by Robin | Aug 9, 2009 | Fun Mondays, Photos
A thousand years ago, I was an active participant in ; back then, I felt the need to visit, read and comment to every participant, and when it reached mid double digits in participation, I burned out and dropped out for the most part. It was a great community...
by Robin | Jul 25, 2009 | Family, Favorite things, Kids, Mom stuff, Parenting, Personal, Photos
As a mom to a 16 year old daughter, and 15 and 12 year old sons, life is fast and furious because they have things to do. A lot of them. Because it's summer, I was under some kind of misguided notion life would flow at a simpler, calmer pace, and we'd...
by Robin | Jul 21, 2009 | Humor, Personal, Photos
While I was elbow deep in cooking dinner last week, my son–heading out our back kitchen door–said, "Whoa…Mom… come look at what I almost walked into!" By the tone of his voice, I knew to drop what I was doing to see what he...
by Robin | Jul 18, 2009 | Animals, Friends, Humor, Personal, Pets, Photos
Like the new bracelet my daughter brought me back from Guatemala? It's the third bangle from the left. The other three are my former friend Paige's pet snakes. <— yes, plural.If I stumble across a snake in the wild, I'm likely...
by Robin | Jul 14, 2009 | Fourth of July, Holidays, Kids, Nostalgia, Personal, Photos
This is exactly the picture I was trying to capture, timed perfectly with the slip & slider in the background! I’ve always had a soft place for pinwheels…I don’t know if its their twirly spin or color blur, but their simplicity registers...
by Robin | Jul 11, 2009 | Celebrations, Fourth of July, Holidays, Personal, Photos, Southern, y'all
Our neighborhood resurrected a years' old tradition last week, born of Mayberry and family and simpler times: a Fourth of July parade.We don't have 76 trombones or 110 cornets or a thousand reeds, but we do have air horns and car horns and I think a...