Julie Lyles Carr

So I’m snuggled up in my precious friend’s gorgeous guest bedroom. She and her husband have the courage, pity and insanity to allow moi and sept of my huit children (I’m feeling awfully cultured in this beautiful room…)to stay with them while 2 of 8 is competing in Nationals for dance. The competition just oh-so-conveniently happened to be scheduled in…
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Have you entered the Family Constitution giveaway yet? Well, get to it! The drawing is at midnight tonight! As you read this, I am most likely frantically finishing up packing to take 2 of 8 to her Nationals Dance Competition. From there, she will head to an amazing ballet intensive several states away. I’m being so brave. This packing thing…
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*WARNING!  THIS POST CONTAINS SCENES OF GRATUITOUS GRAPHIC VACUUM VIOLENCE!  SUCH SCENES MAY NOT BE ADVISABLE VIEWING FOR ALL READERS!  PROCEED WITH CAUTION!* I’m cruel to vacuums. It’s true. I don’t intend to cut their lives short. It just of happens. I’ve just purchased my sixth vacuum in as many years. Yeah. But, see, the one from five years ago…
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Sundance and Butch. Cagney and Lacey. When 1 of 8 goes on her nanny jobs, she really goes all out. She has the kids write stories, paint, make up songs, put on puppet shows. She’s a super nanny. She recently has put her snazzy new cell phone/web browser/camera/video camera to use and has started producing movies with some of her…
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My twins aren’t exactly…’twin-ie’. They look nothing alike. They are boy/girl fraternal. She outweighed him by two pounds, sporting a full head of dark hair and rolls of fat on her. He was slick bald, wiry and fair . They kept looking at each other when they were infants as if to say, “And you are…..?” No apparent special connection,…
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