Have you all enjoyed the multiple posts today?  I would post several times a day if I’d let myself — I have that much stuff to tell about the girls!  Thankfully for you, I restrain myself to one, maybe two posts a day… well, other than today. We’ve seen a LOT of September dates: from [...]

For Angelina’s date this month, I took her to have lunch at Cracker Barrel.  It’s one of her favorite places to eat (and mine, too!).  While we waited for our table, we played a game of checkers on the front porch.  Who doesn’t love rocking chairs when fall is in the air? When they called [...]

For Aviean’s September date with me, I decided to mix things up a bit.  Her mom had a birthday this past weekend, so I decided that we would spend our date time working on a card and a gift for her mommy.  We had the best time! The first thing we did was create a [...]

Over the course of today, the very last day of September, I’m going to put up four different posts that show my “girls’ dates” with members of the fabulous five.  Each month, I take each of the girls on a “date” so that I can make sure I’m spending time alone and focusing on each [...]

It was a hard day at the doctor’s office today.  I cried the whole way home, but when I went to pick up the girls from daycare and school, I made myself promise myself that I wouldn’t cry in front of them. We had tacos for dinner… … and now we have all had showers [...]

I mentioned yesterday that, this past weekend, I took four members of the fabulous five with me to downtown Chattanooga for a little housewarming party Katie was having.  I loved living with Katie while we were in college; we got into everything from Jello to chocolate pudding to Little Debbies. I’m so glad she’s back [...]

I just wrote a long post about what I did over the weekend and then I lost it.  Gone, forever, into the internet abyss.  I can’t bring myself to write it out again, so today we embrace our friend list format: 1. On Friday, after finishing a huge event at work, I left the office [...]

And now they have brought me home to my quiet house where I will try to keep the loneliness from sucking me in tonight. You have to be careful or it sucks you right into its vortex before you even know you’ve been caught. Everybody wants somebody to come home to on rainy nights.

It’s a rainy Monday morning here in Tennessee.  I’m wearing my favorite wellies and thinking about how, even though it is sometimes tempting to be discouraged by Mondays, I can’t bring myself to dislike them because that’s 1/7 of every week of my life.  If you want to know the truth, and I hesitate to [...]

We’re only a few weeks away from my cousin Marisa’s wedding, so last weekend, several of the bridesmaids came in town and we had a couple of events for her.  First up?  Why, the bachelorette party, of course. I picked a really chic restaurant in downtown Chattanooga and we planned for everyone to meet at [...]