My dear friend and next door neighbor recently celebrated her 50th birthday. One difficult aspect of the pandemic has been seeing these milestone celebrations come and go without much fanfare. My other neighbor and I joined forces to plan an evening to celebrate with just the three of us on my back porch! We set… Read More
We’ve loved and lived on our porch from the day we completed converting it from a deck. It is truly an extension of our home. With social distancing and staying healthy top of mind, our porch has never seen so many guests. It is plenty big enough to space out and we have absolutely loved… Read More
We set up our outdoor movie system last night and enjoyed a wonderful evening under the stars with friends for the premier of the live action Mulan movie!! We ordered in Chinese food and our guests brought this darling dessert sushi. The movie was absolutely incredible. It was beautifully done and one of my favorite… Read More
There is just a small group of kids that move from our elementary school to our middle school. That alone was a hard adjustment for John entering 6th grade. With Whit starting middle school virtually, I dreamed for weeks about a way to help the small group of kids that were in his shoes find… Read More
The longest summer vacation has come to a close and we kicked off the first day of virtual school with our usual pancake breakfast!! Starting 6th and 9th grade, we have a Junior Raider and Raider in the house. The last time we had the same colors and mascot to work with was in 2nd… Read More
I was telling Honey last weekend that I haven’t felt like myself lately. Being the incredibly patient and understanding saint that he is, he helped me narrow in on the fact that one part of it is that I miss planning and entertaining. Of course I have done this for my little family since March,… Read More
I don’t know about y’all, but Hamilton on Disney + has been a highlight of our month. Honey rigged up a “screen on the green” and we invited our next door neighbors over for an alfresco dinner and movie in the driveway. Honey was in charge of drinks and had a lot of fun finding… Read More