Dealing With Disappointment Over Stores Not Being Stocked With Diet Coke.

Posted by on May 24, 2010 · 16 Comments 

House buying is not as easy as running to the store for Diet Coke, in case you were wondering. With this quest for a new house, we knew our budget. Our budget would get us nice (not brand-new) houses with four bedrooms. And that’s about it. What we’ve been hoping for all along is to find an older house with extra space that we could spend the next 20 years making beautiful since we’re hoping this will be our Forever Home. A house that would be big enough if... Read More

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The End Of Lost

Posted by on May 23, 2010 · 3 Comments 

In the words of Marilyn who shared this video on her blog: “Word up, yo.”  Read More

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I Really Hope I Don’t Jinx This

Posted by on May 21, 2010 · 10 Comments 

So…as of yesterday…I’m 99% sure I’m done with everything associated with the Probate Courts in Knoxville to finally close Dad’s docket. I mailed off the last bit of everything yesterday to my lawyer and as far as I can tell, the rest is in in his hands to get it where it needs to be to finalize everything. DO YOU HEAR THE ANGELS SINGING? This has been such an annoying and frustrating process. And Dad’s situation? Was actually kinda easy. He... Read More

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Sometimes the days ARE hard.

Posted by on May 20, 2010 · 12 Comments 

In the interest of protecting the privacy of certain parties involved, I’ll keep this simple and detail-free: Yesterday? All of my kids were possessed by something even more evil than Lucifer himself. I’m not sure what that is because I’m not familiar with all of the evil deities of the world, but I just know that not even Satan is as evil as my kids were yesterday. There are a lot of stories I can share but I’ll just give you two quick little bits to... Read More

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I Am A Photographer

Posted by on May 19, 2010 · 18 Comments 

One of my favorite places in my current home was this wall: Since “they” (who are “they” anyway?) say to sell your home it’s best to remove personal photos, that wall now looks like this: And you know what? I still really love it. Because that is MY photo. Most of our walls were covered with photos I’ve taken of our family. For some reason, because my family is gorgeous, I was never insecure about those photos being on my walls. I call... Read More

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Hi. I’m Kim.

This is my blog that I've been writing on since January, 2004. I call myself Zoot as it's a derivative of an old childhood nickname. I used to write about my struggles to have children, but eventually I succeeded and now, I write a lot about those kids. I don't use my kid's exact names simply because if someone Googles their very unique names in the future, I don't want them stumbling upon my entries about boobsweat. I mean, would you hire someone whose Mom writes openly about such topics? NO. YOU WOULD NOT.

I love taking pictures and carry my camera (almost) everywhere I go. This means you'll see a lot of photos on this site. I also periodically post recipes I like as I've been slowly (but surely) learning to cook and I like to share my discoveries. Finally? I'm an annoying pop culture fanatic so I'll periodically ramble about Hunger Games or the latest Parks and Recreation.

I hope you like it here. If not? Please don't tell me. I cry easily.
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