Category: Family

by Allison

twilight valentine’s hearts

My friend Donna, who knows I enjoy some vampire fiction, brought me a box of Twilight themed conversation hearts a couple weeks ago. Not only do they make my tongue go numb, some of them are sparkly. Yes, sparkly. I love Valentine’s Day.

by Allison

winter beard.

I hate facial hair. A lot. But Viktor’s latest growth has me rethinking things a little. Okay, I think it’s totally sexy, even though it’s red.

by Kimberly

got diapers?

Once upon a time diaper was a diaper was a diaper, all pretty much about the same. Anymore, it seems, the competition is fierce, and the latest innovation is calld Dry Max, by Pampers. You know them because they also make those great swaddling diapers for newborns to ease all that umbilical cord drama. So these new Dry Max dipes are thinner than other diapers and made with less materials and less packaging. Nice. Also nice, the pricing is the…
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by Allison

handmade valentine cards.

I decided the other night, when I saw the dismal array of Valentines at the store, we were going to make our own this year. Both Charming and Precocious were totally on board and let me boss them around with the details. I decided the best route would be to use my fabulous Cricut machine to do the dirty work for me, leaving me only to assemble and glue the pieces together. I kind of love the result. I cut…
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by Allison

valentine gifts for kids.

Back when I was a good mom, I used to get gifts for my kids on Valentine’s Day. I’m a mean mom these days and I usually only spring for chocolates and a card for my kiddos come V-Day. I have some great ideas for gifts that will make your kids go wild on Valentine’s Day. Seriously, they’ll love you forever. Unlike mine who will be in therapy for lack of toys when they get older. Zebra Shooter$26.95via Marshmallowville I…
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by Allison

1st grade photobooth.

Viktor found this photo of me in the depths of our basement the other day. I’d never seen before but it but it’s what I looked like in the first grade after I gave myself a bang trim. Those bangs must have been bothering me, and I haven’t stopped the hair schizophrenia since.

by Allison

riding bareback.

Now that we have a horse we have to go feed him. Daily. I know. I wish he lived next to our house {he lives 20 minutes away} because it’s putting a damper on my schedule to go out to the pasture every day just to throw some bales of hay over a fence. The kids are in hog heaven though; Precocious hasn’t been this happy in, well, ever. The other day after we got the horses all fed and…
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by Allison

happy new year!

I’m completely excited about a new year. New Year’s resolutions, fresh slate, clean house. I haven’t gotten to the clean house part yet but it’s one of my resolutions! 2009 was bananas for me. BA-NA-NAS. I traveled all over the country: Houston, Napa Valley, San Francisco, Monterey, Huntington Beach, L.A., San Diego, Chicago, Boston, New York, Huntington Beach {again}, Salt Lake City. I threw a party with a group of amazing women at BlogHer ’09, and survived to tell about…
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by Kimberly

Auld Lang Syne

New Year’s Eve is the anniversary of Mr. J and I meeting for the first time. He tracked me down three weeks later for a first date, and the rest is history! Thus, we make a point to mark the holiday in some way. Sometimes we eat out, sometimes we order in, perhaps watch a few movies and share a special moment and a fizzy drink at midnight. It has been, though, a little more difficult to celebrate in a…
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