From my vantage point, it seems hard to believe that today is the one year anniversary of An Island Mom. One year ago I sat, surrounded by lists of post ideas and a few rough drafts, trying to figure out how to make this whole thing tangible to anyone other than myself. And now, here […]
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Things I Love About Island Living: #7
I love how a day at the beach feels exactly the way it sounds.
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March Random Island Family Updates
1. This is just a mom thing, but I’m getting the biggest kick out of the fact that my younger son, in the space of five days, managed to lose both his top front teeth. He’s a very smiley and goofy sort of child, so I can’t look at him now when he’s smiling and […]
When I Am an Old Woman
Two days before we left Chicago to move to one of the Carolina islands, the owner of the duplex we had rented there for the off-season suddenly decided that his duplex wasn’t really ready for renters. He did, however, offer to let us rent his nearby condo while we searched for a new place, an […]
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Sharks And Cowgirls
Last Thursday marked our first trip to the beach in swimsuits for 2012. Baby-girl proudly wore her new pink princess swimsuit and ran out to the ocean, squealing as the water hit her legs, begging me to move farther and farther into the Atlantic. The ocean felt notably warmer than the week before, so we […]
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A Weekend At The Old House
As I mentioned yesterday, we spent last weekend back at the old house. We had some business to wrap up, including finishing the spring cleaning and preparing the house for new tenants. Have I discussed how much I love cleaning up after other people? It pleases me so, in an opposite of that sort of […]