You may recall early last year I lost a dear friend - my Blackberry 'Lil Shawty. It was only a few months old when it kamakazed into the gym toilet, taking with it such memories as pictures from Christmas and the video of the birth of our child. I can't think about it or I start to get all twitchy again. Because I limp along the technology freeway like a one legged ...
Caption contest monday
Because my last contest did so well with a whopping one entry, I thought it made sense to invest some more time and energy into doing another one. Leave as many caption entries as you want in the comments below - I'll pick my favorite tomorrow, Tuesday June 4 at 6:00pm CST. The winner will get two tickets for the Flight of the Butterflies at the St. Louis Science Center ...
that’s what she said
I was always afraid that as my girls grew older I would have an emotionally painful nostalgia for their baby years. And yes, while I have become a tad verklempt packing up their baby clothes and toys, I am so in love with having conversations with them and getting a peek into what is going on in that little head of theirs. I write down funny things they say in a little ...
tiny dancer
Last year around this time one of my best college friends asked me if I was going to enroll Ellie in the dance class she teaches. I'm not sure if I actually let her finish her sentence before I threw my coffee in her eyes and ran away. First of all, her studio is in east Jesus. I'm pretty sure if you went one more stoplight down you would fall off the end of the earth and ...
To Elliot on her fourth birthday
Dear Ellie, I know it sounds cliché, but it literally feels like yesterday that I procrastinated writing your third birthday letter until the last minute, stayed up until midnight trying to write it and still didn't get it posted until the next day. I swear one day I'll get ahead of the curve. Happy birthday yesterday, by the way. Although it seems like ...