We’re back. The trip was amazing and fast and as you can see, we met a beautiful princess. Actually, we met a bunch of princesses. We had breakfast with them! Me: Ask Ariel if she misses her dad. Harper: Why? Me: Because she decided that she would rather have legs and a boy than a [...]

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This afternoon my parents announced that they are taking our family and my sister’s family to Disney World for Thanksgiving. The girls are smiling from ear to ear and studying their Birnbaum Guides to make sure they don’t miss anything during our stay. I haven’t been to Disney World since I was thirteen years old. [...]

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On Saturday morning, we packed up the car and headed to Columbia, Missouri to watch the Missouri Tigers KILL the Colorado Buffalos. (I’m all-capping the word KILL to make you think I’m a big football fan. In reality? Not so much. The final score of the game was 26-0, which I believe qualifies as a [...]

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On Saturday morning, we bundled up with coffee and doughnuts, sat lawn chairs on the side of the road, and enjoyed the high school’s homecoming parade. The girls were very excited to see Pete the Pirate. (Actually, they were excited to see that Pete was throwing Tootsie Rolls. The hurling of the candy is their [...]

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School started three weeks ago, and because I’m scared to death of having nothing to do, I’ve somehow managed to fill my calendar with arrows and freelance assignments and out-of-character plans like “September 7 – PTO meeting”. While I have your attention, let’s get something straight. Although I live in the United States, where periods [...]

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So, you know I went to Graceland last week. What I neglected to tell you is that I freaked out with all of the “Do Not Bring Blah, Blah, Blah into the Park” signs and left my camera in the car. Luckily, my mom had more sense than I did, and she allowed me to [...]

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I have returned home from Memphis. Actually, I returned three days ago, and have been spending the past 72 hours in an Elvis haze. I’ll just say this: If Elvis was still around and I wasn’t married with children, I would consider being his girlfriend if he would have me. Even with the 35 year [...]

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I don’t want to bore you with long windy stories about our vacation. Instead, I’ll show you some of my favorite photos. The view from our hotel room: From the top of Rendezvous Mountain: Totally loving the mountain thing: I ate a waffle (and drank a Fat Tire) on the top of Rendezvous Mountain: The [...]

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Shirts (long/short), skirts, tights, jeans, underclothes, cardigan, shoes, jewelry, and socks. Makeup and remover and fiber and deodorant and pills and retainer and camera and hair goo. Pajamas and book (The Elegance of the Hedgehog and Shirley Jackson) and iPod and yarn (with patterns) and travel notebook (with pens). Almonds and coffee. Ziploc bags. (Lines [...]

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This morning I remembered that I’ve been meaning to check in on Fluid Pudding. So, hello there! The past week has been insanely hectic, but I can’t really name more than five things that we’ve done. (Such is the life of the sporadic freelancer/perky homemaker I suppose. Jeff returns from work in the evening, and [...]

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