Observations on love, marriage, and motherhood
We have a neighbor named - well, we'll call her LaRhonda. She's lived in our neighborhood for what sounds like 30 years, and our yards connect. The first time Bryan met her, he thought she was some sort of door-to-door evangelist who was having a health crisis. "Hello?" Bryan asked when he answered the door…
When you're feeling like a sassy trendsetter wearing hot pink eye shadow to the grocery store, and then an old man asks you in the middle of a busy checkout lane if you've been "punched in the eyes."
Originally posted Sept. 5, 2013 Have you been following Bryan and Mike's blog, A Few Thousand? Each day of their adventure has been so inspirational. Seeing the things they've overcome so early in this journey makes me realize that I can do anything I put my mind to, too. So today I decided to do…
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Well, Christmas has come and gone, and sadly, so has Rhiannon, the witchy woman who lived upstairs. If you need a refresher on the witchy woman, please read here, then here. Last week, I got an email from our landlord that said something like this: Hey Jillian, just wondering: do we pay your utilities, or…
Nathan is back! I repeat: NATHAN IS BACK! Bryan went outside on Monday night to take the trash bin to the curb and Nathan's car was sitting in the driveway like nothing ever happened. Like he didn't just mysteriously vanish four months ago. Where did he come from? It's like he just reappeared. Which, I suppose, is quite…
Bryan and I have lived in our East Nashville house for a little over four months. It's a duplex; we live downstairs, and there's an apartment upstairs. When we moved in, we met the man who lived upstairs, "Nathan," who was friendly enough, albeit quiet. But after we lived in our house for about a month, Nathan disappeared.…
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You're telling me that this birthday card made it all the way from conception, through production and onto Target's shelves without anyone realizing the humor potential here? SheRUFF, card company! SheRUFF!
I'd heard about the broken microwave in our office kitchen since my very first day at the agency. "We used to have two microwaves, but that one broke, so now we only have one." "Remember when we didn't have to stand in line to use the microwave at lunch?" "Life was so much better when we had…
In honor of my parents coming to Nashville this weekend, here's a list of quotes I jotted in my phone from my last visit home. I'm not exaggerating here - these are direct quotes from my parents as I heard them. I don't think they knew I was typing. ## Mom, Googling: "How come there's…
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[Sunday morning, over an IHOP breakfast in Kokomo, Indiana] Bryan's dad, Delano: "Welp, I got my leg stuck in a muskrat hole." Jillian [choking on pancakes]: "What?!" Delano: "I was walkin' around the property the other day, cleanin' some things out of the yard, and I stopped to use the facilities–" Bryan's stepmom, Cheryl: "–in the…
Jillian Wyatt 