May 2013
4 posts
MJ
I just met one of the candidates who is interviewing for my old job. He was really tall and really nervous. But that wasn’t what caught my attention. That would be the “23” tatooed behind his ear, which apparently has a brother, “MJ”, behind his other ear. I work for a VERY conservative company. Case in point, my old boss had a mini stroke when our department...
April 2013
16 posts
pass the ranch: Make sure you have stories. →
happinesslists:
While pretending to study in Starbucks this afternoon an elderly man came out of nowhere and put a cup of coffee on my table and walked away. I didn’t notice until minutes later that a letter was attached underneath. It just happen to contain some of the best advice I’ve…
All of this.
1 tag
Click a few dots, and this program will try to... →
stickyheel5:
a—sweet—beginning:
thekimenator:
It’s part of an experiment to analyze how motor control changes with age. It nearly guessed my age [ 29- my birthday is next month].
What about you? via jtotheizzoe:
thissssssssss is creepy and amazing, and guessed that i am 30 (i am)
This is bullshit. It guessed I was 49.
Way too excited that the quiz guessed I was 27.
4 tags
What does this say about our family?!
Adult helper at preschool: Alright. Do any of you love bugs?
Kids: (every hand goes up)
Adult: James, what's your favorite bug?
James: My favorite kind of bug is a roach!
Adult: Really?
James: I know it's weird, but that is really my favorite kind of bug. I really like roaches.
“Don’t squander one blessing by coveting another one.”
– J.D. Greear (via modernhepburn)
Message received.
5 tags
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
Misery Loves Company (travel edition)
Commiserating with my colleagues about how awful Charles de Gaulle airport is makes me miss my old job and the international travel that went with it terribly.
2 tags
Calorie Counting?
I am in second place in our Biggest Loser contest at work mainly becuase I have been cutting back on carbs and processed foods and trying to walk as much as possible (and also because my coworkers went insane with their calorie counting in the beginning and realized that starving themselves wasn’t sustainable). Last week I was out of town for work and ate terribly. Five Guys,...
5 tags
Party Planning (aka please show up for my kid's...
James has a magnetic personality. I’m not saying this to brag; it’s just the way it is. People young and old are drawn to him, and he seems to take it in stride. Skip and I have friends and are liked well enough, but I don’t think of either of us as being magnetic. But James is, and sometimes I marvel at that because I can’t relate to it. And sometimes I worry that...
4 tags
March 2013
8 posts
4 tags
I have requested a Star Wars party.
My almost four year old in response to my mom asking what kind of birthday party he’s having next weekend. This is why we have hidden the party supplies (Star Wars of course) in Evie’s closet. You have been talking about this party for months so yeah we got that you wanted a Star Wars theme. This is exactly how I imagine Skip was at four.
5 tags
3 tags
4 tags
4 tags
2 tags
PSA
The newest version of iTunes SUCKS.
February 2013
16 posts
2 tags
Well crap
I officially need actual, good skin stuff (moisturizer, cleanser, serums, etc.).
3 tags
Touching
Skip: I'm glad I got to have lunch with you today, Buddy.
James: I'm glad I got to have a Capri Sun for lunch.
2 tags
3 tags
Skype adds 15lbs+ right?!
Just got done with a quick Skype session with our company’s German agent and was not happy with what I saw on the monitor. Eesh.
2 tags
Even the theme to Schindler’s List makes me tear up.
Texts from Pride and Prejudice
hollatchagurl:
what I liked about him the most how much he wanted to marry you remember that? Yes remember when there was someone who wanted to marry you yes hahahaha there isn’t anyone like that now
- Texts From Pride and Prejudice
Dying.
2 tags
Done
We are done having babies, but all of you cute pregnant Tumblr mammas and ESPECIALLY you adorable Tumblr newborns are killing my ovaries!!
3 tags
January 2013
7 posts
3 tags
Little Jerry Seinfeld
I forgot to make James go to the bathroom before we left the doctor’s office this morning. Said doctor’s office was a trek from the confusing deck where we had to park. Just as we finally found the van, James insisted that he had to potty. As anyone who has dealt with a three year old knows, that meant he should have gone five minutes beforehand. I paused only a brief moment before...
2 tags
“In children’s church Sunday we were talking about the bible and he said ‘I don’t...”
– Excerpt from an email I just got from another mom who helps with our children’s program at church. My proudest moment.
4 tags
2 tags
Good Morning!
I have never been a night owl. I never could stay up all night at slumber parties and have never pulled an all nighter studying (I’m useless after 10 pm). But I’ve also never been a super early riser. Basically I need sleep and lots of it. But with two kids, a full time job, and an old house that needs constant attention, I love a morning when I have the house to myself for a...
