On Friday we talked about these five tips to make your Christmas simpler. But ‘simple’ looks different to each family. What does it look like to your family? The first step in finding your Simple Christmas is to get to know what’s going on under that candy cane grin. What are your expectations, your sources of […]
Christmas was likely a holiday that you adored as a child. You can smile and rattle off some treasured family traditions. Even if it was something strange and simple, like stealing the Christmas tree from the Christmas Eve church service because your Dad was a holiday Scrooge and you hadn’t put up a tree […]
I really have no clue what is gonna work when it comes to parenting. I can do trial and error or get loaded down with all the ever-changing statistics; google science; and unwelcome advice available from my local grocery store cashier. At the end of the day, almost every experienced mother will tell you to […]
This post was inspired by a lady friend who listens to my mom woes, bad jokes, sends me cupcakes when I’m PMSing and cohorts over at A Little Light with me. I had mentioned to her that my college frugal ways led me to learn some practices of making my clothes last longer. She said […]
Happy Friday everyone! Who is having waffles for dinner?? You know I’m a sucker for Friday posts because it means I get to join some blogging ladies for #fiveonfriday and share with you a ‘list of five’. Today I wanted to kick it old school, get back to the roots of the early mom blogger and […]
Nostalgia of childhood toys lingers in the back of my brain. Sometimes I will smell something musty and sweet that reminds me of that little doll I had as a kid. Or see a shade of yellow like an ordinarily magical dress I loved as a girl. If I take a second to think about it, I […]
It was something that was learned at home. Watching competent hands dance around the kitchen, tossing about ingredients and measurements that have been memorized by how they feel at the fingertips. Kitchen secrets that get passed down in writing and in watching. I remember my mom’s pantry stuffed with boxes, they were full of the tattered […]
Do you ever go back in your Pinterest archives and check out all your old pins . . . . and then laugh at the board ‘2011 You’ made of ‘DIYs That I Will TOTALLY Do!’. Maybe you actually did them (you get your craft on sista!). Or maybe now the board is just called ‘Cool Stuff Other Chicks […]
From the very first time I let my young adult self be sweetly soaked in liquid courage, I rocked my ish on the dance floor. Even if this was the sober reality: You can call me the whitest Carlton you’ve ever met, I don’t care. There’s song in my heart and I just gotta dance. […]