My mother has a song for everything. By trade, she’s an elementary school music teacher, but she has loved music her whole life. No matter the situation, she can break into the perfect song to match the occasion. When I was a teenager, her songs sent me diving under restaurant tables in total embarrassment. […]
Rewriting My Story
A few years ago, I thought I had life and career and marriage and motherhood all figured out. Feel free to laugh. I was the classic example of “Man plans, God laughs.” When my story changed drastically, it was hard to accept at first. My original life plan was gone, and in its place was […]
Lobster Murder 101
There are few things my husband Jeff enjoys more than a delectable fresh seafood dinner, preferably starring a big, juicy lobster. Long ago, we gave up the idea of going to restaurants that don’t serve us from a drive-thru window. We have three kids, and two of them are wild boys whose idea of a […]
Carrie On Y’all’s Redneck Therapy Session
People handle stress in many ways…some see counselors or therapists, some exercise, some drink or do drugs. Some people talk about their problems, and others lock their pain away deep inside. To relieve stress, I write, cook, or do something crafty (sometimes with a drink in hand)… But sometimes I make questionable decisions to lighten […]
I Miss My Kindergartener
Over the past two years, I have made a nice little social media/online niche for myself documenting my awkward navigation of stay-at-home motherhood. For all the internet to see, I’ve laughed, cried, and written as a form of therapy while my boys destroyed our house, broke toys, swung from curtains still hanging on their rods […]
You’ve Still Got It, Mama
Someday I’d like to introduce my kids to ME, the ME I was before they were born. That girl was fun. She read and wrote all the time and had dinner with friends in cute bistros. She and her boyfriend (now husband and father to the three kids) got lost on back roads in her […]
Hometown Interloper
I’m home this week. Not my home in Arkansas where we now live, but back home, in my mom’s house in Tennessee, the house where I grew up, with my three kids and my dog. (The hubs is working out of town.) I’ve visited many times since I left for college in (gulp) 1996, […]
Carrie: Giving Bad Home Haircuts Since 1988
This is a picture of me when I turned 10. I’m looking down at my birthday cake, and my bangs are well shorter than society or style recommended, even for 1988. This was a running theme throughout my childhood. When my bangs got too long for my taste, I would sneak into my parents’ bathroom, […]
Living in Tiny Houses with Children
If you are an HGTV fan (I am obsessed), then you’ve no doubt been alerted to the tiny house craze that is sweeping the country. Nomads and down-sizers everywhere are selling their suburban sprawls and moving into the most adorably constructed dwellings on the planet. I’m not gonna lie. As a non-cleaner, I’m on board […]
Share.the.Love Kidsclub: A New Way to Play in Conway, Arkansas
While booking my son’s 5th birthday party at Share.the.Love, I was able to sit down with owner Erin Conner to find out about Conway’s newest kid-friendly place to be. When I hear about something cool my three kids and I can do, we try it. Walking into Share.the.Love Kidsclub, a new place for children and […]
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