Family

Airlie Gardens
Family, Travel

AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

If you have followed my blog for any amount of time, you know that I LOVE looking at houses. I’m always on Zillow.com looking for a new home for our family that keeps getting smaller and smaller. We’re empty nesters with our last child in college visiting at breaks and weekends. So we finally made […]

Family

THE BEST MOTHER’S DAY GIFT

As Mother’s Day approaches, I can’t help but remember all the times the LOML and my kids have asked me, “What do you want for Mother’s Day?” I’ve held the title of Mother, Mom, Ma, Dude, Bruh, nag, (just to name a few) for 33 years. I’ve received the sweetest self-made cards with illegible writing […]

Family

SETTING FOR TWO ~ empty nesters

The LOML (Love Of My Life) and I have been married for 35 years,           birthed 4 children,          adopted 2 children,        lived in 2 states,           owned 3 houses,                  rented 2 apartments, […]

carolina beach
Family, Travel

A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AT THE BEACH ~ Thirty five wonderful years!

Thirty five years ago, I married the most wonderful man! This week we’re celebrating and reminiscing about all the wonderful and not so wonderful times we’ve shared together. Marriage is hard work!! If anyone tells you different, you’re being fibbed to!! There’s a lot of compromise, apologizing when you’re wrong and sometimes when you’re right, […]

Alyssa's Bridal Shower
Family, Travel

SPRING BREAK IN FLORIDA

I consider myself a North Carolina girl (we’ve lived here for 28 years) but I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida, a little town south of West Palm Beach and north of Miami Beach. It was a small quiet town when my dad first moved his family there in 1970. Today it is a popular […]

tj and brianna
DIY Projects, Fall, Family, Home Decor

A BEAUTIFUL FALL WEDDING DAY!

You know how there are certain occasions that are almost always the happiest days of a person’s life? Vacations, births, buying a home, first kiss, falling in love, surprise birthday parties, and the list could go on and on. Our family experienced such an occasion ~ the most beautiful (and perfect) Fall wedding. The happy […]