Jessie Weaver
I am a work-at-home mom with four kids (ages 15, 13, 11, and 7). We live on campus at Baylor School, where my husband teaches. After living in Ohio, Indiana, and Virginia, Tennessee is home and has been for 19+ years. After years of having babies and preschoolers at home, I sent my youngest to school, and now spend my time working part-time for an online entrepreneur ... and picking up sick kids from school.
10 Memoirs For When You Want To Live Vicariously Through Someone Else
If you have school-aged kids, you know it's no joke that Maycember is a real thing.
I have four kids in school, so there are approximately 18 million things on our calendar this May. Thanks...
Crying Over Spotify Playlists
For some reason, the end of kindergarten always hits me much harder than the beginning. I'm on my fourth child now, so I think I can say this is a strong pattern. Kindergarten is...
Surprises Of Having A Big Family
I didn’t grow up in a large family. My nuclear family was the "perfect" American family of four: mom, dad, me, my 2 ½-years younger sister, and a dog. The number of people vacation...
You Won’t Remember How They Talked As Toddlers
It's one of our favorite topics of conversation: the cute things our kids say/used to say. It came up yesterday as I was with a group of people whose kids range from three to...
I Love And Hate The Second Half Of October
When my oldest child was born two days before my husband's 27th birthday, I think he was delighted: never again would he have to consider celebrating his birthday. A quiet, Enneagram 5 through and...
My Favorite Foods To Make In The Fall
If you know me, you probably know these two things: I love to read and I love to bake. (And maybe that I also like to pack Bento-style lunchboxes for my kids.)
I love to...
From MMMBop To Fanfiction, My Past Life As A Crazy Hanson Fan
There was a time when I was 16, maybe 17, that some days I really did think I was going to marry Taylor Hanson.
Given that it’s what I thought about the majority of the...
An Ode To The Chattanooga Library
I've seen a few news articles recently about how members of the city council feel like the library is not doing all it can do in our city. Frankly, that news stopped me dead...
Going Gentle Into The Good Night
It was maybe 10 years ago, when I was just 30 and had but a few silver strands shining through, that I asked on Facebook what other women thought about gray hair:
Go gentle...
His Third Pandemic Birthday
My son Joshua turned seven on March 16, 2020.
I had already bought cake, decorations, and everything else for his March 14 party before everything started shutting down on the 12th and 13th. In the...