Tag: Alex
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Building a Raised Bed Garden in 147 Easy Steps
Decide you want a garden in your backyard. Wait approximately 47 weeks, until your dad sends you a text message telling you that you need to do it now or not at all. Wait two more weeks. Choose a Saturday when you and your husband aren’t cooking dinner for 2 million people. On that Saturday,…
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The Neti Pot Song
As is the case with most weird things, when I first heard about Neti-Pots, I freaked out and laugh-cried and then went out and bought one. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Neti Pots, it’s a plastic tea kettle that you fill with a warm saline solution that you pour into your sinuses.…
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It’s ‘Little House on the Prairie’ Up in Here
Well, we got rid of Netflix. A few weeks ago, I was the subject of a brutal three-inquisitor questioning over why we don’t have cable. I had actually convinced my IT guy for a minute that we didn’t even have internet, but I told him the truth once I felt that he was ready to follow me…
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2012: A Year in Review
Well, friends- Nothing exciting has happened this year. Check back with us in 2013. Love, Beth and Alex I’M JUST KIDDING. Gosh, you’re just so gullible. Yesterday, our pastor made us turn to our neighbor and talk about how we would define this past year. It only took me about .2 seconds to come up…
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Awkward Family Photos
I often decide that it would be really funny to ______________ only to find out as I’m doing it that it’s horribly, horribly, “I’m-gonna-die” embarrassing. I don’t know why I do this over and over again but apparently, I just can’t learn. Case in point? Please view my driver’s license for my 18th birthday.Oh, sure.…
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The Demise of Alex’s Car (or Alex’s First Wreck)
I run my car into something at least once every two years. I’ve already succeeded this year by running into the garage at work. Alex, on the other hand, has never been in a wreck, which I find amazing and annoying at the same time. Around the time we got married, Alex’s dad traded with…
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Death Wears Purple Tennis Shoes: Week 5
Imma be honest with you. I don’t know what week number we’re on. We haven’t been running en schedule like we should be because we’re worried that our tennis shoes will melt to the asphalt AND our schedule has been so busy that, at this point, I would welcome the end of the world because I…
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Five Years
Today marks my fifth wedding anniversary. Five years! Aren’t we supposed to receive porcelain or beanie babies or something weird for our fifth? You guys have until the end of the day to celebrate us properly. I had to describe how we met to the home study worker and I had trouble doing it without sounding…
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Death Wears Purple Tennis Shoes: Week 2
This week’s theme is “Wise Family Circus Takes it on the Road”. Yes, that’s right folks. Step on up and see these appropriately-dressed pseudo-runners as they attempt to follow a half-marathon training program. Let’s watch on: -While waiting for my run to begin, I noticed that my tennis shoes were untied. So I bent over to…
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Run Like You Mean It
Alright. Alex and I are committed- to one another, to this adoption, and…to running a half-marathon at the end of October to raise money for aforementioned adoption. Wowee. If you knew my long, tawdry history with running, you would be surprised that I would commit to running anything anywhere. To be honest, some times I…
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Dear Daughter: Your Dad
Dear little girl- Today is Father’s Day. Americans celebrate by giving tool chests and foot rubs, lunches and homemade cards. Pops and I are celebrating today by continuing to slog through the adoption paperwork. We’re celebrating by thinking of you. Your (new) dad is currently only thinking of himself as a half-dad, but we’re fretting over your…
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Unsolicited Advice for My Sister #6: Team Wise
My husband is kind of nerdy. Of course, I love this because it makes him unpretentious, interesting, and a perfect compliment to his wife, who is also a big nerd. We talk about our poor adoptive children who will think that talking in funny voices and breaking out into club dancing (at least a close…