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The first day of high school

Diary, Doodle

So this little nugget started high school yesterday. Untitled from Big Mama on Vimeo. Which is so weird since it feels like that video I filmed the night before she started Kindergarten was like two years ago. So much has changed, except the fact that she still brings her lunch to school every day. She has never one time fallen for my suggestion that she might like the cafeteria food if Read More

Fashion Friday: Edition the last one of the summer

Diary, Fashion

This is the last Friday of our summer. I realize some of you have already gone back to school and some of you have another week or so, but this is our last hurrah. We plan to celebrate by staying up late one more night, sleeping in late one more morning, and then going back to being responsible members of society like we were in May. Here are a few cute things I found this week even though Read More

Two decades later

Capital P, Diary

It has been twenty years ago today that these two crazy kids walked down an aisle and vowed to love and cherish each other for better or for worse, in sickness and in health, 'til death do us part. Honestly? We had no idea what any of that really meant. But here we are twenty years later. We have laughed and fought and cried and driven each other crazy. We've celebrated victories, Read More

Because 46 is apparently awesome

Diary, Friends

So today is my birthday. I am 46 years old. And I'll be honest, it feels weird to be officially closer to 50 than to 40. But last Sunday night, Gulley and I took the kids to watch a Texas A&M soccer exhibition game against Sam Houston and we saw our dear friend, Tiffany. She remarked, "You have a birthday coming up!" I replied, "Yes! And you just had one. Can you believe we're 46 years Read More

Fourteen

Diary, Doodle

Dear Caroline, Today you are fourteen. I don't even know how we got here so fast. The last fourteen years have been a whirlwind of pacifiers, diapers and sleepless nights that led to Finding Nemo lunch boxes, pigtails, and losing your first tooth that brought us to sleepovers, soccer games and braces on your teeth. Now here we are on the precipice of high school and although I keep trying to Read More

Fashion Friday: Edition I fell into a burning ring of fire

Diary, Fashion

I was watching the weather last night and the weatherman seriously referred to our forecast over the next few days as a "ring of fire". And then I lost my will to live. The end. It is seriously so hot that it's hard to even care about shopping right now. And just the fact I typed that sentence makes me wonder who I am and what has happened to my life. Yet I still managed to find a few Read More

And while I was looking around at Nordstrom

Diary, Fashion

Well, first of all, thank you for being so excited about the E-book preorder deal yesterday. By the time I looked at Amazon yesterday morning, it was already up to #88 out of all Kindle books. In fact, it was only behind the classic novel, Stud Muffin. This really feels like the pinnacle of my writing career. Anyway, if you pre-ordered and entered in your information, then you'll be Read More

Church of the Small Things Ebook for only $4.99

Books, Diary

Maybe you've heard I have a new book coming out October 3.  And as we were talking about all the things we'd like to do as it goes out into the world, someone said, "What if we give everyone a chance to pre-order the ebook version for only $4.99 for 24 hours?"   (I wasn't that person, but I totally would have been if I had known such a thing was possible.)   Here's the deal. You can Read More