Entries from December 2006

December 31, 2006

WideBodyBlog!!!

HE’S BACK!
pearl’s back to widebody-ing! i know y’all’ve waited over a year and now the wait is over.
so jump over and check him out! and spread the word!

December 30, 2006

some of the really great things about…

a small home…
-the paci search is greatly reduced.
-no monitors.
-putting away groceries and wal-mart stuff is really quick.
-i say, “where’s our girl?” a lot less.
-the heating and cooling bill.
-less steps to put up laundry.
-i can run children out of the kitchen while i’m cooking and still know what they’re getting into.
-i can mop the entire house [...]

December 28, 2006

thursday update

ok, it’s been a week. but c’mon, i see most of y’all haven’t posted through this holiday either, suckas!
i’m really tired tonight so it’s probably gonna be random. bear with me.
our 3 year old can now say his k’s. he just has to turn it into a habit. i’m thrilled and more than a little sad [...]

December 21, 2006

thursday (?!) update

i decided to bring back the wednesday updates i was doing before we moved, but since our appointments fall on wednesdays i’ll move the updates to thursdays. once again, the disclaimer, there will be info in here not pertaining to the pregnancy, but probably most will, so if you don’t want the (sometimes) gory details, [...]

December 18, 2006

lettin’ ‘em be…

wild at heart.
if you haven’t read the book, read it. my husband tells me it’s life changing for men. and has changed how i look at and deal with my hubby and boy children.
anyway, just the 2 parker girls went to wal-mart the other night and left the parker men to party it up. i called [...]

December 17, 2006

about Joel

please notice the new “15 minutes” link. please check it out.
this is not one of those random-it-might-be-a-real-story, links.
this little boy is 3. he is a twin. he has 12 brothers and sisters (and you thought we had a lot!).
his parents were my husband’s youth directors when he was in high school. they are awesome people [...]

December 16, 2006

strugglin’ with happy

i started writing this post and about a paragraph in i realized it was only making me unhappier to write it. so i stopped, erased it, and thought, “what would make me better?” and my words to my oldest on the way home tonight came back to me, “if you have nothing nice to say – say [...]

December 13, 2006

Christmas at the Parkers…

yesterday from the kiddos’ room…
after not nice exchanging of fussing sounds between my two (currently) youngest, my oldest says very take-charge-matter-of-factly-accusatorily, ” santa is watching you.” to which my middlest says, “he not really…… ????” i, of course, took care of the discussion by staying completely out of it. let them figure it out. [...]

December 12, 2006

I’M BACK, BABY!!

it’s so good to be sitting in front of this ‘puter doin’ somethin’ other than playin’ mahjongg. don’t get me wrong, it’s a fine game, just gettin’ a little old. so, i’ll start spreadin’ the word that i’m back and those of y’all that get word – pass word!
here’s my first confession: i haven’t read [...]