Spring in Texas is magical. Wild flowers pop up everywhere. The most benign and overlooked places are now gorgeous and have become destinations painted in flowers of blue blue bonnets, orange Indian paint brush blooms, and yellow wild flowers. Texas has given my soul space to bloom. I remember for years in the beginning of … Continue reading Bloom where you are planted
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A Ruby Mack date
My Ruby girl just keeps growing. And so she was in need of some new shirts to accommodate her ever changing height. a With a little encouragement from Marc, Ruby and I left at 6:30pm for a spontaneous girls night out. We drove Goldie, which means we had a bumping stereo. I gave Ruby full … Continue reading A Ruby Mack date
And a happy Papa New Year
My dad got a new fancy car at the end of the year, and so my parents had been praying about who they could bless and give his old Honda Accord to. Then when my mom came out to help us after Henry was born, she asked if we wanted it. Marc’s current car, Doctor … Continue reading And a happy Papa New Year
Baby blues
Baby blues are hard, heavy and as real as the concrete on the street. Unlike most, I get the blues while I am pregnant, starting in my second trimester, and then it fades after the baby comes. It’s like I have heavy coat on at all times and am unable to ever feel the cool … Continue reading Baby blues
One month with Henry Rex
Grammy came to town for 10 days and was an angel. She took a fussy baby during all hours of the day and night, taught home school, kept me fed and hydrated, did laundry, and made sure I took several naps everyday. He’s an angry elf Levi may be the most smitten by Henry. I … Continue reading One month with Henry Rex
Little things
I was up late reading The Kitchen Front for my book club. I’m part of a book club… I feel so fancy. Anyways, it’s a story about four women with varied backgrounds in Britain during World War II in a food competition using food rationing that has been forced on them from the war. It’s … Continue reading Little things
Just an OK weekend
Marc has a family reunion packed weekend in Idaho and Utah celebrating Seth’s graduation. With Marc gone for four days, I decided me and the kids needed a vacation too. So I packed our bags, charged the iPads, and were North bound to Oooooookalhoma! It’s pretty awesome that we just have to jump on the … Continue reading Just an OK weekend
Ruby turns 6
Thanksgiving y’all!!
Wednesday for the holiday we drove up to Dallas to spend it with the Smiths! Hooray!! And an impromptu dance party and sing-a-long to Vivo commenced. Not surprisingly, the excitement was all lead by Marc and Jaron. Then to ensure that sleeping would happen that evening, we went to the park and ran the kids. … Continue reading Thanksgiving y’all!!
Making Christmas ornaments
We bought the book Wild + Free Holidays by Ainsley Arlene. And it is just chalked full of fantastic ideas for family holiday activities and traditions. So we are trying out making nature-stamped ornaments. So step one: “find some nature things” -Hazel. (Also Hazel, “I’m a baby octopus and my name is tentacles.”) We went … Continue reading Making Christmas ornaments
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