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Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Blitzen Powers passed away on Jan. 5, 2010. Often confused with the better known Blitzen of Santa's reindeer fame, Blitzen was the Powers' family Beta fish. He lived in the Powers home from Dec. 25, 2009 until the day of his passing. The circumstances of his death are still under investigation and one Emma O'Bryant, 3-years old and previously of Mount Pleasant, was brought into the kitchen for extensive questioning by her mother and Blitzen's owner, Mrs. Lizzie Powers of Greenwood, Mississippi. ...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Thank God it's time for school to start again. I thought about trying to sugar-coat my words with metaphors on life, learning and growing up, but I didn't have the energy to think of any.
This summer has been the very definition of chaos, and I am b ...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
As a stay-at-home-mom, your day is measured in very tangible increments. Before your feet hit the floor in the morning you know exactly how many minutes remain until breakfast, snack time, nap time, and lunch. Your internal clock goes off five minute ...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
I've always attempted to teach my children to treat others the way they want to be treated and to be kind and loving to everyone they meet. If this was the only measure of my parenting skills, I would be a complete and total failure.
I've spent the ...
Tuesday, August 03, 2010
Most of our lives are made up of mundane moments: grocery shopping, sleeping, cooking, and working. In most people's lives there are a handful of events that are milestones, events so meaningful they shape the course of the rest of your life -- marri ...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
It's funny how many of our memories fade to gray over the years and others stick out in your mind like snapshots in a photo album, so clear they seem to have only happened yesterday. I have a memory of my sister that remains so clear in my mind, I ca ...
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
As summer has rolled on full force, I have come to another startling conclusion. My kids outnumber me three to one and it is impossible to clean my house while they are all home. Even if they were old enough to be outside alone, it's too hot to send ...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
I had big plans on Saturday. I was going to wear my pajamas, write and lay around my house. The weekend for a stay-at-home mom means you are no longer the sole chef, referee and maid. It means my husband will be home to distract the (sweet) little m ...
Tuesday, July 06, 2010
The last month and a half has had all of my family shut indoors for too long, as I recovered from sickness and surgery. This week I launched my family full throttle into summertime as I endeavored to give my kids a "real" summer experience, complete ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Waking up in a quiet house is equally blissful and disconcerting when you're used to the constant hum of little girls playing pretend, screen doors slamming and the staccato of little bare feet scuttling across hardwood floors.I reveled in the silenc ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
This Father's Day didn't come with a perfectly wrapped gift and breakfast in bed. With help from my mother-in-law I did manage to replace my husband's favorite coffee mug. I didn't bother to wrap it. I simply tossed it to him on Saturday night (one w ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Something scary has happened at my house in the past week. I awakened from a fog of post-op anesthesia and prescription pain pills to find that I was the proud new owner of not one, but two, pets. I've happily had a pet-free household my entire marri ...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
This summer, the Town of Mount Pleasant and the Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission present a series of free family movies outdoors on the Charleston Harbor. Held at the Mount Pleasant Memorial Waterfront Park and Pier, the first of the ...
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
We are two weeks into summer vacation and after much scientific research I've made a startling discovery. I am exhausted and my children are not.It was one thing to run a tight ship when I was handing them over to someone else for several hours every ...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Having children is more than a full time job. It requires constant vigilance. Like a soldier on the battlefield your senses are on high alert. The smallest squeak of a floor board or creak of a door could signal an emergency. A cough or a sneeze in t ...
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
I had trouble getting off the toilet last week. I didn't have a stomach virus, and really I had trouble rising from a seated position regardless of the seating arrangements. I finally quit making excuses and headed back to the gym to lose my "baby we ...
Friday, May 14, 2010
Find
the Most Popular Baby Names in South Carolina for 2009at
WWW.SOCIALSECURITY.GOV
The Social Security Administration
today announced the most popular baby names in South Carolina for
2009. Continuing a popular Mother’s Day tradition ...
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Why do I do this to myself? How do I so easily forget? It hasn't been a full month since I took my kids to the Gulf Coast for spring break and I almost cried tears of gratitude when we finally made it back home.I wrote about it. I even read my own ar ...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
I have a Sister Wife. Don't worry, I'm not a polygamist. We share everything but husbands and clothes. Lizzie is supermodel skinny and has a fabulous fashion sense, so while I suppose I could wear her maternity clothes, she would look like MC Hammer ...
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Groundhog Day" starring Bill Murray is one of my favorite movies ever. It tells the story of Phil, a cranky, cantankerous weather man who is sent to Pennsylvania every year to cover Groundhog Day. Phil has no qualms about being extremely verbal in hi ...
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
I've wondered all week what I would write about…spring, Easter, egg hunts, new beginnings. All of these topics seem appropriate to the time of year. Our tulip tree has bloomed out; there are buds on the fig tree, and I received my first sunburn of th ...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Maybe I was crazy for imagining a relaxing week at the beach with four children under 5 years old, maybe I was just plain stupid. But as I anticipated a 10 day beach vacation with my daughters, my brother, my niece and my mother, I couldn't help but ...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Spring break isn't what it used to be. In high school and college I remember casually tossing clothes and a two-piece bathing suit into an overnight bag for a week long trip to the Gulf coast with my favorite people in the world, my girlfriends. Now ...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
I'm giving up on perfect. I wrote last week about Layla Grace, and how her parent's struggle facing terminal cancer with a 2-year-old had challenged me to have a better attitude about the menial and trying tasks of motherhood.This week God, and my ch ...
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
I've said it a million times— "My kids are driving me crazy!" — and with good reason of course. Emma is 3 years old and is constantly into everything. In the last month alone she has broken a lens to a very expensive camera, bit a hole in my lap top ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Tomorrow is our twelfth anniversary, my husband Zeb, said at the dinner table last night."What's an anniversary, our 5-year-old daughter asked."It means Mommy and Daddy got married 12 years ago tomorrow," he answered her."I want to go with you!" She ...
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