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Weekend Recap: Arnold Palmer Invitational (…with vodka, please)
We live right outside of the Bay Hill golf community in Orlando. Once a year, the entire community is flooded with tour buses and “Arnie’s Army” as they celebrate the PGA’s Arnold Palmer…
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The Mascot Games
This past Saturday, we took the kids downtown to see the Mascot Games. I had no idea what this was. Chris got tickets through work, and we figured, “Why not?” Turns out, it…
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Ways to Help My City
I’ve continued to post about random pieces of our lives here for the past two days, but make no mistake that underneath all of that perceived “normalcy” my family, my community, my city,…
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When God is Tired of Our Prayers
This morning I woke up to headlines that made me sick to my stomach. 20 people killed at a gay nightclub. And not in some far away, remote, Podunk town. It was right…
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Happy 7th Birthday, Bean!
Last Wednesday, Bean turned seven years old. SEVEN. As in, the number between six and eight. As in, WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN?! On his birthday, we sprung him out of school and went…
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Gracie’s 5th Birthday Recap
Happy Easter, friends! A better blogger would have scheduled an Easter recap on Easter Sunday instead of a birthday recap. But… half-assed. So instead, let me just tell you that we had a…
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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
I am a firm believer in celebrating the end of the week on Friday nights. There’s nothing more disappointing to me than looking forward to Friday all week and then going home and…
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If You Give a Teacher a Summer Vacation…
Last Friday, I had to go to the grocery store. Simple enough task, right? We had a ton of food leftover from the Fourth of July, and our family had been eating hot…
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Art Festival Goodness
This weekend, we loaded the kids up on Saturday morning and headed down to the Lake Eola Arts Festival. Lake Eola is this giant lake in the middle of downtown Orlando. The city…
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An Unexpected Staycation
This weekend was a four-day weekend for me. On Friday we had a teacher planning day. At our school, it is optional for you to come in as long as you’ve gotten your…
