Craptastic #iPPP

Welcome to #iPPP! Sarah at The Sunday Spill and I want to see your funny, your yummy, your heartfelt, your favorite phone photos of the week. All you need is a blog post containing at least one photo from any phone camera. Link up below!

I’ve had a crappy week (and a half). […]

By |April 23rd, 2013|#ippp, mother's day, motherhood is hard|Comments (46)

Losing Steam

I sit in one dining room chair, my feet under the table and up on another, warm in yesterday’s workout clothes (that may or may not have seen a workout yesterday), the smell of a breakfast burrito and coffee losing steam and a classical song on Little Einsteins gaining it.

This […]

By |January 5th, 2013|motherhood, motherhood is hard, parenting|Comments (43)

Shorning and Mourning #iPPP

Welcome back to #iPPP! Mama Mash and I want to see your funny, your yummy, your heartfelt, your favorite phone photos of the week. Link up below!

My baby (FINE, TODDLER.) had the most luxurious, wavy, swoopy hair. You may have seen some of the pictures I’ve taken lately:

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But it was […]

By |September 18th, 2012|#ippp, Ervin, growing up, hair cut, motherhood, motherhood is hard|Comments (24)

This Parenting Gig #iPPP

Welcome back to #iPPP! Mama Mash and I want to see your funny, your yummy, your heartfelt, your favorite phone photos of the week. Link up below!

I’m not sure I’m cut out for this parenting gig.

School is the reason I almost didn’t have kids. I was scared to send them off into the […]

By |August 21st, 2012|#ippp, Henry, motherhood is hard, school|Comments (17)

Great Expectations: Mommy’s Lounge

Janice writes at Mommy’s Lounge, about homeschooling, poetry, and digiscrapping, along with her three gorgeous kids and husband. (How do you have time for it all??)

She does a poetry workshop, which I think is just AWESOME. She’s also very present on Instagram; she’s a “trigger happy mama”, just like I […]

By |June 11th, 2012|Great Expectations, homeschooling, motherhood is hard|Comments (8)

The Weight Of It All

I’m linking up with Shell for the first time this week. I’ve talked a lot about Essie’s Celiac diagnosis (if you’re sick of hearing about it…sorry.) but I haven’t really talked about how I’m feeling about it.Our Essie will be three in July. The day I got the call that […]

Heat #iPPP

His cries jerk me awake, and I’m startled. I bring him in close, but he doesn’t latch on.Throwing his body back, he wails and pushes away from me. I try my best to soothe him, keep him from waking everyone else, but he doesn’t calm down.I stand up, hugging him […]

By |November 9th, 2011|birthday, Ervin, motherhood is hard, Tyson|Comments Off on Heat #iPPP

Being A Mama Is Hard.

I just left my first born at school, for his first day of kindergarten. And boy, did it break my heart!

At this point, he was still excited…

Isn’t he handsome??

But then, panic sets in.

I waited with him as long as I could, him clinging to me the whole time.

But he eventually […]

By |August 17th, 2011|first day, Henry, kindergarten, motherhood is hard|Comments (2)