When I received an alert on my phone that a school shooting was actively happening in a Florida high school, my heart sank into my stomach and my gut threatened to expel itself all over the steering wheel of my car. I was sitting in carpool to pick my younger two children up before picking…
Confessions
Make That The Clean Floor Diaries – A Vacuum that Sucks
I hate cleaning, that’s no surprise, but as part of a sponsored post for #CollectiveBias and their client, I’m trying to find new ways to make less work of my chores. I’m starting with cleaning my floors with #EurekaPower. Seriously y’all. Cleaning stinks. We live in a three bedroom townhome and have five different types…
Worst Day EVER & What a Secret Language Can do About it
You guys. I’ve had the worst day EVER in the history of my memory. Aside from the days I lost loved ones to illness or injury, of course. But today has been a doozy. I woke up to a major tech fail for work. I won’t go into details, but it was basically like a…
Where Will You be When I Die?
I was inspired today by Apia life cover to talk about the hereafter and my views on death and funerals. No, it’s not my general upbeat post, but it does explain how I feel about this unfortunate part of all of our lives. And for the record, it tells how I want to be celebrated…
The Dirty House Diaries
Forget the floor being dirty, the entire house suffers from nastiness at one point or another. Or always. The most disgusting room in my house has GOT to be The Nerd’s bathroom. I’m not the best housekeeper in the world and I have a tendency to overlook this room because I never use it. Plus,…
Delicious Pairings and Perfect Play Dates
As a stay at home mom, I sometimes struggle with activities to keep the kids busy. Busy = no new crayon murals on the walls; no “power drinks” made out of olive oil, coriander, salt, pepper, parsley, and rosemary, (all of my rosemary) that I’m forced to taste against my will; no food sprinkled over…
The Adventures of Pear Summer at Brandcation
My first Brandcation was Brandcation Pigeon Forge, Tennessee in October, 2011. I was a very last minute attendee and I had absolutely no idea what to expect. I knew Jen from Life with Levi on an internet-personal level. I knew that Mickey from A Helicopter Mom was going to be there and that I had…
Confessional – My Guilty Pleasure up in Smoke & A GIVEAWAY!
Yes, there is an eCigarette giveaway at the end of this post, but I want to tell you about my own guilty pleasure first. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my mom and her long love affair with cigarettes. It was a torrid and toxic affair that saw her through losing two brothers…
JT’s 20/20 Experience Comes to MY House
Back in the day when I was just a little gal, I was in love with this curly headed little boy named Justin on the Mickey Mouse Club. Fast forward to high school, and this flipping awesome boy band drops onto the scene with the curly-headed cutie as its front man. I was super stoked….
I’m a Dirty Girl
I hate showering. Showering sucks. I’ll tell you why: I have the thickest, most abundant, course, wavy hair of any white girl on the face of the planet. It’s also very dry so I can’t wash it every day. Then when I do wash my hair, it takes at least 8 minutes to wash &…