whelp. time just keeps on cruising past, faster and faster, and well, anna is sixteen. she has been waiting for this one, so impatiently, and for so very long. since the actual day of her birthday had lots of big plans (*potentially), the grandlidboms came over the night before to exchange gifts and have some […]
sixteen years of anna, in buttercream.
as you by now are surely aware, every year on my childrens’ birthdays, i attempt to compensate for the previous years parenting failures, and the medium is cake. this year was no different. on her actual birthday we had storebought cheesecake, but as her big party with friends came closer, my yearly atonement was imminent. […]
thrifted hoodie upgrade for a friend.
once upon a time, i was thrift shopping with my pal sara without an h. i found a hoodie that i sort of liked. and she was like “hey that’s one of my colors”… so. i bought it. and an idea was hatched. with her birthday coming up, i knew i wanted to upcycle the […]
all things april. mostly.
now that i’ve written separate posts for easter festivities, my camping trip, anna’s grease performance, and our anniverary(ish) getaway, i didn’t leave much left to report from april. i kicked things off with an aprils fools day hang with my good old pal sara without an h. we hit up the new-ish bagel boss in […]
almost 23 years weekend getaway.
next month will mark 23 years of marriage for derek and me. it’s wild. since may is notoriously packed with mayhem, we celebrated a little bit early, escaping for a long weekend in abingdon, virginia, just outside of bristol. we have never really explored this area, so it was all new and exciting. our plan […]
beauty school dropout.
last fall, the annababy (formerly introverted and averse to attention) stepped out of her comfort zone and auditioned for a play with her high school. this spring, they were performing the grease musical, and she was part of the ensemble cast. derek and i, along with the grandlidboms, attended the opening night. the kids all […]
i’m back, baby. (sort of).
upon returning from a semi successful camping and hiking trip to hanging rock that was cut short, i booked a campsite at stone mountain to try again, two weeks later. i snagged the very last campsite available and when i pulled up i immediately understood why. it was fully exposed, with no tree coverage or […]
the worst documentation of easter you’ve ever seen.
this year was different. for the past few years (and even dating back to some of the years before we went on the road), we have hosted easter, along with a pretty epic egg hunt. it’s obviously evolved over the last almost two decades. this year, the “kids” are 21, 19, 18, almost 16, and […]
marching along.
look at me. catching up this blog. again. always. eye roll at myself. here’s some stuff that happened in march. (it wasn’t super eventful). we kicked off the month with a championship game for hazel’s baskeball team. i think they went undefeated this season and they won in the finals in a very exciting game. […]
semi-triumphant return to hiking.
as winter turned to spring, i began to get the itch to get out and camp and hike, and i booked myself a little weekend retreat at hanging rock. ran the plan past my pt and had a good plan to make sure i wasn’t an idiot. then, a few days before the trip, i […]