Our beautiful new Anatolian Shepherd mix puppy, Cleopatra. Or, Miss Cleo for short! Last Saturday night, I just could not get to sleep. I...

Goodbye 2017. I will not miss you, not one tiny little bit. This is a new year, and I am coming out of my grief fog. I lost my father...

#Bodacious dressed herself that day, look at her shoes! And the look of joy on his sweet face! She still dresses this way, and they still...

Now, for those of you that know Bodacious, this could be a daily bit of theatrics, or there could be a crisis. Hard to tell which, and I...

by Melanie Nicholas 1996 Texas A&M Bonfire file photo, photo credit The Eagle newspaper. Each year around Thanksgiving, I take time to...

As a girl, and the last granddaughter, I didn’t have to do any of that. I went shopping with my Mamo at the M&M Shop in Brownwood, helped...

My next ride was much more practical for the post college professional woman I was becoming. Mad Max was a smart little two door white...

Cheesy beef goulash pic from lilluna.com. When I was in high school, my mother started letting me help her cook dinner. Her recipe box...

I haven’t sent Christmas cards the last three years. I have just hated pictures of myself. No amount of black clothing, red lipstick and...

For the most part, I work from home so that I can be with the kids. During the school year, that works perfectly. I drop them off, come...

by Melanie Nicholas Dearest Husband, The Hubs with Bodacious on her birth day. The kids, doglets and I have just returned from our trip...

I am not a photographer by any means, but I thought this turned out to be a really sweep photo of the kids sleeping together on our...

My advice to him is always the same – take your time. There is no hurry. Shoot, I don’t know what I want to be when I grow up yet, and...

Parker, 8 Easter blessings! This is one of my favorite holidays, and not just because of the outfits and the candy. Easter is one of my...

Melanie Nichols Melanie Nicholas by Melanie Nicholas I was working late a few nights ago when I received a strange Facebook message. The...

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My beautiful baby girl, just a few hours after her birth. One of the things that I love the most about my husband is that he lets me have...

by Melanie Nicholas Nailed it. Little Son earned his first stripe tonight at jiu-jitsu! It is hard to raise active kids when you’re not...

My Marley girl Christmas is supposed to be perfect, joyous, celebratory. But I haven’t been feeling it the last few weeks. My tree is...

When your mom crushes your dreams … . I was driving the kids home Tuesday night, concentrating on the road and half-listening to...