My garden is overflowing…so much so that Harry is going to make a squash stand in front of the house instead of a lemonade stand. And today, we started Day 1 of the 8-Day Pickle Making Process...
This is my parents’ back yard. It’s about 10 minutes from our house. We plan to spend a lot of time here this summer. We started that plan today. If all goes well, you’ll be ...
Harry graduated Kindergarten 15 minutes ago, and he’s already sporting a Buzz Cut and a Weapon. God Bless Central Texas.
We have five restaurants in our little town…all within a few blocks of our house. One of them is a sno-cone stand. Each cup costs a dollar. We plan to spend a lot of time and a lot of money the...
So last time I checked, it was April. And then all of a sudden, it’s May 22. My very first boyfriend’s birthday. How do I remember this? I have no idea. I was in fourth grade, he was in f...
I’ve been playing lots of Tennis lately. No, not the sport. That would be ridiculous. I’ve been playing the music from the band Tennis, made up of husband-and-wife duo Alaina Moore and Pa...
Q: How do you make kids like vegetables? A: You plant a garden and have the kids grow the vegetables themselves. This was the answer someone gave me. This completely did not work. In March, we starte...
And laugh we did on Wednesday night. I love this photo. Me and Victor (Jenny‘s husband) laughing along with 350 others as she did her reading in Austin at Book People… right after she fou...
So as you may or may not know, I’m part of a team that puts on this conference every year called the Mom 2.0 Summit. It’s our fourth year, and this time it’s in Miami. Every year, t...
So I’m sitting here, trying to figure out how to be clever, and I just don’t have it in me this morning. I’m still spinning from the last 38 hours. So I’ll just tell you about...
Be good to one another.
(Photos from Our Best Bites) And a very merry Passover to you too. I’m sad to be missing Seder dinner at Laurie Smithwick‘s house. Because, as you may remember, I’m attempting to no...
As I mentioned yesterday, we have been eating like crap all winter long in this house. So dumb. We had a mild winter across the country, but you wouldn’t know it the way we were pounding macaro...
I might have mentioned that I’ve basically been on an all-carb diet since about October. But no more. The hot weather means less clothing and that means more vegetables. It’s basic math. ...
I spent most of the day on the phone, in meetings, and back on the phone. But somewhere in the midst of it, I ran across this photo of my yard in August. Pathetic. About a year and a half ago, so muc...
Another way I’m celebrating the fresh start of Spring this week? … Going old school, back to my very first job: Teaching! That’s right. I’m teaching two classes on the Alt Cha...
So here we go. I am going to attempt to capture this year in a photo a day. I said attempt. It is my intention to do this. I want to do this. And I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. If you c...
So last year, when I made my life list, I included: “15. Have a cool pair of glasses for every day of the week.” Because now that I actually have to wear glasses every day of the week (Da...
It’s that time of year again! Time for a wholelotta breakfast-tacos-and-beer-drink ing shenanigans in Austin Texas. The annual homage to all things hip is bigger than ever this year, and so I th...
Tomorrow we will have our third and final auction of my great uncle PJ Allen’s estate. As you may remember (last fall I wrote about this and Jenny did too), PJ was a professional Parade Float a...
*UME photo from Beat Lawrence So 80 kabillion people are about to descend upon our city. And I couldn’t be more excited. I’m already filling my calendar with interesting parties (watch ou...
40 was the New Year’s Eve of birthdays. And I’m not a fan of New Year’s Eve. There’s always a lot of random, weird, and misplaced energy flying around. It’s the drunk ba...
So. It’s the weekend before Valentine’s Day. And Harry and I will be hanging out, making Valentines. And playing Skylanders. As we’ve already established, I dig these little project...
I’m ready for a lazy, low-key weekend. No big plans. I do want to clean the house, open the doors and turn up the music. And here’s what I’m listening to. Violens sound like 1983 to...
This is the second year in a row that Harry has done a project for the 100th day of school. I guess this is now a thing? When did this become a thing? (Dumb first-time parent question: Do they do thi...
Have you seen the Kirtsy slideshow on the Super Bowl. I love the game…if only because Kirtsy was created five years ago right in the middle of it. My favorite item mentioned…the Greatest ...
I wrote a post on Hitting Refresh today that started to be about our trip to see the Harlem Globetrotters this past weekend. But then it turned into something about Beyonce and gender equality and pa...
The words crystal and chandelier creep me out. Put them together and, I don’t know, weird. I get that this is overly irrational, but shopping for crystal chandeliers is unsettling. It makes me...
Above photo by Better in Bulk. As I know I’ve mentioned before, my friend Jenny is always coming up with these fantastic things that make her (and others) furiously happy. You probably know abo...
Being sick for five days has helped me remember how much I need to be drinking more tea, even when I’m not sick. I think this is going to be one of my New Year’s resolutions. This stuff o...
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