we need to move the djembe…

ah ….. The unbearable cuteness of being….Ginny.  She does or says something cute every day, but some of them need to be recorded for posterity (or for embarrassing her with when she starts dating). That said, here are a few cute things Ginny has said or done recently She has started singing.  The first recognizable [...]

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overheard at the russell’s

at our house nap time on a Saturday still means that even mama and papa are gonna try to get a nap. So there we were, both being very still and quiet, listening to Ginny on the monitor. She bounced for a while, and then started just laughing and laughing. Deep belly laughs. then, from [...]

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bits and pieces

I’ve just spent four full days without any dairy products of any kind in my system. I am gonna go insane very soon if I can’t have cheese. White Mexican cheese dip specifically. This wasn’t a completely random decision. I had all four of my wisdom teeth out on Thursday morning.  Whenever I asked what [...]

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put out the fire and tear down the walls

Recently I realized that there was something missing in my life. Some walls that I had built, some anger I had harbored for years was gone.  Just gone.  Crumbled. Vanished. ……..gone. Had I been working on removing it?  Not really.  I had prayed a couple of times about it, but I wasn’t thinking about it [...]

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my version of global warming

happens every time I see this face And then there is this and this and then there is this Ginny always wants to share.  Even when it is just a handful of snow. Wouldn’t you melt too?  yup.  I thought so. Here’s the new words report for this month – broccoli (currently pronounced “bah-key”)  as [...]

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a visit to hooters

yes. we took our 16 month old baby girl to Hooters. please don’t call out the Department of child Services on me yet okay. there were extenuating circumstances. We were in Knoxville, visiting friends.  Lots of friends.  We had been bouncing about from party to party (not boozing, just social gatherings) and the occasional break [...]

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a little bit about me

…As if you needed to know more! I saw this little questionnaire on Amanda’s blog today and thought it would be fun to do. I kinda have blog block.  There are a number of devotional posts simmering in the back of my head right now, and Halloween photos are not ready to happen yet, so [...]

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somewhere there is a man…..

Somewhere there is a man… Who is cursing my name. How do I know?  Well.  There is a story. A couple of weeks ago Atlanta had a flood. You may have heard about it.  Creeks and rivers washed over bridges, roads fell apart.  Every where if a road was low lying, it was swamped. Two [...]

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weird question

so, I’m sitting in a hard wooden pew. At the funeral of a fine upstanding man of God.  His Granddaughter is one of my dearest friends and we needed to be there for her. But we also respected Grandpa, so it was a no-brainer. My husband is sitting next to me holding Ginny.  Ginny is [...]

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well hail did freeze over…

Okay. This weekend went better than I expected on a number of fronts. First off I took out that wretched pony tail while I was still at work on Friday.  I went to the bathroom armed with a hairbrush and an iron determination that I would come out of there with hair that looked at [...]

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