Our kids love holidays and all of the goodies that come along with them, and I LOVE coming up with creative gift baskets for everyone (gifts are my love language) so it's no surprise that Easter baskets are a big deal at our house. But between four kiddos, and Fred and I both being neat…
Continue reading ➞ 20 Easter Basket Ideas (that aren’t junk)
I woke up this morning, filled with all sorts of anxiety, one of them being "What on earth am I gonna blog about today?" I've committed to publishing two blog posts a week, The Weekly Tea goes out on Friday and then a special post on Tuesdays. Sometimes I plan the topics months in advance,…
Happy Friday beautiful people. I hope this week has been good to you and that you are being gentle with yourself during these crazy times. I've been a little off this week. I have a wicked knee injury that doesn't seem to be healing despite my taking the week off from jogging and trying to…
Okay... So I didn't exactly do **every** color of the rainbow but it was pretty darn close! One year ago exactly, I decided to finally take the plunge and start experimenting with fashion hair colors. My hair is naturally dirty blonde, but I had been dyeing it black for years. This post is to document…
Each year, the family keeps getting bigger and bigger so I finally decided that this year we would implement the four gift rule for the entire family. That being, each member gets a gift from the category of something you want, something you need, something to wear and something to read. At first, I was…
Hey Friends! This week I wanted to share three simple life hacks I have been using for awhile now that help keep my grocery bill low. Feeding a family of five is no cheap thing... if we all have peanut butter sandwiches for lunch we literally will go through almost an entire loaf of bread…
Continue reading ➞ Three Things I Make to Keep my Grocery Bill Low
There's not much on this sweet green earth that I love more than gardenias. They are my all time favorite flower (with sunflowers coming in close second place). The aroma is so sweet and nostalgic and will always remind me of summers spent at my grandparents house where the tea was extra sweet, we were…
I'm gonna be honest with you, this post started off as a rant. After a couple of really tough weeks and feeling like I'm pouring from a completely empty cup, I'm fed up with the way society expects us moms to mother as if we don't have full time careers and work as if we…
Hey Friends, it's been awhile since I've given any sort of personal updates so I thought I would sit down and answer some of the questions we have frequently been getting asked and give a super condensed version of what's been going on in our household over the past month or so. We have been…
Something that seems so ingrained in southern culture is the art of facade casting. I've seen the women closest to me do it and my acquaintances do it all the time. You hear them conversing on the phone or a conversation over coffee "So how have you been" The friend asks. They reply "Oh we've…
