishing my husband by making him clean up the 5 [...]

but she was delicious!

There was a moment when I woke up this Thanksgiving morning and thought…”What the !@*&$ did I say I would do today?  Was I wasted last night when I came up with this plan?”  I was stone-cold sober unfortunately so I was not surprised to see my kitchen was strewn with Thanksgiving fixings…onions, stuffing, potatoes, [...]

Lest you forget, I love Thanksgiving.  So, earlier in the night when we realized that we might not be going to Greenville after all Luke and I had a conversation that went something like this:
Me: Well, what are we going to do?  We have to have Thanksgiving.  I have to make a list.
Luke: Don’t go [...]

Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Our Thanksgiving has just been derailed. Seriously, derailed.  We were supposed to drive to Greenville, SC to spend the holiday with my Mom and my step family.  I was to bring two minor dishes.
Wait, let me back up by saying that I love Thanksgiving.  Love it!  Typically, [...]

Ok. I suck at giving thanks. I don’t, however, suck at being thankful. The fact of the matter is that I have too many things to be thankful for – my family, our health, our house, our jobs, pretty much everything in our wonderful little lives. So, I am constantly thankful and [...]

Hailey wanted to be Spiderman. I was thrilled. Hailey wanted to be Nemo. I was amused. Hailey decided at the last possible minute to be Tinkerbell again. I was not at all surprised.