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Do you think Dorothy would’ve returned to Kansas if she’d been *raised* in Oz? Journal of a New Orleans writer bringing up her bebes among the many magical and monstrous things that happen in the Crescent City.

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Savi At Three

May 7, 2012 Journal

Today is Savi’s birthday. My youngest is THREE. It seems like just yesterday he was this wee gummy bear in my tummy… Now he’s shooting me with water guns while wearing a wicked grin. And I LOVE it. Because he’s so mine.

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Dye Flowers, Dye

April 30, 2012 Journal

It’s bad enough that I have to think about what might be in the food I eat when I’m buying it, but now I have to think about what’s in my flowers too?! Take last week. Q was returning from a business trip so I grabbed some flowers on my way to the check-out line [...]

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2 Blocks From My Front Door

April 23, 2012 Journal

One of my favorite bloggers, Design Mom, is doing this series called “Love The Place You Live” where you explore something in your area and blog about it. She lives in rural France so you should really check out how beautiful her dispatches are. Anyway, when I pondered my first post for this I realized [...]

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Street Festivals

April 10, 2012 Journal

New Orleans is known all over the world for its big festivals like Jazz Fest, French Quarter Fest, Essence Music Fest and Voodoo Fest. But I’ve only been to three of those ONCE. I’m not big on crowds, and I really have to talk myself up to walk around in direct sunlight for several hours. [...]

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Baby Nursery, Most Popular

March 23, 2012 Journal

It’s Friday. I’m going to play. But before I go… The daily post. I was going through my Flickr stats and it looks like my baby nursery photo set still gets the most traffic. It’s kind of funny because they aren’t even good quality or properly sized. I think there’s just a lot of crazy [...]

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Seersucker Savi

March 22, 2012 Journal

I’m being a cheating little shit by doing all these photo posts, but I worked my butt off writing today and I don’t have the brain cells to spare. Anyway, I love this photo of Savi. He was 4 months old and wearing his first seersucker, and I couldn’t resist nibbling him. The look on [...]

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Lastours

March 21, 2012 Journal

Digging through the old trip photos for yesterday’s post got me all wanderlusty. I took this one at Châteaux de Lastours in southern France. It was a pretty remote site (about 10 miles north of the city of Carcassonne and 60+ miles east of Toulouse) and we were the first American travelers the tour guide [...]

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Sick Day & Quality Time

March 19, 2012 Journal

Eva had a fever all weekend so I kept her home today. She seems fine though, and played around the house while I wrote an article this morning. As I was editing the piece I realized how shockingly behaved my 4-year-old is. She self-occupied all morning! She drew, painted, played games, did preschool workbooks, watched [...]

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Little Cow

March 16, 2012 Journal

What reason to make these things other than to dress them funny and laugh? Savi at 6 months old, Halloween 2009. (Yes, that is a bottle of TruBlood in his lap)

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Growing Up In The City

March 15, 2012 Journal

2010 Eva: Mommy, I play in front? Me: No baby, there’s too much traffic on this street. You might get hit. Eva: *hangs head, goes inside*   2011 Eva: Mommy can I ride my tricycle on the sidewalk? Me: Yeah, I’ll come with you. Eva: No, by myself. Me: No way. There is always a [...]

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