You’ll never guess what my son say I’m the best at! | #kids #humor

The other night, we were sitting around the table, and the boys were going through the nicknames we've given everyone in the family. Although on the blog, she's "The Teen" Andy has always given her the name Weirdo, so the boys proceeded to go through everyone: The Weirdo The Gamer The Entertainer The Screamer or The Minion The MoneyMaker The Recorder (because I take pics and write about everything) So then, the The Entertainer decided to keep going with it. Kylie's the best singer. Braxton's the best at playing games. Dad's the best tooter. Mom's the He had to stop…
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Dreaming of a Keurig – I want to #BrewtheLove, too! | #coffee

Confession time.  Jealousy has hit the Johnston household pretty hard lately.  Well, it's hit me, anyway. I know we're not supposed to be jealous of other people's belongings - but I am!  In the past week, I have seen the name Keurig pop up in my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, Email, RSS, StumbleUpon, and Pinterest feeds approximately 4,587 times.  The good news they're really hot and popular right now and they make a lot of people happy, happy, happy.  The bad news I don't have one, and that leaves me envious and Dreaming of a Keurig. I can't function without coffee. …
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I am Queen Amidoula! | #doula #starwars #birthgeek #birth

Yesterday, after having a conversation with one of my beautiful friends from high school who is about to have her second baby, I posted this on Facebook: I love that my friends from high school (and even Jr. High) come to me now with pregnancy, birth, and baby questions! Makes me feel accomplished. A few minutes later, a blogger friend, Sheila from That's because you are queen Amidoula! She knows me well!  But, now, I have this image in my head of me as Queen Amidala holding a new baby!  So, here goes! This is what you get when Star…
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It’s his camo paint! (aka a Sharpie) | Wordless Wednesday #ww

I was looking through Myspace for some of my old photos when I ran across this one.  It was taken almost seven years ago!  This is Braxton.  One of the comments on this photo on MS is from my aunt, and it says "It's his camo paint, geeeez! lol"  Funny thing is, this totally looks like Jett, except he would never have a pacifier in his mouth, and he hasn't yet gotten into the markers like this.  Luckily, it wasn't on anything else.  Just him.
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