In the fall of 2003, I was a girl who had just pledged into a sorority, recently lost my Dad, and was, admittedly, rather lost. In a bold decision I decided to live in my sorority house that year, my sophomore year of college. The thing was, I had not made any friends in the sorority yet, [...]
[Continue reading...]CONAN in Atlanta
22 Apr By
I mentioned it briefly and posted some pictures on Instagram, but on Wednesday April 3rd, something amazing happened. I went to see Conan O’Brien. I love Conan like Kimberly at All Work and No Play Makes Mommy Go Something Something loves Chuck Norris or like my best friend loved Jonathan Taylor Thomas when we were [...]
[Continue reading...]Home
16 Apr By
Home used to exist in a house on Macedin Drive in a sleepy Georgia town. It remained there throughout my college years, throughout my various apartments. The spreading of my wings was still grounded in an old blue house and with the realities and memories of the five of us. And then home became elusive [...]
[Continue reading...]I am SuperMom
9 Apr By
I would like to officially nominate myself for SuperMom. It may be a fake contest, but I think I have a good chance of winning. I’ve done a lot of SuperMom stuff before, like all of the things I do all of the time while my husband works 80 work weeks and we don’t have [...]
[Continue reading...]Easter 2013
31 Mar By
Occasionally, when my husband’s schedule allows it, we like to go big for holidays. Last year we (kind of randomly) went big for St. Patrick’s Day. This year (more appropriately) we went big for Easter. This Easter weekend, we were able to have a rare family night Friday night which we used to go out [...]
[Continue reading...]The Preschool Decision
29 Mar By
Ever since my son’s preschool conference in January, I have been plagued with making a preschool decision. For some reason, this decision seems monumentally hard. I have finally succeeded in figuring out why…this is the first parenting decision I’ve had to think about. Weird, right? From the time we find out we are pregnant [...]
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