{"id":209,"date":"2008-08-13T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/08\/hi-southern-girl.html"},"modified":"2008-08-13T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T02:38:00","slug":"hi-southern-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2008\/08\/hi-southern-girl.html","title":{"rendered":"Hi Southern Girl!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m excited that another one of my friends has made the jump to the dark side. Southern Girl<\/a> is one of the Original Playgroup* Mom friends from when I first moved to North Carolina in July 2005.<\/p>\n

She’s your classic North Carolina-born-and-bred lady, and her storytelling is all the proof you need that’s she’s a Southern Belle through and through.<\/p>\n

I’ll definitely miss her from way out here in Nebraska, and it’s made my day that she now has a blog.<\/p>\n

*History lesson<\/strong>: I call it the “Original Playgroup”. When I first moved into our NC neighborhood, the first thing I did when we were over the unpacking stresses was take our boys to the neighborhood pool. This was about a week after our furniture was delivered. Within an hour I meet Dawn and her two sons who were the same ages as my two sons. Within another hour the boys and I are invited to join Dawn and several other neighborhood Moms of 2-3 year olds in a once-per-week playgroup. Through this playgroup I also met Wendy<\/a>, Southern Girl<\/a>, Julie and Carrie. We’ve watched our kids grow up together since summer 2005 and I’m glad for e-mail and blogging to keep up from across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m excited that another one of my friends has made the jump to the dark side. Southern Girl is one of the Original Playgroup* Mom friends from when I first moved to North Carolina in July 2005. She’s your classic North Carolina-born-and-bred lady, and her storytelling is all the proof you need that’s she’s a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[],"tags":[15,14,32],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-3n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":717,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2012\/03\/spring-break-road-trip-2012-part-2-north-carolina.html","url_meta":{"origin":209,"position":0},"title":"Spring Break Road Trip 2012, Part 2: North Carolina","date":"22 March 12","format":false,"excerpt":"This picture was taken minutes before we headed to our truck and started our drive home.After hooking up the lawn mower to our truck in WV, we headed back down I-81 and U.S. 29 towards my sister's house in central North Carolina. \u00a0I blew through her place -- stopping overnight\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"family\"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/--R7f-huTBrM\/T2NJPRkDW7I\/AAAAAAABfsM\/4x83lhJGRqY\/s640\/IMG_1789.JPG?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":608,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/07\/road-trip-2011-traveling-solo-with-sons.html","url_meta":{"origin":209,"position":1},"title":"Road Trip 2011: Traveling Solo With Sons","date":"08 July 11","format":false,"excerpt":"Easter 2011.I've gotta admit it -- my boys travel VERY VERY VERY well. 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