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Fashion Friday: Edition the longest week

Fashion

This is just a theory I have and is no way necessarily scientific, but I believe the weeks are getting longer. It feels like it took us approximately 472 days to get from Monday to Friday. But, finally, here we are. Welcome, Friday, we are so glad to see you. You might remember that a few weeks ago I told y'all about a new online boutique that some friends of mine have started. It's called Read More

An excerpt by Bops about Bops and Caroline

Books, Diary

Today we have an excerpt read by my dad, also known as Bops. He decided before Caroline was born that his grandpa name would be Pops, but Caroline pronounced it as Bops when she was a little over a year old and so Bops it is. He is the best. Also, this is a picture from about four years ago that is exhibit A of how much they favor each other. There are still a few signed, first Read More

Here are some things

Another day, Diary

Have I told y'all that I've declared Monday to be my new Saturday? Because I totally have. I'm not sure why it took me so long to figure this out, but since our weekends are so busy it just makes sense to let myself be less than productive on Mondays. Granted, this doesn't necessarily work every week, but when it does it's delightful. And it felt entirely justified yesterday because we spent Read More

Fashion Friday: Edition if ever there was a Fri-Yay, this is it

Fashion

Maybe it's because we are a month into school at this point or maybe it's because last week was a short week and this week was a full on five day affair, but I am so ready for the weekend. Super quick note before we get to the fashion portion of this post. I have a guest post on Ann Voskamp's blog that is an excerpt from Church of the Small Things. You can read that here if you're Read More

An excerpt about bangs

Books, Diary

Last spring we filmed various people reading excerpts from Church of the Small Things for me to share leading up to its official release on October 3. There was a time that I regularly posted videos of Caroline, but those days are long gone now that she's a teenager and not really interested in being on any kind of social media unless it's her own. However, she agreed to read an excerpt from the Read More

Playing catch up

Another day

Y'all. It's been so long since I've just written a normal update on life that I believe I have forgotten how. But I feel like so much has been going on that I can't even remember everything I wanted to make sure I remembered. So here's the short version of what I've been up to: Slowly losing my mind. Thank you for listening. I realized this morning that this is our fourth week of Read More

The Big Boo Cast, Episode 81

Podcast

We realized at some point in this podcast that we have been doing this for ten years and yet this is only our 81st episode. It makes me think that we're doing it wrong. Or maybe we're doing it right. I don't know. I just know that this time of year it's almost impossible for us to get our schedules to align so that we can record. But it happened today. And we talked about the hurricanes, Read More

Fashion Friday: Edition the end of a short week

Diary, Fashion

I don't know when it will feel normal to talk about normal things because we haven't even quit reeling from Hurricane Harvey and now Hurricane Irma is about to hit Florida. And so Fashion Friday feels a little silly, but I also think I've always used this space to give us all a little bit of a break from all the harsh realities of life so I'm going ahead with Fashion Friday today. But don't Read More

All the things

Another day, Diary

I'm just going to apologize in advance because this post is basically going to be a truckload of information about all the things I was supposed to share over the last few weeks but forgot to share because of Hurricane Harvey and trying to get back into our back to school routine and spending all of Labor Day weekend at a soccer tournament in Dallas. I'll be back to report on all of those things Read More