Office Supply Addicts Anonymous Winners Are…

Even though it’s hard to believe these numbers are random, and I feel so sorry for Sarah of comment #17 – These are our winners! Here are the associated comments with the winners so you can know for sure if it’s you that won: Hopefully I’ll get to email all of you today, but if I don’t – just email me (misszoot@gmail.com) with the address you want you Sharpie Pencils mailed to and I’ll get the mail on Monday! And also? Thank you... Read More

Serious Business, You Know

First and foremost: This is SOOOO not any sort of sponsored post. This is just me, being a huge dork who loves pens and pencils and knows many of you are the same. Please do not think less of me because I’m writing an entire entry about a new pencil. We finally did it! Went out and hunted down some of the rumored Sharpie Liquid Pencils that were just released. E and I were pumped as he inherited his Mother’s obsession with writing utensils. They had a demo station... Read More

If These Walls Could Speak

When we were first looking at this house we wondered the same thing all potential homebuyers wonder…Why did they move? It turns out, that was an easy question to get answered: After 10 years the previous family had grown out of the house. This house? Who can grown OUT of THIS house? It’s almost three times the size of the house I grew up in! Turns out…they had eight kids. EIGHT. And oddly? Something about that made me love the house more. I think of all of the... Read More

Wes’s Truly Awesome, Fantastic, Brilliantly Superb Day

Tuesdays are trash day at the Zoot house. And just like Mondays (Curbside recycling pickup day.) I spend the morning with my ears tuned in for the sound of the BIG TRUCK coming up the street. We often miss the recycling truck as he comes around naptime, but the garbage truck usually comes right before we leave to take E to school so we often hear him and sit on the stoop waiting for him to come take our garbage. Yesterday we caught him, and like usual, Wes waved frantically at... Read More

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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