She’s Keeping Me From Leaving The House Looking Like I’m Homeless

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Nikki is still very much a fashionista. She puts tons of thoughts into what she wears and she rarely leaves the house anymore without some sort of accessory to accentuate her outfit. Maybe a fedora, maybe a scarf, maybe a purse, often all three! We went out to go shopping the other morning as a family and I was just wearing a t-shirt, jeans and my converse. Then, of course, my... Read More

Yet ANOTHER My Teenager Is Amazing Story

Here’s a story I’ve told everyone on the internet BUT those of you here on my blog because it happened amidst a crazy level of chaos and I never got around to writing about it. The Saturday before I flew to Baltimore, E took Nikki to see Shrek The Musical with a couple of his friends. As the story goes, Nikki basically projectile vomited while sitting in her seat inside... Read More

Six going on Sixteen

Six years ago I gave birth this rotten child. What? Oh. It’s her birthday, I’m supposed to be sweet and loving, right? It’s funny, I read a lot about providing strong role models for young girls so that we have more Veronica Roths (What? I’m a YA Fiction nut, of course she’s my Go-To Young Awesome Female) and less Kim Kardashians in 15 years. While... Read More

Naptime

Since Nikki started Kindergarten, her sleep schedule has been completely messed up. She was used to getting her daily naps. I know most 5-year olds don’t take naps, but until she started Kindergarten, Nikki did. Somedays not much of one, but other days she would sleep 2+ hours. Now that she’s in Kindergarten, she’s only “resting” for about 30 minutes... Read More

Autumn Chase

Now…on to brag about my DAUGHTER! She ran the Autumn Chase yesterday. It’s just a 1-mile fun run, but it’s a huge event kids from all over the city attend. As legend has it, Donnie won a medal in 1st grade from doing the mile in 7 minutes plus some. Nikki had never run a mile straight before yesterday, but we were pretty confident she could do it. Wes went first,... 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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