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Hidey Ho Peeps!
Just wanted to say hi, and let you know I haven’t forgotten about all of you! Baby Sadie and I came to Alabama for a long weekend with Shuggie, Aunt B and Baby Tucker. I have been enjoying Starbucks, Target, sushi and no one talking back to me (I’m not counting my sister because I didn’t have to send her to time out.) Aubrey and Emma have been in Mississippi with their Daddy this weekend, who I am sure is going to be very glad to see me tomorrow! I’m going to be posting some of his stories from the weekend for you. I hope you had a snowy and safe weekend.
XOXO

Emma’s Antics

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I don’t want y’all to think Emma’s calmed down any. I’ve just been so busy getting settled in our new home and getting everyone settled into new schools and routines, that I’ve been too tired to document all of her antics.

Last night as I was really cooking for the first time in awhile, (Chicken Parm and homemade marinara with angel hair) Sadie was crying and Aubrey was in time out. I had just put the chicken in the pan to brown when Emma reached up and dumped an entire box of angel hair pasta into the floor.

I sent her to time out, and was trying to salvage the noodles before Sadie could sit on them, when Zeb came in the door followed by an elderly woman from a local church. She was sweet as pie and totally oblivious to the madness in my house. Literally, all three of my kids were SCREAMING and crying, my floor was covered with angel hair and this sweet, SWEET woman was telling me the service times for every activity at her church. And all I could think was, “My chicken’s going to burn.”

Today while Emma was supposed to be in my bed napping, she destroyed a brand new tube of Burt’s Bees, which I’m sure I’ll locate at the most inconvenient time possible. (No doubt I’ll stick my foot into a shoe and find it as I’m running out the door one day.)

So I climbed into the bed with Emma, to watch her while she fell asleep. Curly blond her and impossibly long eyelashes, and I couldn’t be upset with her. She was lying on her side looking out the window and said, “Momma, wook. Da fees ah waving at me. I will wave back at dem.” She raised her skinny little arm and waved at the limbs.

I looked out the window and saw the bare branches waving in the wind. “Mm-hm. They are.”

“Momma,” she said matter-of-factly as she snuggled close to me, “da fees hab hands just wike me.”

She closed her eyes and leaned her head against my arm. I swore to myself I would remember this moment when I inevitably find the mashed up contents of what was formerly my chapstick.


PS. Of course we ate the noodles. Did you really have to ask?

More Chicky Goodness

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Hellooooo Peeps,
Just wanted to let y’all know that Robin’s Chicks may be coming to a town near you! My column has been picked up by 2 other papers which I will hopefully announce next week, and I have some exciting guest posts planned at a couple of really cool websites that I think you all will enjoy! Thank you so much for reading and please continue to tell people about me and my Chicks!

Keepin It Real, Yo…(Is that how you say it?)

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So I know I’m usually just more fun than a barrel’o’monkeys, but today’s just been one of those days where I feel like I went in Wal-Mart and emerged 12 hours later to find that I have no idea where my car is or what it even looks like, ya know what I’m sayin’?

Aubrey (5) has been alternating screaming at me since she got home from school, “MOMMA, I WANT TO SEE THE GRANDHOG ON TB!” (Not a typo, that’s what she calls The Groundhog and The TV,) with counting to 100, which she can do very well thankyouverymuch. And has done. About 100 times.

Aubrey has also developed a fascination with vampires. I have no idea where she gets this because she’s never even heard the word at home. But she seems to have an extensive knowledge of vampires, which she learned from, “the sharp pointy vampire tooth in my mouth.”

Emma (3) just turned up a bag full of Oreo dust. Even though I swept, mopped AND vacuumed my kitchen floor yesterday, lo, even getting on MY HANDS AND KNEES to get the really disgusting spots, in less than 24 hours I could add water to my floors and we could mud wrassle. (AGAIN, I realize this is NOT how you spell this word, but this is my world and my rant.)

Motherhood has owned me today. Motherhood chewed me up and spit me out. And I’m tired, I’ll be happy and silly again tomorrow, but right now…I want my Mommy. Wah!

No Pics of Sadie

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My sister-wife, Lizzie, and I hung all my pictures in the new house today. (RELAX, I’m not a polygamist, but it is definitely the best way to describe our relationship.) I realized while hanging all my pictures that I didn’t have one single picture of Baby Sadie in my den. (I do have ONE in the house, but that sounds even more pathetic and sad.)

So tonight, while Hubs took Aubrey on a dinner date (to Taco Bell, and yes, I was jealous) I decided to upload and order some pictures so that Sadie could be fairly represented in our family photographs. It only took about ten minutes, before I realized why I haven’t had time to order any pictures in the last year…and it starts with an “E.”

Reason No. 101 I <3 MS

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Because THIS was the smallest pack of smoked ham hocks my husband could buy at the grocery store. Paula Deen would be so proud!

Happy New Year!

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I can’t believe that 2010 is upon us! This year has been a blur of wonderful and amazing events which started about this time last year with the birth of my third child. A little idea I had in the middle of the night, turned into a blog, a newspaper column and then finally (well, almost) a book.

We moved this year for the 9th time in less than 12 years and I have collected friends, like souvenirs all across the country. I stood in the kitchen tonight, of what is most definitely my dream home and was overflowing with contentment and happiness at the blessings God has given me: a supportive husband (whom I love and almost always like), 3 healthy children, and a career that I never dreamed was actually possible.

And YOU are such a big part of that. You have laughed with me, and at me (maybe mostly at me, but I’m OK with that)…you have encouraged me, defended me and cheered me on. And I am so, SO incredibly thankful for you. Without you, what I do would be no fun…and without someone to laugh with, I would most definitely be crying.

May 2010 bring you all the happiness and contentment I’ve felt this year, and may YOUR wildest dream come true.

XOXO