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After a crappy weekend, it’s good to take one look at this face and know without an ounce of doubt, that life is good and everything is going to be ok. Yay Baby!

 This is not the right shade of burgundy! Are they kidding me with these things?  Ooh, I’m lovin’ the silver and gold. Metallics are so in! Mom, your paparazzi tendencies are really [...]

Plans fell through for both daddy and I tonight so we made a last minute decision to go out to dinner. Jax’s recent displays of explosive toddler “emotions”…aka tantrums, [...]

My Wonder Girl. What was life without you?

My mama is a big ol’ fan of Elvis Presley so a birthday celebration inspired by The King of Rock-and-Roll was in order. I am super proud of myself for pulling this celebration off. The [...]

There’s this girl that I know.  She’s a little bit nuts.  She doesn’t like to wear clothes. At least not where they are intended.  She puts her head through the leg holes of her [...]

Today is Grandma Gloria’s birthday. That’s my mama and Jax’s GG. Jax was named after her – Jacquelyn Gloria Elaine (Elaine is in honor of my husband’s mother who [...]

Have you ever seen anything so stinkin’ cute in your entire life? My bet is on, NO! How precious is Miss Jax in her Camo Babi-Kini? I pretty much died when I put this on her today and [...]

Over the weekend we swapped out infant carrier for a big-girl convertible car seat. I wasn’t ready but it’s been loooong overdue. My poor girl was has long outgrown it and although [...]

So that “fractured wrist” that wasn’t fractured is still causing a ruckus in my life. Instead of a break, I have a cyst. A ganglion cyst. Never heard of such a thing, but [...]

We’ve had several consecutive rainy days here in Phoenix. Monsoon storms that dump sheets of rain and cause lots of flooding on our city streets. Phoenicians are not so accustomed to [...]

Let me tell you about my day. It stunk. Really bad. And it sucked for all in my household too. Woe is us. Miss Jacquelyn has been under the weather since Friday, which explains her meltdown. [...]

As a stay-at-home mom, I don’t get much time to myself (not a complaint) and when we do get Grandma to babysit, it’s for Mommy and Daddy date nights (much needed), so it has been a [...]

Jax is my constant companion, my forever sidekick and like it or not, she goes everywhere I go. She is hit or miss at the grocery store, but does extremely well while dining out. My girlie likes [...]

I made these cookies last weekend and had planned to share the recipe next week but they are just too good to be kept a secret any longer. One word: Nutella! I am obsessed with it. My high school [...]