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Body Language

( Holidays andPhotos andStella )

This lovely frock arrived last Friday. As you can see, she is trying to keep herself from exploding into a glittery pile of Disney princess micro-particulates. Even the graininess of the photo doesn’t mask the raging boil of joy that erupted the moment she slid into it’s iridescent embrace. Saying she loves this costume doesn’t [...]

Pumpkin Patch ’08

( Friends andHolidays andPhotos andPorter andStella )

If I could bottle the frantic energy of my children during this outing, I swear I could stop buying gas for my car. (click on photo to see the entire set)

Year 8: Coming Home

Today is Steve and I’s 8th wedding anniversary. 8 years. We are officially at that point in our relationship where there aren’t a whole lot of surprises. In fact, I would be willing to wager that if we were to enter the guess-what-your-doorknob-touching-spouse-is-going-to-say-next tourney, we’d be easily advancing to the finals about now. It’s that [...]

Happy Baby Daddy Day

( Holidays andPhotos andPorter andStella andSteve )

Today is the day that families around the world are supposed to worship thy father by giving him a day of leisure, pampering him with beer and meat flavored treats, and overall providing him with an opportunity to live life like he did before everything was hijacked by the chaos loving warmth of children. The [...]

If you hide it, they will come.

( Holidays andPhotos andPorter andStella )

So, Easter turned out to be your usual affair. Eggs. Chocolate. Chocolate eggs. And, the sad realization that not one, but both of my children would sell their souls to the devil for a single Hershey’s kiss. You’ll notice as you flip through the Easter morning pics that both of my children have a faint [...]