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Tiny Bits of Grace.

August 11, 2011

Ali has an absolutely precious Sunday School teacher named Miss Bobbie. She is about my parent’s age, has grandkids the age of my kids, and is currently undergoing chemotherapy. …yet she still has the energy, somehow, to wrangle and teach a group of four year olds every other Sunday – and constantly be bubbling over [...]

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The Awkwardly Intense Busybody Club.

July 27, 2011

The Public and I have had a challenging time lately. It all started with the Checkout Lady at Michael’s – remember her? The only explanation that I can think of for what has happened since then is that she was so worried about my disdainful care of my infant that she called together an urgent [...]

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The Diary of a Backyard Naturalist.

July 22, 2011

Many people have asked for “less kids and more bunnies!!” in the posts around here.  Okay, maybe they haven’t said it quite like that, but it’s been pretty close.  At any rate, the following is a fully Yard Bunny Family update. I sat out in the backyard, being eaten alive by bugs. I watched the [...]

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Cousfusion.

July 18, 2011

Meet Eli. Eli happens to be Ali and Noah’s dashingly handsome cousin. He’s the perfect age of old enough to verbalize his opinions, yet young enough for them to be awesomely flawed. So, it totally makes sense that, when he met Noah for the very first time, and that very first time happened to be [...]

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Yard Bunny

July 12, 2011

We have, despite our suburb-dwelling ways, what Ali calls “A Friendly Outdoor Pet” named Yard Bunny. YB can be seen in our backyard, side yard, and occasionally even front yard nearly every single day. We have a beautiful symbiotic relationship with her – we love watching her, she loves eating our weeds-that-are-pretending-to-be-grass, and she acts [...]

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Discovering The Magic City in America’s Oldest City

July 6, 2011

When I was very young, there was a brick-paved street a couple of blocks from my house.  It was really just a brick intersection – a tiny slice of leftover history that somehow got missed by the modernization of Birmingham.  I loved when we drove over it and I had the opportunity to pretend that [...]

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The Fruit of the Sea.

June 21, 2011

A guest post, as written by my husband Chris. All that I ever learned about shrimping, I learned by watching Forrest Gump. That all changed on Saturday. My uncle Leo invited me to go along with him and his neighbor Doug on a beautiful mild Saturday morning. Since I have a 6 month old son, [...]

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A Look Back: 6 Months Later.

June 19, 2011

Noah is six months old today. Half a year.. goes by so much more quickly the second time around. Despite my fears of having another baby, Noah has been a complete delight and pleasure. He’s the happiest, most joyful, smiliest baby I’ve ever encountered. His charm and constant laughter keep me falling in love with [...]

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Wedding Vows, a Decade Later.

March 31, 2011

Chris, being the more creative and eloquent half of our marriage, personally wrote our wedding vows.  We said those vows ten years ago today, and they were beautiful and meaningful and everything you would want them to be. But to be honest, I don’t remember a single line from them. And yes, I asked – [...]

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The Kind of Suckers You Wait Decades For.

February 20, 2011

It all started sometime in very early elementary school when I had gone over to my cousin’s house after he got out of school.  He had just had his Valentine’s party that day, and was loaded down with delicious looking Valentine’s loot attached to Valentine’s cards from all of his classmates. (I wish I’d learned [...]

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