A farewell to being a Garden Girl
For the past 4 and 1/2 years, I have had the coolest "job." (Parenthesis will be for interpreting for non-scrapbookers.) I was asked to be a Garden Girl for Two Peas back in July 2006....
View ArticleBirthday Scrap Booking Give Away!
Dear Kelli, You must allow me to tell you how ardently I desire to wish you joy and felicitations on your Day of Birth. Yours, F. Darcy My blog and I share a birthday month and to celebrate, I am...
View ArticleWinner
My teeny tiny bladder and my memory conspired to remind me to post the winner of the scrapbook supply give away at 3:42 am. What were these guys up to at, say, 7:42 pm? But it seems appropraite now,...
View ArticleKelli Crowe Jones's Diary: Week 15 & 16
I WILL Exercise 3 to 5 days a week - Have begun morning breathing and stretching exercises. Not completely new, as have always breathed and stretched in mornings, but now in more organized, planned...
View ArticleDear favorite pair of jeans,
Dear favorite pair of jeans, I did not see this coming. I thought things were so perfect between us. But now, I feel like you've changed. Or I've changed. (Although, who are we kidding, we both know I...
View Article"Don't make me scrapbook about this...."
ME - Max, if you do not stop being gross, I am going to make a whole scrapbook page about the gross things you have done today. MAX - Well, ok. But just don't put it on Facebook, o.k? Modern...
View ArticleKelli Crowe Jones's Diary: Week 17 & 18 & 19
I WILL Exercise 3 to 5 days a week - Often unspoken perk of sharing health related news with peers...acquaintances and people just met in the grocery store line.....have gleaned excellent advise on...
View ArticleHomeschool: End of the Year De-Brief
The public schools, home school programs & chess clubs are all wrapping up this week around here. (ie: Every project, test & party is all going to happen on the same week so that by the time it...
View ArticleKelli Crowe Jones's Diary: Week 20
I WILL Exercise 3 to 5 days a week - Am either power walking, juicing and on virtual kosher health bandwagon. Or. Eating bacon by the bag while curled up on the sofa, watching television. Take my...
View ArticleSo why don't I enjoy Twitter?
When I log onto my twitter account, it is like reading someone else's outgoing phone texts: It isn't to me. It has their own shorthand I don't understand. There seem to be a lot of half conversations....
View ArticleIt was as if she had lost her will to blog....
But as sure as the Atlanta humidity will frizz your hair, her self interest piqued again and just like that the blogging draught was over.
View ArticleAnxiety - Or - What I I did on my summer vacation
So I had a panic attack last summer. Room spinning, hyperventilating, feeling like I was hot and cold, nauseous. I took me a week to feel normal again. My Dr. suggested I get on an anti-anxiety...
View ArticleFound peach
John David found a peach. On the ground. At the gas station. And he picked it up. And brought it home. And pealed it. And ate it. I was out on "found a peach." The boys were out on "at...
View ArticleDear Harry Potter Kids,
Dear Harry Potter Kids (Now Adults), Thanks for beng nice, decent people. Really, you spent what most of us call as the "awkward years" or the time when you make a lot of mistakes as being professional...
View ArticleKelli Crowe Jones's Diary: Week 37
I WILL Exercise 3 to 5 days a week - Started to work out on elliptical machine but nothing good on television. Take my vitamins - Iron x2 a day. Excellent. Easy to remember to take as I become dizzy...
View ArticleKelli Crowe Jones's Diary: Week 44
Kelli Crowe Jones's Diary: Week 44 I WILL Exercise 3 to 5 days a week - Pre-pilates (simple, daily stretching exercises that are not quite working out but feel nice) going smoothly. Take my vitamins -...
View ArticleHomeschool moment: Being French
Me: When you said that just now, you sounded French. Max: That's not French..... (Draw, erase, draw again, cut.....) Max: This is French. Croissant. Crow-sauuuuunt. (Clearly, he is a natrual linguist.)...
View ArticleI have a really good reason for not cleaning the house today....
Last week I spent a lot of time meal planning and cooking. Alex threw up. (O.k, probably not my fault and more like a stomach virus.) This weekend I went on walks (in the actual outdoors) and even...
View ArticleOf course we have high maintenance hamsters...
You know you have high maintenance hamsters when it requires safety warnings for the neighbors who are feeding them for you over Thanksgiving. Sweet little Hammy. Our "free" hamster who only needed a...
View ArticleBook Review: An Arranged Marriage by Jan Hahn
I used to think that one of the best compliments I could give a book was to say I read the whole thing in one sitting because it was so good. I read the first 3/4ths of An Arranged Marriage...
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