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Another day, Diary

Before I say anything else, I just want to say thank you for all the sweet comments and kind words. Just getting all my thoughts out made me feel so much better and to read everything you wrote was an unexpected bonus. I honestly read a lot of it with tears in my eyes at how awesome this little corner of the internet is and that's because of you. We are thoroughly enjoying our Spring Break Read More

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A blog about nothing

Another day, Diary

First, let's discuss that the spring time change is the most cruel of all the time changes. When I realized Saturday afternoon that we had to move the clocks up an hour, I felt a part of my soul die. We all hate it, yet we all do it. It's like paying taxes or grocery shopping on a Sunday afternoon, an inevitable part of life that makes you question everything you know to be true. The look on Read More

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Fashion Friday: Edition it’s Spring Break

Diary, Fashion

This is going to be quick because we spent part of the night at a track meet and then the last part of the night watching our high school basketball team play in the state semi-final game. Sadly, they lost. But they had an amazing run and made our community so proud. And now I need to go to bed because we have a soccer game tomorrow night. The sports are trying to kill me, yet I love them so Read More

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Fashion Friday: Edition the end of a long week

Fashion

This is going to be so quick today because We've been at a track meet and it's late and I have a speaking thing in the morning that is going to require me to be up at way too early 'o clock to allow plenty of time for the creases in my forehead to go away before I have to speak to a large group of women. Thank you for understanding. And thanks for nothing, Retinol, I thought you were supposed Read More

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I went to Las Vegas and all you’re getting is this lousy blog post

Another day

So. I don't know how it's already almost the end of the week. I'm so tired that I had to just stop and actually make sure it is almost the end of the week because my days are so off and I think I'm still on Las Vegas time even though we've been home for three days. And since it is, in fact, Wednesday night as I sit and write this, I believe it qualifies as almost the end of the week because Read More

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The Big Boo Cast, Episode 96

Diary

This episode is part one of a two part series. Sophie talks to Jamie Golden of the Popcast at the end of this one, but we begin by sharing some of our day to day favorite things. You wouldn't even believe how hard it was for us to find the time to record these episodes, but let's just say it was a challenge. And I know I've been bad about actually writing here on the blog and I promise to do Read More

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Fashion Friday: Edition Viva Las Vegas

Diary, Fashion

Listen. I have not been very good about sticking to my New Year's resolution to blog more in 2018. But in my defense, I had no idea that I was about to step in to a season of life where I am a full-time chauffeur to various athletic activities. I keep thinking that "next week" it will get better and then I find myself in the middle of "next week" and it is not, in fact, better. I'm actually Read More

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The Big Boo Cast, Episode 95

Diary

This one only took use 954 tries to record. I accidentally shut my computer down and deleted the files the first time we tried. And then we had 849 scheduling snafus that involved having teenagers and sporting events. Yet, we found a way. We discuss the Olympics, what we're watching, and what Valentine's Day looks like twenty years into marriage. Spoiler alert: True love involves a Read More

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Fashion Friday: Edition I just got home from a track meet

Diary, Fashion

This is going to be so quick because I just got home from a track meet and I am inordinately tired considering I wasn't the one actually running in any events. But Caroline ran in the second event of the meet and the last event of the meet. That makes for a long night. It's a good thing I stretched and hydrated. Anyway, here are some cute things I found this week: 1. lush Read More

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Melanie ShankleMy name is Melanie and, in some strange twist of fate, I’m also known as Big Mama because I started this blog in July of 2006 when my daughter, Caroline, was not quite three years old and I was in the process of convincing her that BIG girls use the potty and BIG girls don’t have pacifiers, thus she thought BIG was the highest compliment in the land and began referring to me as BIG MAMA.Read More

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