I received an email recently from Lauren Hoyt-Williams, PR Big Shot for SeaWorld, Busch Gardens and Discovery Cove.  It went something like this:
“So, um, I just wanted to follow up and see if you might actually be interested in RSVPing to the invitation I sent you for the upcoming event at Busch Gardens next week.”
Basically.
(She [...]

Do you know why there are so many mommy blogs?
Because it’s easy.
If you have kids, you can throw up pictures from pretty much any day of your life and be like “LOOK!  I POSTED!  SPECIAL MOMENTS WITH MY KIDS!”  and someone, somewhere, will be all “awwww, you have babies and they eat turkey.  So cute.”

And [...]

When I fall behind on work stuff, my tendency is to push life aside and throw myself into getting “caught up”.  I can’t stand the idea of letting people down or just barely making a deadline or meeting only the minimum requirements.
(Unless we’re talking about laundry.)
For the first time in forever, I went almost an [...]

Two weeks ago, I dragged two three children to the grocery store for our weekly shopping trip.
After they had endured more time than anyone should ever have to endure in a Wal-Mart, I took them to the nearby party supply store that had been converted into a costume shop for the Halloween season.
Emma had known [...]

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On Sunday we – meaning me, Jared, Devin and Emma – set out for a day of fall festivities at a local pumpkin patch.  The temperatures  here in Florida were actually fall like, and it was the first family outing we would all be on together since before Hell Month.  I grabbed two camers to [...]

This is what Emma looks like when she needs a haircut:

This is what Emma looked like last week, when she was way beyond needing a haircut:

This is what Emma looks like after she has finally gotten her hair cut:

And this:

And this:

And, OK, actually more like this:

Oh, so cute!  So short and not tangled!  So “yes, [...]

Someone is trying to kill me.
Possibly a Keebler Elf.
I woke up this morning two hours late and stumbled into my kitchen for coffee and microwaved eggs.  I stood at the counter between my refigerator and my stove, waiting for the familiar beep, beep letting me know my breakfast was ready.
And that’s when I saw it.
Something [...]

Friday night, there was this:
And this is Heather drinking absinthe in a fancy cafe in Atlanta.
And because she did it, I figured I would do it.  But do it cooler.  So I ordered an Absinthe Frappé. Because, I thought, an absinthe smoothie sounds awesome.  And if a frappuccino is a cappuccino frozen, then an absinthe [...]

The best time to make a drastic change to your appearance is right before you go and meet 1400 or so strangers for the first time.
Clearly.
Which is why I thought it was an awesome idea to lure Hilly over to my house Sunday night under the guise of hanging out and then proceed to force [...]

“Your test results were a little… unusual.”
Awesome.  Because that’s exactly the first thing you want to hear your doctor say when he walks into the room.
“Unusual?”
“Yes, well, there’s some things that are… strange.”
Strange and unusual.  Again – awesome.
My doctor quickly assured me that there a bunch of really bad things that he knew I did [...]

I woke up this morning dreading writing this post.
I got back late last night from a long weekend in Lexington, Kentucky.  I went to Lexington for “ConFab, Baby!” – a blogger houseparty hosted by Turnbaby and the man formerly known as Mr. Fabulous.  Everyone knows you can’t go to a blogger party without blogging about [...]

Saturday afternoon, I went to a baby shower.
I’ve been to a lot of baby showers, but this one was different.
This baby shower was for my beautiful friend Faiqa, who is a Pakistani American with a butt load of middle eastern friends.  And while you might not think that this fact alone is significant, think for [...]

The other day on twitter I informed the Internets that I was finally working through all of the pictures from my Dad’s visit to Florida a couple weeks ago.
Because that is the kind of interesting information I like to share with the world with modern technology.
And while you are mocking me for my mastery of [...]

You know, I was going to tell you about all of the craptastic stuff that keeps happening to me over the last 48 hours – but it really hasn’t been that bad.

I mean, yes, I got into a car accident.  My car is fucked right now because some lady ran a red light and then [...]