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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

Fall is in the air. And the trees.

Another day, Capital P

P and I just watched the news. Actually we never watch all the news. We just watch the weather. We are full on weather nerds around here. And to make it worse when I say we watched the news, I mean that we watched the six o'clock news. We record it every day and watch the weather report around 9:00 p.m. every night when it becomes inevitable that we aren't going to be awake for the ten Read More

Knock, knock. Who’s there? Orange. Except not.

Capital P, Doodle

Wouldn't it be great if I already had a picture of Caroline in her costume? That would be perfect since it's, you know, Halloween and all. But today will be the first time she's actually worn her costume because she's officially reached the age where it's not cool to wear your costume to the Pumpkin Patch and have pictures taken. And we didn't do the neighborhood shopping center carnival Read More

First day of school

Another day, Capital P, Doodle

Yesterday morning P woke Caroline and me up bright and early. And, in what will be the only time for the next nine months, we jumped out of bed ready to start the day and I cooked eggs for breakfast. Not that I'm opposed to making a delicious home-cooked breakfast. I'm just opposed to going to the effort so that someone can just move eggs around on a plate and tell me they're full. It's Read More

Blue skies, green water

Capital P, Doodle, Friends

So I'm sitting here typing this on Sunday night. And tomorrow is the first day of school. I've got school supplies stacked up, a new backpack packed, and Caroline's choice of outfit laid out on the bed. But nothing can really prepare me for the fact that my baby is going to be a fourth grader. I mean, I remember being a fourth grader. I vividly recall getting in trouble for repeatedly singing Read More

Hair is what we’ve been up to

Capital P, Doodle

Well this week hasn't really gone as planned. I kept Caroline home from school on Monday because she seemed tired and congested and just wasn't acting like herself. Which is to say that she was content to just lay in bed and do absolutely nothing. And then Tuesday morning she woke up and announced that her throat still felt "googly" and "scritchy" and so she stayed home again. On Read More

The birthday boy

Capital P

Happy Birthday, P. Your girls love you! By the way, eating fried chicken is totally optional. I'm not sure how that applies to the birthday song. Read More

Lucky number fourteen

Capital P

If you've read this blog for any significant amount of time (and God bless you for that) you might remember that I managed to cram all my significant life events into the month of August. Of course, I didn't have anything to do with my birthday. And, ultimately, I didn't really have anything to do with Caroline's birthday. I mean, yes, I did but I didn't have a specific plan about the month of Read More

And who can forget “The Legend of Muy Grande”?

Another day, Capital P

Well, this is a sad day. I feel like I've forgotten how to construct sentences over the last three days and, therefore, actual paragraphs may be entirely out of my reach. I'm not sure what has happened, but it would appear my brain has officially gone over to the summer side. My point is this may officially be the blog post that describes how I did my laundry and separated the whites from 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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If this were the 1970s, I would invite you over fo If this were the 1970s, I would invite you over for some fondue and perhaps a salad made of jello for dessert and treat you to a slideshow of our vacation pictures on a Kodak carousel. ⁣
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Perry on vacation is a whole mood. Wildlife expert Perry on vacation is a whole mood. Wildlife expert, map enthusiast, provider of any gear you might need. A man with a plan. ⁣
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Caroline and I agreed half the fun of the trip was watching him live his best life. The man, the myth, the legend.
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The fish we caught today were all bigger than my h The fish we caught today were all bigger than my hat and, frankly, that’s hard to do.

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