Happy Friday! I know so very many of you are excited for your weekends, and with this gorgeous weather here in North Georgia, I don’t blame you! Today is one of the most beautiful days we’ve had all year, with 75 degrees as our current temperature and breezy, gusty winds that seem to dance festively with…
With spring in full bloom and summer just around the corner, I thought what better way to enjoy the weather than with my strawberry banana lactation smoothie recipe! This smoothie is super easy to make with just 5 simple ingredients! Let me first say that I have been struggling with milk production, and I have…
Pregnancy is weird. I mean, really! I’ve always dreamed of being pregnant, feeling the baby move, having the “glow”, and honestly all of that is amazing, but there’s a whole lot more that women either forget or don’t share because it’s just strange. I had a lot of symptoms in my first trimester that I…
Hello all! I’ve done a LOT of reading since finding out I was pregnant, and I am still surprised at the overwhelming amount of information out there. One thing I constantly looked at, even before I started having consistent symptoms, was what to expect from my body each trimester. So I’ve thought long and hard…
The New Year has come in a whirlwind! 2018 disappeared almost faster than it came! But I entered into 2019 armed with my New Year’s resolutions ready to do business. Now here it is in March, and I do believe I’ve made a little progress. This post is not actually about my resolutions. Instead, it’s…
Have you ever sat still for a moment, maybe at home, and felt a sudden tidal wave of worry and anxiety bear upon you? And this tidal wave, you realize, isn’t just now hitting you, but instead has been chipping away at you like the waves on a coastal cliff. This was me a month…
October has proven to be an extremely busy month for me! Especially the past 2 weeks, with my formative evaluation at work (after 3 weeks of fretting about when it was going to happen), a week of book fair, full moon, Reading Night on Thursday at school that lasted from 5-7:30, Friday with our Harvest…
Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts… And more thoughts! Being of an anxious, overthinking, and sometimes fearful disposition, I battle thoughts running through my mind like that scene in The Lion King where Simba sees the herd of wilderbeasts fleeing the hyenas and tripping over themselves and running into everything in the canyon. Thoughts and questions and scenarios…
Recently I needed to make some punch for a retirement party at my elementary school. I volunteered myself for this duty because the usual ginger ale and grape juice recipe was beginning to get old, and I knew I had a the best punch recipe. A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT to Mary Alice who introduced me…
I love displaying photographs of my favorite moments. It seems to make a house feel more like a home, and photos can be excellent conversation starters if you are welcoming guests into your living space. When we moved into our little 900-ish square foot duplex, I quickly realized that the more we put on the…
One of my absolute most favorite things to do as the seasons change is to change the flower decorations in my church. Since spring is all about fresh, fragrant air that brings a sense of new beginnings and energy, my mother and I decided to head on over to our local Michael’s store to see…
Recently I went on my third horse ride – ever. Yes, only my third. I realize that I live on the ranch and that I have access to these horses 24/7, but I’ll be honest. By the time I come home from work, do my housework, cook dinner or go out for dinner, run errands,…