A Christmas recap

There are 145 photos in my 'Christmas 2012' Flickr folder. I swear, I'm not going to subject you to all of them. But we had such a great time, and I love Christmas at 'home' so much, it's hard. So, … [Read more...]

Blogcation.

I was already planning on taking my usual end-of-the-year sabbatical from blogging {just like I did last year} ... but after the events of last Friday, and how I've felt this weekend, I'm pushing it … [Read more...]

Yesterday.

I woke up this morning, eyes puffy behind my glasses, and felt this incredible need to write. To get some of my feelings, and thoughts, and memories down into this digital journal ... so please bear … [Read more...]

Merry Effing Christmas

Behold - the Tottums' 2012 Christmas card**: keepin' it real, y'all. ** This card went out to all of our FRIENDS. We're not stupid enough to send something like this out to certain family … [Read more...]

Obligatory family holiday photo shoot post …

Y'all, I don't know how photographers do it. I'm sure, every year come October/November their email accounts pretty much EXPLODE on impact from all the crazy people who have to have family photos done … [Read more...]

Stalking is bad – and other parental lessons.

It's that time again. That time of year when all of my social media feeds light up with one certain little hellion clad in red. Flour snow angels, fishing for goldfish in the toilet, canoodling with … [Read more...]

Win your gifts for others … or you. Whichever.

Can we all agree that this time of year is CRAZY? Not only am I several days late posting this giveaway ... I completely forgot about it as a whole. Blogging FAIL. That said, I met some amazing … [Read more...]

Christmas Lists – 2012

Once again, I have disrespected the turkey. And once again, I don't give a damn. Look, Tottums likes to make lists - and shopping for kids toys is SO MUCH FUN. Making lists of them? Kinda like my … [Read more...]

That one time when everything just *worked*

Not in a million, trillion years would I have expected the photo above to come out of our visit to Santa this week. The Wednesday before Christmas, at dinnertime, with a cranky 3 YO who wanted nothing … [Read more...]

A very bloggy Christmas post.

We're just about a week away from Christmas (faaaaaaaaaaark), and I'm about to spontaneously explode from the plethora of things I haven't gotten done. Let's explore that, shall we? Things that I … [Read more...]

Top 5 holiday Pins that I won’t get to this year.

I swear, yesterday was Halloween ... right? How is it like, 3 weeks from Christmas?! I am not done shopping, I'm done decorating, hell, we don't even have a tree yet! Here are some other things I … [Read more...]

Decorating Mesh: a Christmas DIY tutorial!

Yeah, that was all me. I'm super awesome crafty like that. Okay, no, not really. My mom (being the Christmas decorating guru that she is) found this awesome ... stuff. Or, as the interwebz calls … [Read more...]

Holiday Truths.

1. I cannot listen to ‘O Holy Night’ without crying. 2. I cannot watch Bing Crosby dressed in powder blue feathers and garters without cracking up. 3. I HAVE to have a real tree at Christmas. I … [Read more...]

The Froggy and the Mouse’s Christmas lists 2011~

Disclaimer: Yeah yeah yeah, 'but what about the TURKEY??!!!1!' and all that shitz. Blah blah blah. Got it out of your system? Here we gooooooooo! First Christmas with two kids ... wheeeeeeeeeee! … [Read more...]