An Almost Southern Way of Life Blog & Art Showcase
It’s New Year’s Eve, and I can’t believe it’s already time to put away the Christmas decorations, clean the house, get my boys ready to leave for another semester of college, and start my daughter on her final semester in high school. It’s a weekend for reflection, I think, and…
For those of you who started your Christmas decorating right after Halloween, I know that you must be desperate to get the wait over! Christmas is only one day away! Hooray! Actually, it’s today for my family. Tomorrow is my nephew’s birthday, so we celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve and celebrate him…
For the first time this year, I signed up for a volunteer shift at the Junior League of Jackson’s Mistloetoe Marketplace as a Sustainer. I figured, “Why not?” I loved my active years in JLJ, but I guess I felt like a needed a break from Mistletoe once I became a Sustainer;…
On Monday, I finished crossing off everyone on my Christmas list–family, friends, teachers, and church ministry. Then I contacted someone I’d met last year about this time and asked her about the current needs in her special ministry. In response to this friend’s request last year, my daughter and one of…
How was your Thanksgiving? I hope it was memorable in some good way! Yes, you’re right: I did not post anything to the blog last week. I was hosting Thanksgiving, and although it was a relatively quiet dinner this year and we could all fit around one table, I was still a…