In just shy of two months, my six-year-old daughter is going to be a flower girl. If you know anything about Scarlette, that sentence likely struck fear and delight in your heart simultaneously. This will be her first time in a wedding and the outcome of her flower girl performance is completely … [Read more...] about Saying Yes To The {Flower Girl} Dress
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When The First Day of First Grade Was An Epic Fail
My six-year-old daughter has developed a new habit in which she narrates every single thing she is doing as though she is a character in a book. I’m pretty sure that books are where she picked up this habit, as her cadence sounds similar to the audiobooks I let her listen to over lunch. We went to … [Read more...] about When The First Day of First Grade Was An Epic Fail
The Day That Everything Hit The {Attic} Fan
It started out as such a promising evening. My husband had cooked dinner and served it on my beautiful, new Pioneer Woman dishes. I had baked cookies. All of the children appeared to actually want to eat their food rather than protesting against it. All seemed well until my six-year-old piped up, … [Read more...] about The Day That Everything Hit The {Attic} Fan
What To Do When Newness Makes You Nervous
Newness always makes me nervous. It's the lack of a crisp definition that undoes me. I like to have a firm grip on things and I can't grasp what I can't see, I can't get a good hold when I don't know where the definites are. Lately, I have been living in a season of blurry edges. My natural … [Read more...] about What To Do When Newness Makes You Nervous
My Most Embarrassing Moment(s) Of The Week
Yesterday I rushed out of the house in a hurry to drop my daughter off at school. I had overslept due to the fact that I was up a million times with the baby in the middle of the night and so subsequently hit my alarm eleven times in a row. I threw some cereal in a baggie for my six-year-old to eat … [Read more...] about My Most Embarrassing Moment(s) Of The Week
No, I Don’t Think She’s Too Big For That
It was a rare occasion that found me at Target with my six-year-old a couple of weeks ago. I mean, it wasn't rare that I was at Target. I'm very basic in that I enjoy lattes, leggings and trips to Target. What was rare about it was that I didn't have the baby with me. Typically my trips to the … [Read more...] about No, I Don’t Think She’s Too Big For That
