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- 10 Rules of the Summer Family Road Trip
- A week after DOMA dies, Dallas family takes road trip to monumental D.C. wedding
- Even the worst days on a summer family road trip can be the best
- Life lessons from a cigarette-loving, screwdriver-drinking grandma
- Recipe for reinvention: A high-end restaurant run by at-risk teens
- The end of mom taxi duties brings unexpected wave of nostalgia
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- Thank you to my state rep @MorganMeyerTX for being the only Republican in Austin to vote against this: In hist… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 day ago
- True to form. twitter.com/mkraju/status/… 4 days ago
- Thanks to @GrownandFlown for letting me share some of our pandemic shenanigans: grownandflown.com/bonus-days-liv… 1 week ago
- This @BaylorMBB fan is enjoying this one-sided championship game. The more boring the better when it’s your team. Sorry America! #sicembears 1 week ago
- RT @Blue_Texas2022: If you want Beto O’Rourke to replace Greg Abbott as Texas Governor next year, please retweet this because I would like… 2 weeks ago
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Ready for a @clydeathompson cocktail and the weekend. Dinner tonight with said hubby, my MIL, and the 21YO. On the agenda for the next two days: dinner with friends INSIDE (!!!!!!), farmers markets, and our spring garden is going down. Also no alarm will be set on these days. Mama’s tired. And thirsty. 🍸I actually just deleted Brooklyn from my weather app yesterday. My older son moved back to Dallas in December 2019 after graduating from college there. It was such a habit to check the weather there, it felt weird to take it off. But I really didn't need weather alerts because they only reminded me I haven't been outside of the state of Texas in almost 14 months. Who needs that kind of negativity? I spy my MIL looking at her grandkids like this fairly often. She adores them. Here she is the day she moved into a new apartment very close to us, leaving her home of almost 50 years after fighting breast cancer for a year during a pandemic. She is a badass. Yes, my 21YO at 2 am. But I have earplugs. And one day my kitchen will be empty in the wee hours and, when I get up in the morning, I won’t see the evidence of his “second dinner” and the pantry light won’t be on. And I’ll miss him. @grownandflownDallas friends, my friends at @stoutcreekfarm are bringing farm fresh chicken and duck eggs (OMG the duck eggs will change your life), ground beef, and a few rounds of sourdough bread to my porch Sunday afternoon. And because it is the one-year anniversary of our little East Dallas farm co-op, they're donating part of Sunday's proceeds to my beloved @congo_restoration. They'll donate $2 from each dozen eggs and match that amount — so that's $4 per dozen donated to Congo Restoration. What will that do in Congo? Six dozen will buy a sewing kit for our of our sewing school graduates and four dozen will buy a uniform for one of our primary school girls. So if you're interested in trying out this wonderful sustainable farm close to home, this is the time! Finalizing orders tonight so let me know in the comments below. Thank you!A much-shortened version of my yearlong COVID journal published on @grownandflown today (link to article in bio). Thanks to @sawyer.thompson, @thompson_noah & @natashaburklow for all the great stories and memories. ❤️❤️❤️
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