Wife, mother, blogger, writer, homeschooler, desmoid tumor patient, all around smartass, and Skittles enthusiast, not necessarily in that order.
Author: Christine Knapp
Here’s What the River Taught Me
The unpaved road began just minutes after my GPS died. My car and I were now crawling along a single skinny lane with rolling river on one side and thick, towering forest on the other. Thankfully, I was following someone who knew the rest of the …
Your Guide to My Child’s Changing Gender
Back some 25 years ago, a pregnant me went in for her very first ultrasound to find out the gender of the beautiful creature growing inside my ever expanding belly. I say beautiful because this is motherhood and that arrow to my heart was instant. I …
A Guide To Post Pandemic Me
Hello, friend! So glad you’re reading this. After more than a year of hunkering down during a global pandemic, I am shot the hell up with beautiful vaccine goodness and can safely reenter society. And now we can do stuff like be in the same room …
The Only Hotel Review I’ll Ever Write
I recently had my yearly oncology checkup. Unlike every single recipe blogger, I will not make you scroll through a thousand word post about how the dish you are looking to prepare was inspired by my girls’ weekend away at a Napa Valley Winery before I …
Gen X Road Trips Were Not Pinterest-Worthy
I recently saw a TikTok filled with Pinterest hacks for traveling with children and HOLY HELL were my Gen X eyeballs popping out of my head. Now first, I want to say that I’m not ragging on these moms. I come from a time where you …
You Get To Be Sad
I have to admit, yesterday was a bad day for me. The past month, quite frankly, has been its own special hell, but most of that isn’t my story to tell. Yesterday is mine to tell and I think I’m ready to tell it. Recently, a …
What You Getting The Covid Vaccine Means To Me
I got poked on Thursday. The best kind of poke you can get during a pandemic. I got the vaccine. According to the stack of papers they handed me before said poke, I received the Pfizer. In a weird sort of doomsday kismet, both my husband …
Relax Into It
I’ve been having trouble with the cold, my Floridian blood is too thin to bear this unrelenting freeze. A friend of mine who is all too aware of my plight, a fragrant and fetching Mississippi magnolia who was transplanted many years ago to an icy Nordic …
I Tried Aerie’s Real Sunnie Bra So You Don’t Have To
I haven’t had a haircut in well over a year thanks to Covid. I want one really bad. I need one even worse. It’s just one of those things I’ve discovered I won’t do during a pandemic. To me, the risk doesn’t seem worth the reward. …
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