You Know You Have Blogger Kids When…

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It’s true that you can tell a child has a blogger for a mom when their lives are typed out in (sometimes embarrassing) detail. But there are other tell-tale signs that you can pick up, even if you don’t actually know that mom has a blog. Like when the kids do not understand why both… read more »

Old School Blogging

Remember those blog tags where you had to answer questions and then tag other bloggers? There are some bloggers who are bringing back that old school blogging style. And since I was tagged by Frelle, I thought I’d play along! What were you doing 10 years ago? I was a newlywed. I taught elementary school.… read more »

Showing Support

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Hello Better

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My smartphone goes everywhere with me.  Checking email and facebook, tweeting, even playing games or reading on the Kindle app: I love how I can do pretty much anything with it. Not to mention it keeps the kids entertained while we run errands. But there are certain places around my town where I can’t do… read more »

Family Photos

The whole crew

Last month, my family headed to Duke Gardens to have our family photos taken for the first time in almost three years. The fab Jacqueline of Jacqueline Perry Photography handled our session with such patience with my three boys, who just wanted to run and explore. If you are in the Raleigh/Durham area of NC,… read more »

PYHO Note for 2/15

Things I Can’t Say had a little bit of a technical hiccup while switching servers (so the site didn’t keep crashing!). Pour Your Heart Out will be up at 9 am est today! Thanks for your patience.

A Year in Pictures and Blog Posts

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How do you wrap up a year? Well, Ashley from My Front Porch Swing, Jessica from Four Plus an Angel, and Robin at Farewell Stranger all suggest doing it in photos. From this, I learned that I don’t take near enough pictures.                       MamaKat from… read more »

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas

I hope you and yours have a wonderful, magical, joyous, yummy, exciting, peaceful and any other positive adjective you can think of Christmas!   Comments are off: now it’s time to put together lots of toys! 

Memories Captured

6 years old

Our kids grow up so quickly. It’s not just physically that they change: the things they love, the things they say: what is so a part of everyday life today will soon disappear. It will somehow be so subtle and so quickly at the same time that we won’t remember. We’ll forget how one child… read more »

What Would You Wish For?

If you could be visited by a wish-granting fairy, what would you wish for? Enough with the peace on earth stuff, nice as that would be. This fairy wants to give you something tangible. Or at least, something that can be bought. I made a wish in the comments over on a friend’s blog and… read more »