Current Status: Cancelled

Well, it’s official. I have cancelled every plan I had on my calendar for three months and everything else I was planning on doing is in a holding pattern.   Cancelling is one…

Four Steps to Make Nursery Design Easy and Fun

Let’s talk nurseries! I love, love, love to design a nursery. Whether you prefer bright and happy or soft and sweet, making room for baby is always so fun. The best rule…

A Mother’s Grief on a Lost Senior Year

I hate to use the term “not fair”. Let’s face it, you aren’t owed a “fair” break in life. Things aren’t always balanced, and this world definitely has a way of knocking…

COVID-19 and a Medical Family: How we Deal

If you’re in a medical family, maybe your days look a lot like ours. Maybe you or your husband get home at the end of the day, strip on your porch or…

Mothering from a Distance

My mom would say, “ I love to see the grandkids’ headlights, but I also love to see the taillights “. Now that my husband and I live close to all the…

Life Lessons I Learned my Senior Year

Tonight I’m heartbroken. This is not how I would have ever imagined my senior year ending. I knew there would be pain and tears but not in this way. As my time…

Five Inside Activities for Kids

How are you fairing during our attempt to “flatten the curve?” Are you loving the slow days or feeling a little overwhelmed? I have to admit, I have experienced a little of…

Three Unique Tablescapes for Spring

We recently teamed up with Vintage Vic and Antique Aly to create some pretty spectacular tablescapes for Spring. All of the items used where found at Antique Aly, an antique mall in…

Top Swimsuit Styles for Summer

Let me say how extremely humbling it is to go into a dressing room, a few pounds heavier than you would like to be along with ZERO tan and try on bathing…

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint in the Kitchen

Let’s face it. Saving the planet may not be on everyone’s minds these days, but you’ve likely heard about Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager whose efforts to fight climate change have started…