by Robin | Jul 29, 2008 | Blog Carnivals, Exercise in Frustration, Family, Favorite things, Kids, Personal, Photos, Wordless Wednesday
f l o u r. My kitchen/pantry floor, this afternoon. The largest in a set of four cannisters, filled just last night with five pounds of unbleached, all-purpose Gold Medal. A wedding shower gift from my mother-in-law over 20 years ago; I loved this set,...
by Robin | Jul 29, 2008 | Family, Funny Stuff!, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Random, Recycle
When you’re a fly on the wall of my kitchen, this is the kind of thing you might overhear: Conversation #1: Sitting at the kitchen table the other night, my 11-year-old and I were playing gin and he was decidedly spanking my behind in the process. Because...
by Robin | Jul 28, 2008 | Family, Kids, Parenting, Personal
Time is a fickle creature and sometimes I don’t like her one…little…bit. She toys and she taunts at her leisure and her pace is hardly fair–she creeps along at a slug’s pace when A Big Day approaches, but in the lives of my children she...
by Robin | Jul 15, 2008 | Blog Carnivals, Chattanooga, Family, Food and Drink, Personal, Photos
What better way to assure a steady rain than to wash your car forget your umbrella make plans to go to the lake with friends? In the South, scattered showers are typical; all-day lingering rain is not. Sunday, bags brimming with all manner of picnic and...
by Robin | Jul 12, 2008 | Family, Parenting, Personal
I cannot imagine the last five years of my mother’s life: while cancer ravaged her body, she endured the heart-shredding anguish of knowing she would leave behind three young children who adored her. My 33rd birthday marked the year in her life when she...
by Robin | Jul 3, 2008 | Beach, Family, Favorite things, God's Country, Great ideas!, Kiawah Island, Kids, Personal, Photos
Have you ever thought of a GREAT title for a post, but then you sat down to write and it didn’t seem like such a good idea? When I mentally composed this post today yesterday, its working title was "I’ve got the ‘Jelly Legs’ and I need an...