If you follow me on Instagram, you already heard the big news:  we’re moving!  Exactly one month from today, we are packing up our lives and moving…five minutes away from where we currently live.  It’s a loooong story (and pretty boring really) so I’ll spare you the details, but all you really need to know […]

If you’ve been reading my lil blog for any length of time, you know I love movies, and especially quoting movies.  The movies I quote the most are definitely my favorite movies, including, but not limited to:  The Princess Bride, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, and Coming to America.  Yet my most oft quoted line doesn’t […]

When I was a kid, I had a lot of nicknames…my dad is hilarious and often did silly things with our names to make us laugh.  He would tell us stories where it was obvious my siblings and I were the main characters, but every time we would call him on it, he insisted this […]

Well, hello my Besties!  Is anyone else going a bit cuckoo with the whirl of back to school?  No lie, I’ve been up since 3:45 am because there is just so. much. going. on.  Today was my older son’s first day back and I’m just hoping he got a better night’s sleep than his mama! […]

Years ago, I remember being absolutely entranced by a mom blogger whose blog was a collection of homemaking tips, family fun ideas, and gorgeous interior shots of her house.  She would bake and create amazing crafts and home projects while her children napped.  But she had six children, which often left me wondering two things: […]

Marmee March is, without a doubt, my favorite literary character of all time.  And not only that, but I kind of want to be her.  She is full of kindness, goodness, wisdom, and grace.  She is loving, just, and sweet.  I doubt she ever had a #momfail.  Well, actually she admitted to Jo that her […]

Looking for everyone’s approval is something I have spent a lot of my life doing.  The better half of it, I would say.  Even when it appeared to everyone else that I didn’t care what they thought, that I would say or do anything to make someone laugh regardless of how ridiculous it made me […]

As much as I love talking about and writing about self care, let’s face it:  sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.  Your kitchen needs to get cleaned, your bills need to be paid, your groceries need to be bought.  Sometimes, the list feels endless and you wonder “how will I have time […]

Happy 4th of July to all of you who are celebrating!  I hope you are having a blast with family and friends today and enjoying the extra long weekend!   As I mentioned yesterday, we just got back from an incredible trip to Disney World and I am still reeling from the joy that it […]