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Weighing In: Crashing Under Chaos

I promised a bathing suit shot, and here it is. As much as I wanted to go with one more angled and concealing, I’ve decided to buck up and give the full-on, real-deal view.

{ big deep breath }

here it is, as promised. the bathing suit shot. aaaahhhh!

We’ve been back from our beach vacation for about a week now, and I had so been looking forward to settling in to some food normalcy, but when we arrived home, we learned that our floor refinishing project that was

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Sunday Shortie: What I Learned on Vacation

Here’s a new little feature for you, brought to you on Sundays. It will be a quick 3-5 item bullet list on any random topic I feel so inclined to write about. First up:

Lessons I learned on vacation. Dates can happen in 10-minute chunks while someone else is watching your kiddo(s). Planning outings that make 7+ people happy is hard to do. Flexibility goes a long way. Vacationing with your parents, in-laws and toddlers saves money, and gives your brain a creative challenge for finding time for romance. It may

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Weighing In: Silly Jen, Vacation is Not Your Enemy

We are on vacation. Sean, me, the iToddler, my parents, Sean’s parents and some friends of ours, all in a big ole beach house in Waves, NC. It’s beautiful and relaxing and hot and perfect.

And it’s chock full of snack food. Goldfish crackers, graham crackers, hunks of cheese, Oreos, some random My Little Pony fruit snacks, Veggies Straws, donuts, muffins…

Oh my!

um, yeah, i know this is sideways. my laptop has no way to rotate it. ha!

 

 

I need to confess, I was

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Surprises, Cheesy Bread and the Book of Faces

Tomorrow, the fam and I are hitting the road in order to surprise my dad for an early Father’s Day thing. Even though my mom is willing to make the trip north, my dad’s not big on the city and so we haven’t seen him since Christmas. It’s been too long.

My dad is awesome. The best. He’s a sappy, gushy kind of guy, and has mad skills.

Don’t believe me?

Well my daddy built this here car. From scratch. And it runs. And it’s won awards — and it’s

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