Friends, I'm sorry I've been so quiet lately.  Thanks to those of you who have asked if I am ok.  I am.  I have felt really sick lately though.  I promise that I won't turn this blog into a full on documentary of pregnancy, but that is why I've been MIA online lately.  I'm exhausted all the time...as in taking a nap every afternoon and going to bed right after my kids do at … [Read more...]

Oh my words I'm so tired ya'll.  Seriously...all day I feel like this... But somehow I feel it literally in every single joint, every single muscle...I think even the action of yawning is exhausting to me.  I forgot how pregnancy does this to me.  So fatigued these first few weeks that I fall into bed at my baby's naptime. After we put our kids in bed tonight, I dragged … [Read more...]

Oh friends...I had the most hellatious night.  As in, it was so bad that I picked up the "quotable women" book on the back of my toilet at 3am and felt inspired by the words of Roseanne Barr ...of all people.... "There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect." You know things have gotten … [Read more...]

Seriously ya'll, can you believe that another year has come and gone?!  How did that happen?  Where did 2011 go?  What on earth will 2012 bring?  I'm so excited to find out! As I've been thinking back on this past year, I find a sense of accomplishment of doing something I've never been much good at doing...keeping a journal.  I mean, I still don't do the whole "dear diary" … [Read more...]

This is a post I wrote a couple of months ago....prematurely really, since it's actually the perfect thing to serve for New Years...but it was just so so good that I couldn't wait.  So...you're getting it again.  It's good enough to share again.  I promise! I must confess that headed into this recipe I was skeptical. I'm a good Southern girl, but that doesn't mean that I have … [Read more...]

Yesterday was "one of those days" with my kids.  Or more particularly with my 5 year-old. Granted, we've been kinda cooped up lately, and since he is a boy who is ALL BOY, we run into some behavioral issues when he gets too bored or cooped up.  So I have tried to stave off at least the boredom with things like making sugar cookies, working together to un-decorate from … [Read more...]

I SOOO wish I could claim this recipe as my own...but I can't, so I won't.  Got to give credit where credit is due, so thanks a million to my friend Heidi, who I met on an airplane and liked so much we've kept in touch.  She made this MOST amazing pimento cheese recipe to bring to our Christmas party, and I was so so excited when there was some leftover...until I ate the … [Read more...]

I don't know much about astronomy.  I can find the big and little dippers, and Orion in a clear night sky, but that's about it.  Beyond that, I don't much know what I'm looking at aside from a dark blanket of twinkling beauty. This morning, I found myself wanting to read through the Christmas story again.  I've read the story a lot over the years, but today for some reason … [Read more...]

Here we come a-wassailing Among the leaves so green; Here we come a-wand'ring So fair to be seen. REFRAIN: Love and joy come to you, And to you your wassail too; And God bless you and send you a Happy New Year And God send you a Happy New Year. My dear friend Wikipedia taught me that the old English wassail song refers to 'wassailing', or singing carols door to door wishing … [Read more...]