In this day and age of iPhones, wii games and way too many cartoons, I signed John up for camp at the Chattahoochee Nature Center hoping to reinforce that the outdoors is a marvelous playground – a place for aimless roaming, lazy daydreaming and unrivaled adventure. In that vein, the PCP spent the last glorious… Read More
A few years back and on the reco of bestie S, I spent a long summer day lost in the pages of Water for Elephants. Set in Depression-era America, the novel tells the tale of a young, forlorn vet that joins a travelling circus and impossibly falls in love with the boss’s wife turned star… Read More
You know when you think (but aren’t absolutely certain) that you want something (fabric in the case of today) and you jet off to the store (Forsyth Fabrics – more on that mecca tomorrow, perhaps) to decide for sure and then you end up not being able to get it (because they sold out the DAY… Read More
*shhhh* …the littles don’t yet know… …but I’m so elated I feel like screaming from the rooftops… “We’re going to Disney! We’re going to Disney!” Our trip is months away but our resort is booked, our meals are planned, I’ve drained Disney gurus bestie N and sweetie M of their tips and tricks, I’ve hunted… Read More
Allright y’all, brace yourselves as I divulge my true literary prowess… … let me introduce you to Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. I say “introduce” because unless you have a preteen daughter, often peruse the latest Scholastic book offerings or have a fabulous bestie E with unrivaled taste in juicy, teenage drama, I am quite certain… Read More
Along with besties C, E and N, last weekend I took a walking tour of Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta’s Grant Park. Founded in 1850 and the first public burial ground in the city, the sprawling forty acre cemetery is a historic Atlanta landmark and the magnificent final resting place of more than seventy thousand souls.… Read More
After our inspiring photography class with Click Workshops, Sister and I loaded up the littles and took them on a little shooting expedition to practice our new skills. I’m not at all presenting these as professionally perfect photographs – and that was never the intent! I simply wanted to be able to better use my… Read More