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Steevenson has his first loose tooth, y’all! It’s one of the bottom/center ones. I shared the news on Instagram and everybody quickly chimed in and said I needed to “take a bunch of pictures of him” while it’s still in there. And because it seemed like a good idea, I grabbed my camera and asked […]
I’m celebrating my 44th birthday with Kevin and Steevenson at Great Wolf Lodge today. What a trip! Who knew, when I created this blog ten years ago, that I’d be splashin’ around with the most incredible husband and the absolute greatest kid on Earth a decade later. So wild!! If you’ve never heard of Great […]
Happy Monday, y’all! I get a lot of requests to share my everyday makeup routine, so I finally took the time to record it and share it in my Insta-stories. I had a bunch of requests to share the info over here too, so here it is if one of them was from you! 🙂 […]
Happy Monday, y’all! Kevin and I are racing to finish our Photoshop and Facebook Marketing classes this week in preparation for the sessions we’ll be teaching at the Haven Conference starting this Friday. My session will focus on helping folks learn how to manipulate photos to virtually try out different pieces of furniture, colors, landscaping […]
Hello, friends! How was your weekend? Big hugs to all the mamas out there! My fondest first Mother’s Day memory (other than just getting to spend it with my Sonny, of course) was definitely plastic brunch. He and I were home alone ’til lunchtime, and I didn’t say a word about the holiday when we […]
Happy Friday, friends! 🙂 Well, I got my second set of at-home try-on glasses from Warby Parker, but before I show them to you, here’s another look at the glasses I own and wear every day: (Glasses: Vogue #2787 53/16/140) I am not getting rid of them (I love, love, LOVE them!), but I would like […]
Happy Friday, friends! Many of you have asked about my eyeglasses, so I thought I’d share the brand and model number here today. I have really enjoyed them over the past couple of years! Vogue I have been craving a second pair lately though. I’ve been taking a lot of photos for my LuLaRoe business, […]
I published this post 4 years ago, this week. (My how time flies!) Thought it would be fun to flash back to it today. 🙂 1. I know you’re more worried about what’s going on at school right now than spending time with your family, but one day, you’ll enjoy being with your Mom so […]
“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.” ―Rick Warren *** Wow, y’all. Your comments on Monday’s post (What Love Looks Like) were so powerful to read! Thank you so much for taking the time to contribute to that conversation. 🙂 There […]
Tomorrow’s the big day, y’all. My 40th birthday…aaaaahhhhh! 😀 I’ll be robbing the cradle for a minute until Kevin turns 40 on June 28th. 😉 I was telling him last night, I don’t think I’ve ever thought too much about what life might look like at 40. But here I am…living in the South (my favorite region), with […]
“After all, I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.” -L.M. Montgomery No new design or adoption news, so I thought I’d share some simple […]
“We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” -Sir Winston Churchill ***** The construction is done in our little one’s room, so I’ll start caulking and painting today. I walked in there yesterday afternoon…just to sweep and dream for a bit. I think I swept more dreams than dust. 😉 It’s in those […]
“Don’t quit your day dream.” -Unknown I rediscovered some newspaper articles from my childhood this week and memories of my Mom digging up an extra “day job” rushed right across time and back into my head. ***** We moved out to the country on April Fools Day in 1983. My parents were in their late 20’s, and […]
“Sometimes, you have to stop thinking so much and just go where your heart takes you.” – A.C. Benson A cold snap knocked our power out in the middle of the night this week. The temperature in our bedroom dipped down into the 50’s by the time our paper shades started to glow the next […]
“Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.” – Margaret Peters Several years ago, my Mom and I rented a pedal boat from a vendor on Catalina Island. She, Kevin and I were there for an art festival I had been accepted into, but I sold all my paintings within the first […]
