When it comes to modesty I fall somewhere between a go-go dancer and one of the Duggar girls. Are go-go dancers even a thing anymore? If not, we should really bring them back. After all, how cool are these boots? How I mooned the people of Liverpool Or maybe this. This is pretty much me…
Red room of pain or red roses. Which would you pick? I love Valentine’s Day. I am not much of a hearts and flowers, schmoopy romantic kinda girl but I’ll admit, I like a dedicated day to be silly and celebrate love with my man. No, I don’t need a commercialized holiday to remind me…
Welcome to my blog and thanks for reading! Subscribe or connect with me on Facebook so you don’t miss a thing! My husband and I went on a date last week. Translation: we went to Costco without the kids. I was dressed to impress. Translation: my yoga pants did not bear visible signs of anything my kids…
Whenever I hear the term “epic fail” I think of how much I dislike urban slang, even though I use it more than I’d like to admit. When someone says “epic fail” I think of disaster of…well…epic proportions. Major stuff…nuclear accidents, plague, locusts, stuff like that. Certainly not the barista forgetting to make your double-shot…
My husband and I became empty-nesters in 2011. I hate when people say “empty-nesters.” It sounds sad. And old. My daughter moved out. I got a promotion. We moved from the Midwest United States to England. To say 2011 was a year of change…well, that’s a pretty big understatement. I looked forward to a quiet…
When I was twenty, I didn’t spend much time thinking about what it would be like to be…well…old. My forties and fifties seemed like they were a looooong way off…mostly because they were. If I’d have stopped to think about what midlife would look like, I’d probably imagine myself wearing polyester stretch pants, pantyhose with reinforced toes and…
Multitasking. I’m not sure what the official definition is but I describe it as talking on the phone while checking my email while trying to throw together dinner by scrolling through Pinterest on my tablet while trying to referee an argument between my two youngest children while trying to assure my oldest child that yes,…
I’m not going to live forever. You might be reading this and thinking “duh” but those six words are hard to type. Like many people, I don’t like to think about my own mortality. It’s funny how we’re so reluctant to think about death because nobody lives forever…unless you’re a Cullen. [Tweet “Funny how we’re…
Trendy. Hip. The “in thing.” The word trendy can describe what you drive, what you wear, or how you take your coffee. I recently saw the word trendy being used synonymously with adopting children from China and it pissed me off. There are lots of reasons behind why we adopted from China but keeping up…
November is National Adoption Month. In celebration, I’m going to give you a sample of questions you shouldn’t ask that family who maybe looks just a little bit different. And, that teacher who told you the only dumb question is one not asked? She lied. Some questions are dumb. Read on. [Tweet “November is National…