After countless recommendations from numerous friends, I finally read Francine River’s Redeeming Love. On the road to Rosemary Beach earlier this summer, I kept my nose buried in that book for five and a half hours straight (well… except when we drove through the Southern charmer known as Eufala, Alabama). The novel is a masterful recount of the… Read More
After searching high and low for a “chore chart” (or what I like to call “expectations” chart) that would suit our needs today, grow with us in the years to come AND not totally tack-ify my mudroom, I landed in that dreaded place of “if I want it done right, I’ll have to do it… Read More
We had a crazy busy weekend, starting at our regular Friday night pool happy hour, then spending Saturday and Sunday afternoons back at the pool, kicking off the fall baseball season today AND, finally and most importantly, celebrating bestie SW’s thirty-fifth birthday over a gourmet slider bar and enviable wine tasting bar. With our sommelier… Read More
Well gals, guess who lost another tooth?!?! (And guess who will be paying for braces in a few years??) Despite my best intentions to be prepared for tooth loss number two with plenty of fairy dust and a coffer of unique coins, once again I was left scraping together something memorable at eleven o’clock that… Read More
With the big basement re-do behind us, I have been enthusiastically pulling out some of the lovelies I’ve collected over the last eight months to find them a more suitable home than the bowels of my closet. The first things out and up were my Suzanne Kasler (Suzanne was our girl name and it still… Read More
Until last week, I had ridiculously little time one on one with my sweet, fat, happy baby Whit (aka Cookie.) He’s three years younger than John (aka Precious Cutie Pie, aka PCP) and spent the first two and three-quarter years of his precious life being carted around to the PCP’s events, activities, parties and play… Read More
I’m stealing a page from my blog-ff calliespondence’s book and writing about two must-shop sales today. Lilly Endless Summer Sale Hop on over to the mothership at Lilly Pulitzer for too good to be true prices on all the shifts, skirts and McKim’s your heart desires. Here are a few things I couldn’t let get away: (The… Read More