Abbie

Even The Universe Finds Us Ridiculous

November 9, 2012

My husband and I have been together since we were kids in rural Michigan.  Our families still share vegetables, (mostly because they want to rub it in each others faces who’s came in first and who has the biggest) and my husband never had a washer and dryer growing up.  Sundays were laundromat days with [...]

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Our Character on Character

September 23, 2012

Character on Character: Our eight year-old Peter and I spend a great deal of time in the school parking lots.  We are either waiting after we drop off his brothers at the middle school or waiting to pick them up.  Sometimes we play games, usually listening to music, and he likes to read to me [...]

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Blogger Idol

September 17, 2012

I can’t believe I am doing this. I am still trying to find my “like” button on my new self hosted site and I somehow think I am now qualified to audition for… Blogger Idol I am afraid my “like” button is gone forever but if you have ever “liked” my stories before please head [...]

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Birth of a Blog

September 2, 2012

By talking to myself I am ensuring my external hard drive keeps the memories that my mind sometimes cannot remember. When I looked back at my photographs I knew I needed to tell the story. My blog was born.

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Introducing Us

August 21, 2012

I want to create a place for people to check after they have read the days news in the car pickup line at school or on the side of a practice field and now you need a smile.

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Summer Camp

August 20, 2012

I went to summer camp for the first time when I was their age.

That is what I kept chanting to myself every time I had the thought to throw them back into the car and drive them to Disney World so I wouldn’t have to leave them with strangers

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Funny Ending to AWKWARD and a Lesson For Us All

August 14, 2012

We all get things in our teeth. We all get boogers. We all have boobies. Just don’t have pictures of your OWN things as in food in teeth, boogers in nose or YOUR boobies on YOUR phone. OH, and NEVER, ever, leave your phone with a group of teenagers without a password on it.

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Awkward! What do I do Now?

August 12, 2012

This does not change the fact that I just got a naked topless picture of a mom I know from my boys school.

A pair of boobies staring at me that I find myself studying and concluding that those are indeed her boobies.

Holy-Mother-of-God. What do I do?

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Things Every Mom Says Or Just Mine

August 10, 2012

“Honey, I HAD you to do the dishes. You should be thanking the dishes. It is because of the dishes you exist.”

Every year I think my mother was smarter than the year before.

Here is a story about my mom called “Back Back Before You Could Just Go And Buy Boobies” that includes the obvious mention of boobs and chicken poop and how you can use one to get the other.

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Ten Stupid Things I Learned at BlogHer 2012

August 7, 2012

We wished we had someone with more experience to talk to but it turns out those with more experience were out together trying to get away from the people trying to “crack into their nut.” I get it. I have long time girlfriends too and I am sure these women have amazing relationships. Do I sound jealous? I am not because I really do get it. They have worked very hard to learn what they have learned and I am sure they had some bumps and bruises along the way.

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