Right now, I’m watching the Auburn/Alabama game. I’m super annoyed by it all. By our coaching debacle, by the announcers who are being assholes, by the fact that I know Nick Saban’s going to run the score up to 100 if he can. By all of it. Holidays annoy me. They’re not relaxing at all. […]

That’s obviously what this is… what this crazy life is that I seem to be leading right now looks like. It HAS to be a mid-life crisis. There’s really no explanation for the fact that I’m doing crazy things that I SWORE I would never do. Like planning to run a half marathon in February. […]

Conversations are swirling in my head, making about as much sense as they did during those 3 long days 9 years ago. A lot of words were said. Hope was tossed around. Hope was taken right back, like that “gimme five,up high, down low, too slow” game. The thoughts in my head, they’re getting knotted […]

This past weekend, while in North Carolina visiting Jason’s mom, we had the opportunity to go to a church service with her. She goes to a beautiful Episcopal church. I’ve only ever been to Episcopal weddings and a few funerals… never an actual church service. I know enough about the Episcopal tradition to know that […]

Sometimes I’m reminded that in spite of knowing I’m the mother to two children, I have become a mother of one. I don’t mean this in the “I’ve physically lost a son and only have one kid now” way. I mean this in the “I can’t handle more than one kid at a time” way. […]

Growing up in my house, there was a very well known event that haunted me. It was the Olive Sandwich Rite of Passage. I knew about this from the time I was small. In order to “leave home” for college, my sister and I would have to eat an olive sandwich. Sounds harmless, right? Wondering […]

Remember how I said yesterday that I don’t talk about religion? Well, apparently I lied. We had a bit of a miracle in the Anthoine house yesterday afternoon and I just have to share. Around 5 yesterday afternoon, I threw Henry in the shower. If you read about bath time, you know I literally had to THROW […]

A long long time ago, in a Galaxy far far away (known as Middle Georgia) there was a girl with two very small circles of friends. She had friends at school and friends she went to church with, most of whom went to a different school. Then the girl went off to college. So she […]

I’m hooking up with Fadra again for Stream of Consciousness Sunday but I’m calling it Stream of Laziness since I’m feeling so ultra-lazy now that I’m home from Florida. So here I go, 5 minutes of brain dump. Thursday afternoon Henry and I left for Florida with my mom and dad. Well, we went to […]