Happy Monday, y'all! Guess what? Fall is in the air in Alabama. Saturday was cool, cloudy and a little misty. I haven't been ready for Fall yet this year, but after the chilly weekend, I'm definitely getting in the mood. :) Yesterday was beautiful with very little humidity, so I took a quiet Sunday afternoon walk around the yard with my camera. Fall is definitely on it's way. :) Every step I took sounded crunchy. These leaves have been ...
Motherhood
How I DON’T Do It All
I hope y'all had a great holiday weekend! Ours was wonderfully busy and fun. :) We celebrated my husband's birthday on Friday and my parents 35th anniversary on Monday. You wouldn't believe the emails and messages that I receive asking how I do it all. I hate to break it to y'all...but... I don't. [pinit count="horizontal"] I am wife, mom, manager of two home businesses, daughter, sister, friend, manager, diy-er, decorator, teacher, ...
5 Reasons Why I Apologize To My Boys
Happy Friday! :) I hope y'all have had a great week. I've been looking forward to sharing this post with you. I'm so passionate about this topic that I want to tell the world...and my blog is the closest to "the world" that I have. *wink* I grew up in a wonderful home. My parents loved each other and they taught us how to love. We had a family policy of "not letting the sun go down on our wrath." So, if we had an issue with a sibling or ...
The Day My Definition of “Mama” Changed
Five years ago today, my definition of "mama" changed. You see, for the last year and a half up to that point, I knew the fierceness of love and the willing-to-give-everything kind of love that comes with being "mama." I knew what it felt like to know that life is inside. And I knew the heart-wrenching grief that shook my body as I said "goodbye" to the teeny-tiny, itsy-bitsy life {oh yes, LIFE} that lived inside me. I knew that part of ...
How I Turned My Cartoon Junkie Into A Bookworm
Happy Friday! I hope y'all have had a great week! There's been some crazy site issues going on over here, but hopefully everything is up and running better than ever now. :) I'm really excited to share with you the story of how Ridley changed from being into cartoons and begging to watch PBS shows on Netflix to begging to have books read to him. [pinit count="horizontal"] A year ago, I had a new baby and was in survival mode. I hadn't found ...
Finding My Motherhood Mojo
I'm not the only one who has struggled with motherhood mojo, right? It's the kind of phenomenon that stems from the exhaustion of having a new baby and getting into a new routine. Cameron is almost a year old and I'm finally finding my motherhood mojo again. The first few months after having Cameron, I was, quite normally, in survival mode. Survival mode isn't particularly pretty. It seemed like I couldn't stay on top of my housework {read ...