Last Sunday after mass the church choir sang “Happy Birthday” to me and Ms. Judy, another choir member. We share a birthday, and after the singing ended I told her that I did not realize we shared our special day. She laughed and said, “Yes, I am at 39 and holding!” I laughed back a…
MomCom 2014
Y’all know I love to go to conferences. It is there that I get to see my friends and sleep with them and eat yummy food and learn things. Things I did not even necessarily know I wanted to learn. When I won a scholarship ticket to Mom Com in Austin I was so thrilled…
BRAVE
Over the weekend I sent my boys off to their friends’ house less than a block away, on their bikes. I watched as they made it to the end of our street and turned the corner, out of my sight. My oldest was thrilled to go off on his own, to his friends’ house alone….
Friends in Beach Places
I dug my feet into the sand this past weekend. It felt so damn good. There really is no other feeling like that in the world. To sit at the edge of the ocean, watching all of that water right in front of you, over and over again, listening to the crashes. Yet there you…
Staples Arc Organizing System {Giveaway}
I had a small panic attack the other day because I was trying to decide what to do first. I have a lot of “To Do”s. Don’t you? I like to make lists and write things down and I had started to put everything in my phone and all these alerts were going off and…
Sing Out
One of the things I love to do is sing. It is not something that I talk about here very often, but it is a passion of mine. And I am not talking about just singing in the shower or singing in the van or singing in the rain (although I love doing all of those…
Clashing
I woke up Sunday morning with a dream right on the edge of recall. I was all dressed up and alone in a hotel bar, waiting for Tim. We were supposed to be going to a wedding reception together and I sat alone nursing my cocktail while watching others around me with scrutiny. One woman…
By Searching
So… Sometimes I look at the stats for this here blog. Yeah, yeah, you know you do it too. I think it’s kinda fun just to look at what people search for that brings them to my little space on the big ole inter-webby. Many times it’s just general stuff, like my blog name or…
I know someone else at the gym wants my body too…
There is a woman who belongs to my gym/club that has a super rockin’ body. Whenever she is in front of me on any apparatus in the large cardio room then I am guaranteed to watch her for a bit. My eyes gravitate towards her. And don’t lie to yourself (or me) and tell me…
I just couldn’t stay away…
I had not planned to go to BlogHer at all this year. All along I was not going but still asked Jen to save me a spot in the hotel room “just in case” because we had so much other stuff going on this summer. But then as people started to show up on Wednesday and…