For the 4th of July this year my family planned our yearly family reunion…at Hickory Knob State Resort Park. The plan was to go Friday….and be there around early/mid-afternoon. Andrew and I gotten up early and ran errands, packed the car {to the hilt} and were on the road by noon. The plan had been…
One of the projects I tackled this past weekend was making some bows for sweet Eliza Jane. As you recall from Friday’s post I went into planning (panic!) mode with my to-do list so I was energized to get some things done. First thing’s first – the girl’s gotta have bows! I can’t handle someone…
This is it! The last 10 weeks (Lord willing) of pregnancy! I can’t believe how quickly it’s gone by! Time flies when you’re having fun….or running around chasing a toddler! 🙂 I checked my app, The Bump, this morning just to confirm I’d not lost track and sure enough, it read “30 weeks – day…
That sounds like an oxymoron, right? I don’t know that I’ve ever found JOY in doing the laundry. But, a friend has and I tried to change my perspective tonight. It all started when my friend {we’ll call her Lu} asked me to go to lunch today. I didn’t really have plans…I was going to…
When Reynolds was a “wee” baby I read to him every day. Looking back, I wonder if it was because he was just a blob, laying there on the bed and it was nice to hear someone’s voice in the midst of the quiet. And being that we lived 45 minutes outside of Columbia then,…
I’m constantly looking for easy, homemade (or mostly homemade), healthy recipes to share with my family. The key is easy (or fast!) without a million ingredients. Several months ago I found a quick and easy pizza recipe, which has been modified a few times over for simplicity. We modified it a bit more yesterday for…
This kid. I’m tell you, he knows when something is about to go down. Yesterday, Andrew and I were both at work. I was in a five hour long management meeting (sounds awful, right?!) and there is this rule about not being able to look at your cell phone. I was communicating with my Supervisor to…
