Dressed snug as a bug in a “new” hand-me-down super soft jacket, waiting on her baby cousins. Emmie randomly decided she wanted to wear her mask today, which she does sometimes, because some of her friends do it.
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Emerson Got Stitches Tonight Read More »
I’m feeling super tired again tonight, and ready to just turn my brain off, so I’m gonna keep this short and sweet. Plus, by now y ‘all know the basic ins & outs of our day-to-day routine anyways, so there’s not much explanation needed, right?
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Dancing After Dinner Read More »
Jeff got up and dressed and out of the house with us first thing this morning (which is rare for him since he’s still WFH), and Emmie was glad to have him at school drop-off with us!
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The baby triplets weren’t there at the same time as us this morning, which made Emmie a little sad, but she still had a good drop-off, even with out them. And she looked super cute and nice & warm in this new outfit Nana got her for Christmas.
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We’re Halfway There! Read More »
At bedtime last night, Emerson requested that we have egg sandwiches for breakfast this morning. So once I could get up and moving a little bit, she helped me out in the kitchen, and we made her requested egg sandwiches!
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Emerson and I woke up early around 6:30am. We watched a little bit of Frozen 2, and then had cereal together for breakfast. It was storming super bad early this morning, thundering so loud it was literally shaking the entire house. And then of course it proceeded to rain & storm all day, so we spent the entire day indoors. Jeff and the boys of course slept through it, so we finally woke them up around 8:30am.
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Kitchen Contraptions Read More »
I got up early with Tater Tot today, around 6:15ish or so. We snuggled and watched Pocahontas. She ate some “crunch crunch” and I had a couple of Ego waffles. Around 8am, we got an early start of chores and cooking, and made ourselves a Funfetti cake!
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2nd Annual Low Country Boil Read More »
Jeff and Emmie got up early and let me sleep in again today, all the way until 8am! So once I was awake and moving, I made the three of us some egg sandwiches for breakfast, with a little help from my tiniest assistant. (We didn’t bother waking the boys, because they’re too grumpy to be woken up just for breakfast, plus they didn’t want to go to Walmart with us anyways.)
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Goodbye, Adios, Ciao, Adieu Read More »
Y’all, 2020 is finally coming to an end. In an “unprecedented year” like we’ve literally never seen before, I’m sure many of us are ready to bid it farewell, in hopes that things will look different/better in 2021. As we all know, this has been the weirdest year of most of our lives, and although I am ready to see it go, I know that things will not magically snap back to “before” when 1/1/21 rolls around. And again, as strange and sometimes terrible as 2020 was, there were also some great moments too.
I’m so glad that I’ve been keeping this online journal for 2.5 years now, with the ability to go back and read random posts and relive those random days. I made recap posts like this one for the past two years, and not only do I love making these, y’all love reading these too. If you’d like to relive the past with me, you can check out the old posts for 2018 and 2019 here, and now we’ll get going on 2020!
Although there were a few days where I didn’t blog (due to website issues or pregnancy exhaustion), I always tried to make up for those days by posting twice the following day, which means I wrote a total of 368 posts this year! (And this is my 1,000th all-time post!!) People have viewed my blog from 55 different countries, with a little over 46,000 total views just this year! With a whopping 103,000+ all-time views!
So today, on New Year’s Eve, let’s wrap up 2020 by highlighting some of my favorite posts from each month…
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A Look Back at 2020 Read More »
As I do every year, I want to recap some of the books I’ve read this past year. (In case you’d like to check them out, here are my previous years’ posts for 2018 and 2019.) I always set a goal or challenge on Goodreads, and once again, I not only met but slightly exceeded my goal. Goodreads is basically just a way to track books you have already read, or want to read. You can read reviews, and rate the books you’ve read, and follow favorite authors or friends. I’ve been using it consistently since 2014, and I love being able to track my progress! Lists are a big part of my life. (Other Enneagram Type 1’s can agree with me on this point, I’m sure.) I thought I would set a lower goal around 50-75 this year, but then I ended up reading more once the pandemic hit, so I upped it to my usual 100 books. My final total? I read 102 books this year!
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My Year in Books – 2020 Read More »
Emmie got up early at 6am as usual, and Jeff got up to hang out with her. But then after I got ready and came into the living room to check on them, I found them like this, with Emmie watching tv and Jeff snoring away…
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All four baby girls were so excited to see each other this morning. I LOVE how much they love each other. The babies all repeat “Emmie, Emmie, Emmie” when they see her, and it’s precious. They say “Emmie, Emmie, Emmie” when they go to sit on the curb because all three of them want to sit by her.
