Julie Lyles Carr

3 of 8 is the oldest of the boy population at the house.  He is bookended by two older sisters and one younger until he finally gets to a brother in the number 5 slot.  He has many a time bemoaned being surrounded by sisters, surrounded by Barbies, surrounded by lip gloss and nail polish and hair clips and such. …
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. –Hal Borland Y’all, it is hot…as in back-side-of-Mercury, volcanic, streets-a-meltin’ hot.  Even my veteran mommy heart just doesn’t have the chops to make the kids sweat-it-out in the great out of doors.  It’s even too hot to swim in the afternoons–we have to wait until the sun…
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“Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don’t miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out.”  Col. 4:6 The Message Bible It was one of those rare occasions this past…
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  One from the vault here—6 of 8 back in her glory days as ‘Baby O’ the Family’ while we were living on an island and she was being raised as a Beach Babe….  Sat, 02 Aug 2008 10:15:00 +0000julielylescarr

My Baby Daddy…I love him… Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:45:00 +0000julielylescarr