By Megan What’s your New Years resolution this year? Share it with us in the comments! Megan also blogs at FriedOkra.
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Merry Week, Merry Family, Merry Christmas, Everyone
By Megan What a busy, fun, exciting week we have before us. Just like everyone else, I’m running around trying to get all the last minute details wrapped up, but I wanted to share a few of my family’s favorite holiday traditions and ask everyone to share their own in the comments. It’s not too…
A Long-Overdue Thank You Note
By Megan Dear Bean, You and I went to the grocery store and made cookies together today. Just an ordinary trip to the grocery store and a simple little mix and bake project for Mama and Bean. No big deal. It’s funny though. I’m finally beginning to come out of the mother-of-a-newborn fog I’ve been in…
Not the Year for Currier and Hives
By Megan ‘Tis the the season to drive myself crazy trying to do it all and do it all perfectly, tied up in a fluffy red velvet bow and scented with a potpourri of oranges, cinnamon and cloves. This time last year I was well over my head in holiday hoo-ha by now, and it wasn’t so…
Thanksgiving, At Dawn
By Megan Bean woke up and shuffled into our dark bedroom an hour ago, at four in the morning. I’m thankful my daughter’s getting so grown up and fearless. We went back to her room, snuggled under her covers and read a story together. I’m thankful for all the books we could ever want, right…
I’ve Since Learned to Keep My Hands on My Own Turkey
By Megan I may have mentioned before that I have mild control issues. Ahem. Which is why about oh, the first 100 times or so that I attempted gettin’ crafty with my Bean, the whole shebang ended with her frantically sucking her fingers and begging for hotmilk (the magic elixir of tranquility) and me seething,…
Making a Bright Spot Out of Our Disappointment
By Megan My family had a reunion over the weekend, but the husband, kids and I weren’t there. We’d been planning on making the 10 -13 hour drive down to South Carolina from the Chicago suburbs for the event for almost a year, starting way back before we’d met our baby son, Peabody, whose head…
Nine O’Clock and All is Not Well, But It Will Be
By Megan I’ve been praying for a week about this day – just leaning on God to give me what I need to do what needs to be done for my little family from hour to hour on this, my first real, serious day as a mother of two. And as long as I haven’t…
My Knight in Shining Wingtips
By Megan I wrote this post for FriedOkra back in the summer, before Peabody was born. I was all-kindsa pregnant, all hot and cranky and clumsy and OVER IT ALREADY! It feels good to look back on this afternoon and remember how my husband helped me transcend all my little issues and discomfort and be ethereally…
Decision ’08
By Megan I’m hearing nigglings of some major election comin’ up here soon. What’s that all about again? I can’t keep up with current events right now, are you kiddin’ me? I don’t remember what month it is most of the time. All I know is, I’m writin’ in Martin Sheen. (Mostly because I think…