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It’s almost like JJ knows how very, very particular I am about my calendar and said, “Hey, Averi, you know what would be reeeeeeeally hilarious? If I took a PEN and colored all over mom’s calendar. On the first day of the month. Bwahahahahahahahaha!” And that’s how it happened. I’m sure of it.

Oh, hello there! Sorry, I didn’t hear you come in. I’m just in the kitchen where I always am…whipping up a batch of organic, gluten-free cookies with my perfectly well-behaved baby while I update my blog.

No photo sums up our weekend trip to New York City better than this one: L-O-V-E. Loved our first weekend away with just the two of us since the kiddos were born.

Prior to my incredibly lucrative career as a professional blogger (ahem), I was a motivational speaker. You can laugh. It’s funny to me too. [This is the same girl whose signature photo features her in a laundry basket eating Pringles, right?] Most of the motivational speaking I did was business-related. [That’s rich! Did they let […]

Update as of April 10:  Congrats to the winner, Dusti! “Ireland. i have always wanted to go there! but in reality, maybe an hour long trip to the coffee shop with my laptop? that sounds like a great vacation to me! p.s. Im new, and really liking your blog! i am also a stay at […]

When the afternoon begins with a professional hair and makeup artist and a photographer at the front door, you know it’s going to be a fun day. It all began yesterday at noon when über talented hair and makeup artist Mandy McKenna showed up with her 100 pound magic kit.

Since we had a pretty traumatic Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year, I was excited to celebrate Easter Sunday with a newfound appreciation for the significance of the cross and the empty tomb. Lately, I have spent a great deal of time in the Word, and it has TRANSFORMED the way I view the events of […]

One day, when my children learn to use a camera and photo editing software, I’m in BIG trouble.

Before I announce the winner of the Celebrate Stupidity Giveaway, I want to share with you a photo I took this morning from inside our house with the door only slightly cracked in order to avoid a face-full of snow.

As I perused aisle after aisle of cheap, kitschy Valentine’s Day crap in Target yesterday, I had a flashback to what this holiday was like when I was a child. Those days when my happiness actually revolved around whether or not some cute boy’s mom went to the trouble of buying me heart-shaped erasers and […]