Julie Lyles Carr

These are the home videos that defy a simple printed label to identify their recorded contents. Because I live with children who defy simple labels. This one started innocently enough. 5 of 8 likes the idea of making our own ‘show’. So I told him that we could take the video camera with us to Costco while we shopped for…
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I love my digital scrapbooking. I really do. But there is still something so magical about sitting down with a heavy photo album laid across your lap, slowly flipping the thick pages of pictures and memories. I used to avidly paper scrapbook, back in the day when I was Triomom and Quatromom. I had a spot where all my supplies…
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You remember the Amazing Thea, right? My Artiste Extroidinaire, the Jewelry Designer to the Stars (and the wanna-be’s). Well, when I went to Oklahoma a couple of weeks ago, I got to spend a little time with the Amazing T herself. You see, we don’t just share a dear friend (one of her best friends is also one of my…
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My first born is hilarious….HIL-A-RI-OUS. Everyday. Often. She generally treats us to a stand-up comedy routine once a day. She commands the stage in front of her daddy and me and starts the gig, throwing jokes and observations our way that generally leave us rolling. She sometimes throws in a few dance steps for good measure. But she also leaves…
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See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands Isaiah 49:16 When I fell in love with Michael while in college, I would often find myself during long, boring lectures doodling his initials into the margins of my spiral notebooks. Alongside my notes on abnormal psychology and Victorian poets are curling letters wound around each other, a cursive…
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