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front porch
Home Decor, Summer

THE FRONT PORCH ~ My very first front porch!

*The post includes affiliate links* We are loving our new house!! We’ve been in our new house for about 4 months and we have been busy ~ ordering from Amazon, meeting our new neighbors, continually unpacking the endless number of boxes, and still living our lives ~ birthday celebrations, date nights, breakfast dates with friends, […]

Memorial Day
Family, Main Dishes, Recipes, Sides

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! ~ Our menu

Does anyone else struggle with getting your older kids to answer your texts. It’s a big struggle in this family!! I invited two of my boys to come for Memorial Day weekend (any day) about a week ago. * CRICKETS * Then Sunday about 4:00pm Son #4 is at my door. We have nothing planned. […]

Our New House
Home Decor

OUR NEW HOUSE ~ Making it our home

WELCOME TO OUR NEW HOUSE!! We’re getting settled as we unpack boxes, figure out where to put things, learn new appliances, meet new neighbors, and introducing our dogs to our new place. I wanted to show you each room before we moved in and then once we’re done moving in, I will post before and […]

new house 2001
Family

SAYING GOODBYE TO OUR CHILDREN’S CHILDHOOD HOME ~ A New Beginning

Oh boy!! Lots of tears this week!! Twenty three years of memories run through my head as I pack up each room to get ready to move to a new house that I’m excited about making our next home. As we emptied the attic and the crawl space, toys that we hadn’t seen in 15-20 […]

Atlanta
Family, Travel

SUPERHEROES ~ our aging parents

“Love your parents. We are so busy growing up, we often forget they are also growing old.” –Unknown     As a child, we constantly fight for independence from the people who we can’t live without. Those same people who gave us life, fed, clothed, housed, loved, taught, and disciplined us are controlling to us […]

San Diego
Family, Travel

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA Day 8 ~ Watching the whales!

This is my last post about our trip to San Diego, California. The LOML and I had such a great time watching our boys play in the 2023 Ultimate Frisbee National Championship. We had fun cheering our team on, watching them play amazingly well, talking with other frisbee parents and enjoying the beautiful weather. To […]