Elated Exhaustion

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Why Father’s Day Annoys Me

“Happy Father’s Day to the best Dad in the world!” “I have the best husband and father a girl could ask for!” “Happy Father’s Day to my amazing husband and my very own amazing Dad!” “I have the...

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Memories Captured Spring 2013

Twice a year, we set a date with our favorite photographer. I try to coordinate outfits and spend a lot longer than I normally do on hair and make up. We leave behind stained shirts and toddler...

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Cleaning Tips on Home Made Simple!

My favorite go-to shoes in the summer are my flip flops. They are cute, easy, comfortable, and show off your oh-so-pretty pedicure. My only problem with flip flops is that they can get dirty very...

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Top 10 Reasons You Should Not Be Parent Council Chair

The school year is over and for most of us summer is already in full swing filled with days by the pool and vacations to the beach. But as we wrap up the school year, I just want to leave you with...

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Once a year, we leave our regular routine of life and enter into a vacation world of just the three of us. Work is finally on hold, dishes and laundry are left until we return, we don’t worry about...

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End of The Year

I drove home alone from choir rehearsal as the dusk began to settle into dark. Tears had been on the verge of falling for days, but I was completely unsure of why. When’s the last time you let...

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Sick Day (A Belated Mother’s Day)

He sits parked in his “rock rock chair” as the morning sunlight fades to noon and it begins to rain, again, for the 5th day in a row. We haven’t left the house in 3 days, he and I. I feel a bit...

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Mini Makeover: Yellow Front Door

We’ve been on a home improvement kick lately; painting, organizing, adding items. One of my favorite things has been our yellow front door makeover. I had been coveting this yellow front door ever...

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Fashionista

This week I am overwhelmed with my role as Parent Council Chair at my son’s school. I have been working non stop on the Silent Auction fundraiser coming up next week and it’s Teacher Appreciation...

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Lifted

I have been feeling heavy for months, feeling like big decisions are looming over us and not knowing what to do. Since January, we have been uncertain of where my son would go to school next year,...

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The CSA Experiment

Our First CSA In this family, we are good at a lot of things. Meal planning, grocery shopping, eating healthy, or exercising are not really among them. Most of my exercise attempts result in...

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Last Year

A year ago today, I wrote this post, a short, light-hearted bit about the silliness of toddlers. Looking at last year’s sourrounding posts, all of them were light-hearted. Funny. Easy reads. A post...

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Perspective

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,...

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CONAN in Atlanta

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...

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Home

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...

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I am SuperMom

Me as SuperMom 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...

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Easter 2013

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...

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The Preschool Decision

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...

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Be Still

The 4 and 1/4 inches of snow that covered Richmond. We lost power for 12 hours and I was given the much needed time to be still. Be still and know that I’m with you Be still and know that I am here...

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The Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

I have been reluctant to tell you this story, because I like to think this is a sweet blog. Sure, there are times when I tell you about my son’s love of his boy parts and talk about the tough stuff...

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Blended Pieces on Moonfrye

“The sun was peeking through the clouds giving slight highlights to our morning as we traced the familiar steps to the car. My son climbed into his almost too small car seat. I remember when he...

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The Noise of Silence

I can only write in the quiet, in stolen moments of peace from the often chaotic pace of my life. My words come alive when I sip coffee in the quiet of a house granted when my husband is at work...

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The Balance

Cold rain fell from the sky as I navigated the dark road home. I felt mostly alone, though city lights and distant cars passed in a blur through my peripheral vision. “Maybe it’s too much” I...

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Calendars and Half Birthdays

Three and a Half March 1st is my son’s half birthday. (Yes, I am that mom that knows his half birthday.) On his 6 month, 18 month, and 2 1/2 half birthdays they all seemed very significant and we...

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Unexpected Parenting

I had a Hembree boy. You may not understand the significance of this statement unless you know that Hembree is my married name and know my husband’s family, but I will try to fill you in. My...

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Growing Up and Getting Dressed

Today, I’m honored to be over at Moonfrye talking about a simple task, but an oh so important one; getting dressed. It’s not as easy as you might think. Join me as I talk about the push and pull of...

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Mini Makeover: Art Closet

My son likes to do crafts and I have been working more with him lately on sitting down and focusing. He loves to make play dough pancakes and marker maps and “write” grocery lists which are truly...

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Choose Your Battles

It was an early morning and the often dreaded get-ready- for-school routine was upon us. Neither of us excel in the “morning person” area, so my son and I both struggle with the unreasonable...

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Only Three Things

I feel like there’s a lot on my plate lately. Partially because there is, the juggling of the every day, the balance of the activities that take up the space on my calendar and the time in my day....

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Elated Exhaustion

Why Father’s Day Annoys Me

Memories Captured Spring 2013

Cleaning Tips on Home Made Simple!

Top 10 Reasons You Should Not Be Parent Council Chair

Vacation Week 2013

End of The Year

Sick Day (A Belated Mother’s Day)

Mini Makeover: Yellow Front Door

Fashionista

Lifted

The CSA Experiment

Last Year

Perspective

CONAN in Atlanta

Home

I am SuperMom

Easter 2013

The Preschool Decision

Be Still

The Terrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Blended Pieces on Moonfrye

The Noise of Silence

The Balance

Calendars and Half Birthdays

Unexpected Parenting

Growing Up and Getting Dressed

Mini Makeover: Art Closet

Choose Your Battles

Only Three Things

Mini Makeover: Gallery Wall

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