We traded our usual last day of school snack for a celebratory breakfast this year!! Since we have a fifth grader in the house, I let him invite a few friends to join us. Whit also invited a friend as well. So, on the last day of school at 6:30AM, I had six hungry boys… Read More
After John finished his Walk of Honor at school, I rushed home to get ready for our own Walk of Fame and bus stop celebration! We’ve got a whole gaggle of kids, and moms and dads alike came armed with water guns, water balloons, silly string, bubbles, popsicles and candy. A full on battle ensued and… Read More
I combined our usual last day of school snack with our “we’re going to Disney” celebratory dinner this year! Since our Disney trip would have us there over Memorial Day, I thought it would be fun and different to do a Mickey Mouse Memorial Day Celebration!! I served breakfast for dinner in the form of… Read More
Well, it’s a wrap on second grade for the little one! He celebrated in a few fun ways the last couple of weeks of school… Writer’s Cafe We transformed the classroom into a beatnik style cafe and each of the students took the stage to read a piece of their own writing. Everyone wore black… Read More
I feel like we celebrated the end of 5th grade and elementary school for weeks, but every single bit of it was fun and sentimental and memorable! Field Day I was scheduled to work on John’s last field day but, given my news yesterday, I ended up taking the day to work at home so… Read More
What I’m about to share with y’all is the scariest thing I’ve written in the seven years and 2,370 posts I’ve completed since I started Dixie Delights. Today is my 19th anniversary as an employee of The Coca-Cola Company, and today is my last day. Deep breath. I have known this day was coming since… Read More
We have spent at least a little time every nice day since Easter working in the yard. We’ve been trimming and planting and fertilizing and transplanting and spreading pinestraw for hours. You know the drill. Back when we had the terrible snowmageddon (remember when Honey slept in the car on the highway?!) we lost a… Read More