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A Real Alabama Summer in Pictures

2014-07-15 aprilmomoffour brothers, family, funny stories, grandparents, kid quotes, little boys, summer, vacation

It has been a pleasure to see my little boys having a true “Alabama summer” this year. They’ve always spent a couple of weeks per summer here, but this year, when it’s all said and done, they will have spent one week shy of two full months!! The funny thing is that our version of an Alabama summer looks a whole lot different than what a “Yankee” may envision. Now I mean no ill-will towards our friends from other regions. […]

East Coast to West Coast in Only 6 Weeks!

2014-05-05 aprilmomoffour 4 kids, kid quotes, male leaders, moving, washington dc

planning, planning, planning! So much has happened this past week. Once our military orders arrived, all systems are GO, GO, GO! You know all those stereotypes about men? You know what I’m talking about: “When men are sick they lay down, but women keep working,” and other such derogatory thoughts our society has attached to our males? Well, let me tell you, Alan blows all those negative sexist remarks out of the water. That’s right. I said sexist. Everyone’s so […]