Alex

Just So You Know

April 8, 2011

To: Stevie and Alex From: Your Mama Date: April 7, 2011 RE: Just So You Know Dear Boys, What a crazy busy, exciting month it’s been around here. For the first time ever in the history of our household, we are now a baseball family. We’ve shopped for socks, belts, helmets, batting gloves, catcher’s mitts, [...]

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I Love My Job

March 22, 2011

Thanks to muddy ballfields, I scrub mud from tennis shoes and cleats almost daily. I pick up countless hot-wheels every single day. There are transformers on the table and CARS color changers on the bathtub. I step on Legos and I admire drawings of Sonic the Hedgehog and his posse. I dodge paper airplanes that soar from our loft. I AM [...]

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The Joy Of My Life

March 8, 2011

I spent most of the day sitting at my dining room table with three other PTA mothers processing cookie dough orders. It was the second fund-raiser of the year for Stevie’s school and was necessary because the budget for this school year has not been met. After processing 168 orders ($23,000) I am pleased to say our fund-raising [...]

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Letters To Crazy People

February 7, 2011

Many of you have asked to see our front door since I painted it blue wellspring. And by many of you, y’all do know that I mean five, right? I fully intend on doing a big reveal here on the blog, today is not that day because it would require me to get up, locate my camera, [...]

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Alex Ryan

January 31, 2011

This sweet boy: loves Fruit Loops cereal is a fast runner has an extra tooth stands 46 inches tall and weighs 46 pounds wears glasses (and has since he was three) has more Lightning McQueen cars than any one child needs wrestles with daddy any chance he gets has a love for shoes would rather [...]

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Just So You Know

January 24, 2011

To: Havoc and Mayhem From: Your Crazy Mama Date: January 23, 2011 RE: Just So You Know Dear Boys: It’s another busy month here at the McResidence, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.  Just last night as I watched you brush your teeth, it dawned on me that neither of you need a stool [...]

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You Capture – Favorites Photos from 2010

January 6, 2011

The good news is, I spent most of New Year’s Day organizing every single photo on my laptop into descriptive folders. Because we really now how to party around here. The bad news is, there are so many favorite photos from 2010, I might not be able to narrow it down to ten. But I’ll sure try. Our [...]

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You Capture – Halloween and Silence

November 3, 2010

I’ve got lots to show you this week, so I’ll just get right down to it and keep the mindless rambling to a minimum. But I will say that when I read that this week’s challenge was Halloween AND silence, SILENCE, mind you, I had to chuckle because me and the silence are not good [...]

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FIVE years ago

October 31, 2010

Five years ago today, McDaddy and I were a bit excited about a little something we had going on. We were about to become parents for the second (and final, as far as we know) time. I have always been the type that records everything. When I’m pregnant however, my OCD kicks into high higher [...]

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Wild Animals

October 13, 2010

 I wasn’t sure I would be able to participate in this week’s You Capture challenge. For starters, I have a child who is allergic to all manner of animal hair and second of all, I can’t even remember to water a flower and keep it alive for more than five days, much less some sort [...]

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