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Double Dishwashers Read More »
Y’all. The sky this morning! Emmie was asking about the sky and the sun and the clouds, and asked if the sun was waking up from sleep and said, “I think the clouds is it’s bed.”
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Pullen Family Christmas 2020 Read More »
Emmie and I got up around 6:30 this morning, cuddled for a while watching “The Lorax,” and then decided we were hungry and needed breakfast. She always loves to help, and she’s so very sweet about it.
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Baked Ziti & Brothers Read More »
Jeff got up to do the early shift with Emmie this morning, and I slept till about 7:45 or so. When I came in the living room, things were an absolute mess with presents and stuff all over the place.
And in typical fashion, in the midst of a million new things, Emmie was playing in the empty carboard box. She had a blanket and pillow and baby and books in there, and she was pretending she was camping. She told me, “You have to go to a different campsite. I’m at the campsite called Tallahassee. But you have to go to a different campsite called Zabodebo’s.”
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Afternoon Sunlight & Copy Cat Zuppa Read More »
As always, today has been a great, but very long, tiring day. And since it’s almost 10pm already, I’m going to try to not “talk” quite as much, and just dump a TON of photos instead, and let them speak for themselves. Between all the family, we took over 150+ photos, and I’ve narrowed it down to less than 70, so I did what I could 🙂
We had our Christmas with our tiny 3-fam early this morning, which was quiet and intimate and very special. We then picked up my step-brother and went over to my parents’ house to meet up with the rest of the family, where we stayed the whole day.
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Christmas Day 2020 Read More »
Well, she moved her final piece of the advent calendar today, and put the angel in her spot at the top of the tree!
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Candlelight Christmas Eve Read More »
After today, only one more ornament to go on our little advent calendar! Sheppy was hanging out on the bookshelf this morning, where he seems to have made some new friends overnight.
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Cheeseburger Craving Read More »
Sheppy has been travelling to some hard-to-reach places lately, and although Emmie can always find him, she can’t always reach him! But look at her up on those little tippy toes!
We got to school just 30 seconds or so before the baby girls, and as always, everyone was excited to see each other. Today was Riley’s day around town with her Daddy, so only three of the girls went down the hallway with Ms. Q. She told us later that Emmie looked around and noticed one was missing and said, “Hey Q, where’s the other one!?” haha so funny 🙂
In the car on the way home, she started talking about “her” little baby. And she said, “I’ll take care of her if she needs something, like if she needs her little bottle or her pajamas.”
And then later she asked “Why Santa doesn’t bring presents if you’re bad?” So I just said something like, “Well because you have to be good. Have you been good?” And she said, “Yes because I’m so sweet and special.” And I said, “Yes baby, you’re VERY sweet and VERY special.”
I got Jeff to start some chicken breasts in the Instant Pot, and then I boiled some rotini noodles & heated up a jar of Alfredo sauce, and topped it with fresh shredded Parmesan cheese. And wow, it was delicious. Emerson specifically requested a big girl bowl, and she also picked out her own big girl fork. We all ate every single bite, joined the “clean bowl club,” and went back for a little bit more. And one of us even begged off bites out of someone else’s bowl…
Please make sure to zoom in and look close at that tiny little tongue poking out.
I used to always wash dishes after Emmie went down to sleep, but I do NOT have the energy for that so late anymore. So last night and tonight I’ve decided to take just 10-15 minutes after dinner to take care of it while Emmie plays. And that seems to be working better. So after getting everything cleaned up, I went back to Emmie’s room where her and Daddy were playing, and she said, “Hi, I’m a nurse. What happened to you?” (She specifically put on her little while sweater because she wanted to pretend it was a white doctor’s coat.) And she was using her wand to administer medicines.
There were LOTS of tickles and giggles at bedtime tonight, but also LOTS of snuggles and hugs and kisses too.
She was sweet, but she also called us back in a few times afterwards. So after Jeff went back for random things 4 times, and I went back 2 times, I threatened her I’d turn off her dinosaur ceiling lamp if she called us back for any other bogus nonsense, and it worked 😉
Jeff and I started watching “The Santa Clause” last night, and got about an hour in, so we’re gonna finish that up tonight, and then head off to bed soon.
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