With the rest of Texas, we ended our school year yesterday with pizza, water balloons, swim parties, and whats soon to become our eau de summer - SPF 45. Its been a great year - busy, challenging, re...
Brandon is a cool kid. Hes polite and when he was much younger, loved to come hang out at the house and jump on the trampoline with Graham. He would swing by just about every day, have a snack, play ...
The morning Olivia was born, I woke up at, like, 2 a.m. because I had a few little cramps and probably needed to eat something. Obviously the forty-two pounds I had already gained werent going to jus...
This is one of the funniest things Ive seen recently.I totally get it. Ive always been a little gangly and a lot awkward.I joke that I was never a cheerleader and there is good reason. Iwould have hu...
Its totally funny to me how much of a habit blogging became for me and then, like exercise, once I stopped for a little while, my brain - like my thighs - became strangely out of shape and blubbery.I...
One of my favorite things about Thanksgiving break is that, despite all the Christmas trees going up and red bows slowly covering everything in sight, really, theres just food and family to enjoy. Th...
Thank you all for your sweet comments and emails about my last post on my grandad. They were much appreciated.Although our trip was mostly somber, my children are children and they tend to egg one an...
Over Labor Day, I loaded the kids up in the suburban and headed due north to Nebraska to visit my grandparents.I had spent every summer and holiday with them growing up but it had been way too long s...
With carpool, lunches, breakfasts, snacks that look like dinners, and dinner, coupled with soccer, football, volleyball, and serving as the president of the PTF this year at my childrens school, my f...
I have been incredibly neglectful of my blog lately. Mostly because Im trying not to be incredibly neglectful of my husband or my children or my other responsibilities.But, this afternoon, I needed t...
If youve followed my blog for any amount of time, youd know weve had two boys living with us for almost four years. Unless, of course, youve only been reading my blog for a few months and in that cas...
So. Trey and I had a great week while the kids were at camp. We made a deal, he wouldnt make me cook and I would go to Six Flags and ride the new Texas Giant and the Titan with him. Sometimes, we mak...
You know, all summer, my kids have listened to that song by Bruno Mars. I think its called the Lazy Song but Im really not sure because Im usually trying to argue the benefits/attributes/pros of coun...
Its 10:30 on Thursday night and, although Id love to say Ive been sitting here relaxing for a couple of hours in a quiet house because my children are all tucked neatly and sweetly in their beds, I c...
One day, maybe one day, Ill learn.One day, maybe Ill learn that dog grooming is not one of my gifts. In fact, grooming a dog most certainly works outside of my gifting.Do any of you remember this pos...
Hope you had a great 4th of July!We celebrated a little bit old school with friends in their backyard.We had waterslides, burgers, hot dogs, watermelon, and ice cream sundaes...And shaving cream...An...
Last week, Trey dropped a group of West Dallas ten off at the airport as they embarked on a mission trip to Senegal, Africa.To Trey, it was a pinnacle of the long-dreamed of goal that the kids we ser...
So, Im sitting here trying to figure out how to write a post of any reasonable length when I havent written so long and have so many things to talk about.Camp was amazing. Partly because, while it wa...
Im sitting in the car, Trey at the wheel, kids bouncing around the backseat (though totally secure in their seatbelts) on our way to family camp in Colorado. Its amazing to me how one of the most pat...
Sadie gave her last presentation of first grade this afternoon and, although a little late, I actually made it this time. That made my record 1-1 for the season in presentation show-ups for my younge...
This really great article ran in yesterdays Dallas Morning News about the Bicycle Garden at Mercy Street. Johnny is my friend Hannahs brother and truly a gift to the city.Unfortunately, I couldnt fig...
Having two teenage boys living with you can be challenging. They lived a whole life before we ever met. And although its a life I would have changed for them-rescued them from if I could have-it was ...
Last Saturday night, I had the privilege of celebrating my sixteenth wedding anniversary with Trey. Our anniversary was actually Friday but that night was spent bowling and eating at CiCis in celebra...
Hi! Er, I mean, hey. The dog ate my computer. Actually, thats not true. My computer is actually larger than one of my dogs and the other one wouldnt do such a thing because although shes ugly, shes m...
I love me a nice little surprise and in my old age (I say that TOTALLY tongue in cheek so nobody nod in agreement), Ive realized there are little surprises every day, you just have to look for them.S...
So, we had a pretty busy Spring Break over at Casa de Hill.San Antonio was on our minds and we took off Sunday for the week. Im sorry, did someone forget to tell me that the entire United States of A...
Yeah, I thought Id be back in full swing this morning - I was wrong. Im scrambling to get the house clean, groceries bought, and dogs off my bed so I can make the thing before Trey comes home.Fat cha...
Were back from Spring Break and oh, oh, oh, my stars do I have lots to share. The least of which was my husbands terrifying metamorphasis into Clark Griswold beginning with a wake up call at 7:55 Mon...
Im sitting outside as I write this- enjoying the beautiful sunshine and warm breezes of Spring. Im also enjoying the smell of exhaust and the sound air compressors waiting for my car to be fitte...
The ol Suburban in in high need of some TLC. Her brakes are talking to me and my children, bless their hearts, have managed to put a tear in the backseat the size of...well...Sadie. Hmmm. So, this af...
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