tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16116744824842153132024-02-07T18:52:50.625-05:00Look. Snap. Love.Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748189532413119943noreply@blogger.comBlogger396125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611674482484215313.post-90787842180179408922013-12-01T20:47:00.000-05:002013-12-01T20:47:08.769-05:00Happy Advent!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Remy's face as John was lighting the candle was priceless. Priceless.<br />
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748189532413119943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611674482484215313.post-23429849358276466432013-11-29T20:34:00.000-05:002013-11-29T20:34:14.140-05:00Josephine's Baptism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We welcomed Josephine Rae into the Catholic church on November 24th, 2013. She screamed her way through approximately 80% of it. Girl's got a glorious set of lungs.<br />
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This was our family's <a href="http://looksnaplove.blogspot.com/2013/01/holiday-wrap-up.html">2nd baptism</a> in less than a year. How blessed are we?<br />
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748189532413119943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611674482484215313.post-34662473994870762852013-11-15T12:51:00.001-05:002013-11-15T12:51:29.479-05:00Not starting over.I'm not a writer.<br />
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I've realized this after taking many months off of blogging. </div>
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It's not that I don't have much to say (gosh, anyone who's ever met me can attest to that!) it's that I am not comfortable turning my words into paragraphs. I can talk your ear off, but then I come to this space and just stare at the blinking cursor, unsure when to even begin.</div>
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I'm not much of a photographer anymore these days either.</div>
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Toting out the camera is often the last thing on my mind. But I want to change that. I want to start capturing the everyday ins and outs of my family once again. But the part where I share words? I don't know if I'm up for that. We'll see eventually.</div>
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I'd hesitate to call this starting over. How about we just pick up where we left off?</div>
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748189532413119943noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611674482484215313.post-42350323273386772272013-06-13T22:00:00.000-04:002013-06-13T22:00:33.778-04:00Hi.<div style="text-align: left;">
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Like, even though my kids are literally sucking the life out of me most days, I get on my knees and praise God every night that this is my life. Cause it's good. And full and noisy and chaotic and everything that I could ever want.</div>
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2. Remy has declared war on naps this week. Again, another casualty of the stupid time change. By 4 o'clock in the afternoon, he is a monster. A sleep deprived, overdone monster who terrorizes people twice his size. </div>
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6. Something happy..something happy..oh! Owen and Olivia both had artwork selected to be displayed at the local middle school's art show. Super proud mom status.</div>
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My sweet, sweet Rosie..or as Remy like to call her..Row-eeee. Time's a flying with her. </div>
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I've been thinking way too much about blogging lately and not doing enough actual blogging. I read a lot of blogs (understatement.) And after I'm done reading all these wonderfully written, well thought out blog posts by all these folks who are 1000x more organized, well dressed, more...just insert any adjective really..I can't help but just sulk in the corner and be all, "I'm not a cool kid." Then 1998 calls and demands their piss poor adolescent attitude back. </div>
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<i>(Taken on this day exactly one year ago.)</i></div>
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Linking up with <a href="http://conversiondiary.com/">Jen</a> as always!</div>
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1. Were ya shocked by my announcement? Who am I kidding? We all saw that plot twist from three miles away. Though I can't help but giggle at myself from 3 months ago, the girl who swore that, if we were to have any more children, they certainly wouldn't be as close in age as Remy and Rosie. God has a sense of humor, obviously, because Rosie and this new little bundle of sweetness will be about 14 months apart. </div>
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748189532413119943noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611674482484215313.post-28547791981393247022013-01-29T07:36:00.002-05:002013-01-29T07:37:33.262-05:00Rosie in the AM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748189532413119943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611674482484215313.post-37632963019641783572013-01-28T20:28:00.000-05:002013-01-28T20:28:19.357-05:00When you find out that people are actually reading.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15748189532413119943noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1611674482484215313.post-11466026389183397822013-01-25T12:48:00.002-05:002013-01-25T12:48:58.424-05:00I chose life.<div style="text-align: center;">
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I decided right then, in my car, in the parking lot of my OB's office, that it wasn't up to me to play God. The tiny speck growing inside of me had a full set of unique <i>human</i> DNA. And that child deserved every chance and opportunity that my own mother had given me.</div>
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6. This week I'm thankful for: cheap beer, husbands that know how to use crockpots, end of winter clearance sales, space heaters, 3 pound bags of gummi bears, the ability to bribe decent behavior out of Remy at mass with peanut butter crackers.</div>
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To think, if we would have listened to what "conventional wisdom" and the media and our peers said, we would have stopped at two. I'm grateful that His plan is far superior to anything I could ever dream up.</div>
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So, I haven't done one of these in a while. These are all taken in the last two weeks and as always my <a href="http://instagram.com/looksnaplove">Instagram username</a> is <i><b>looksnaplove. </b></i></div>
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I made the grave mistake of deviating from my two loads of laundry every single day without fail routine and ended up with a pile of laundry larger than my two year old. Just because the idea of not doing laundry sounds wicked awesome, doesn't make it wicked awesome when you're going on hour two of folding and sorting. Just so you know.</div>
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I'm linking up with <a href="http://conversiondiary.com/">Jen</a> this week!</div>
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2. Post holiday, mid winter blues has hit me full force this past week. I'm over the cold. I'm over the gray skies. I'm over the extra five pounds that have settled around my midsection from the endless amounts of candy I've consumed in the past couple weeks. Thankfully, mercifully..in just a little over a month we'll be traveling back to our stomping grounds to celebrate Mardi Gras with our families. Amen. Alleluia. Gimme 'dem crawfish.</div>
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4. Then my uterus burst into pieces from baby fever. No joke.</div>
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5. This <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2006/03/35062/">article</a> is a couple years old (more like 6 years old), but I like it and I find myself re-reading it whenever I'm having an OMGImustbeCRAZY moment.</div>
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A friend send this postcard to my family for Christmas. It may be the most beautiful thing anyone has said about our family. Sometimes, when you're in the trenches of babies and diapers and school-aged children, it doesn't feel beautiful. It can feel monotonous and wrought with poop. So to have someone acknowledge the love you feel for these people, despite the poop, it's pretty dang great. I'll always treasure this little piece of cardboard.</div>
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7. Speaking of poop, Rosie just made diaper blowout #8 of this week. I should go deal with that.</div>
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We'll be patching the gaping hole in the drywall left by one of those pressure mounted baby gates. Which will most likely lead to painting. Followed by a whole lot of expletives.</div>
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