To friends of Julee: How to be a friend to a young widow

Those of you who are local Arkansans reading my blog have certainly heard of the tragic loss of local TV anchor Matt Turner. He was in a car accident and leaves behind a wife Julee and 10-month-old baby girl.

If … Read More

Monkey See Monkey Do | My Toddler Takes Fabulous Pictures

Last year a story about a monkey taking self-portraits made national news. The pictures are really pretty impressive, and there was some question as to whether or not they were faked.

Earlier Steve and Charlie were hanging out in the … Read More

Potty Training and Pinterest Parenting

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of parenting by Pinterest. Back in the olden days when I was pregnant, you know 3 years ago, I had to read books to get all psycho about something. Now I can just look … Read More

Easter Recap: Family, Friends, Food, Helicopters and Bird Poop. Hallelujah!

Easter 2012 included family, friends, food, a helicopter and bird poop. Hallelujah! Read More

Recovering mentally from a missed workout (30/30/30: 22, 23 & 24)

I had a great plan for this week. It all started on Monday with an elliptical workout at the gym, an early morning date with a Tae Bo DVD Tuesday,  a quick trip to Little Rock Tuesday afternoon, followed by a great Pilates class Wednesday, then on to the Blissdom blogging conference where I would do the 7 am fitness class Friday & Saturday.

It’s not that I screwed up in any big way. This post is about Read More

Apple household invaded: Daddy got a Kindle Touch

A couple years ago I posted a pretty decent rant about Steve’s addiction to Apple products and some new contraption called the iPantyLiner. There was absolutely no way I was going to let him spend hundreds of dollars on another piece of gadgetry just because Apple freakin’ rocks at marketing and he’s one of their mindless followers. Read More

This isn’t the Jacket Stable or the Slacks Cabin, ladies: It’s a Dress Barn GIVEAWAY!

Not really sure what I was getting myself into, I dragged my husband Steve (@scratic) over to the Dress Barn in the Pinnacle Hills Promenade to do a little shopping. We had a limited amount of time between work and going to the A-M-A-Z-I-N-G new Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opening. Our family pictures were scheduled for 9:00 a.m. the next morning, which meant that if I didn’t find the perfect outfit there would be no time to find something else for the pictures, and my whole master Christmas card plan would fail. FAIL! Read More

Home: Home off The Range

Photo courtesy of Steve Heron (c)

On Monday of last week I told my husband I knew something wonderful was about to happen. Later that same day I was driving to lunch with a new friend whom I had recently connected with at WordCamp Fayetteville when I had the same feeling and repeated the same words. I just knew something magical was going to happen that week.

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What? Like your home office is any stinkin’ better.

What? Like your home office is any stinkin’ better., a photo by Evolved Mommy on Flickr.

At night I tend to work from the couch instead of my desk, which really makes no sense because we don’t watch TV and it’s not any more comfortable than my desk chair.

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Gawking as Exercise: These Are the People in Your Neighborhood

Today I noticed that dog-hoarding crack house appeared to have been gutted, which hopefully means Read More