This is a depiction of stubbornness. It might not look like it, but this adorable little girl in the blue sparkly tutu is testing me. Lela is a picky eater, so we have a rule that she has to take one bite of what we are serving. If she doesn’t like it, she doesn’t have […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Living “The Gift”
When Carlie was younger, she chose crazy themes for birthday parties. My favorite was her sixth birthday, when she wanted to have a “mud and flower” party. We had mud pie contests, served “dirt cake,” planted flowers in little pots as party favors, and of course, had pools of mud for the kids to roll […]
Top 20 Disturbing, Strange and Funny Southern Phrases (that I can recall)
(Okay, this one is just for fun and will be a big deviation from the things I usually write about. We were visiting my family in North Carolina for Thanksgiving, so I guess it put me in a redneck state of mind. So this post doesn’t really “fit” the blog, but it’s fun to venture […]