Index Card Project
A while back, my favorite blogger initiated a painting project that inspired me. She challenged herself to paint 100 meadows in oil, a medium with which she was not so comfortable. And she chose to do it…
Laughter, the Best Medicine
Have you ever heard something silly that tickled you pink? I mean, it settled so deeply in your giggle box that you struggle to not think about it and burst out laughing again? Well, sometimes we…
Installing Vinyl Plank Flooring in the Home Gym
I like to think of myself as a DIYer… wannabe. If only I had a partner-in-crime to encourage me to take more chances and try out techniques that I think require a degree, and would point out…
A Proper Tea Party
My niece Lauren gave me the perfect opportunity to host a tea party when she became engaged to be married last year. I’ve hosted a tea party once before for my daughter’s 10th birthday. As elegant as that one…
Everything Around the Kitchen Sink
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When I stumbled across Pinterest about 7 years ago, I discovered a treasure. For years, I collected ideas in a cheap three-ring binder filled with clear plastic page protectors. It contained recipes from Southern Living (exclusively because “they”…
Dizzy Izzy
Thinking back on God's goodness, I have to recall the times that He's taken our most insignificant prayers so seriously. My husband and I have always made wishlists about the big decisions in our lives and…
An Unexpected Answer to Prayer
We had lived for six years in a wonderful neighborhood with awesome neighbors, but for some unexplainable reason, both my husband and I felt it was time to move. We started a 3-year search for the…
Nate’s Senior Pics
My oldest child, Nate, graduated May 2019. The summer before his senior year, I went into a tizzy trying to get all my parent-of-a-senior’s ducks in a row. I scheduled a college student who is majoring in Photography…
Classic Mississippi Reticence
In 2003, my husband accepted an offer to return to Mississippi to practice medicine following a two-year fellowship at Vanderbilt in Nashville. We returned a few months before the end of the fellowship to begin the search…
Healing in the midst of a plague
Spring Break 2020. We returned home from a week in the mountains in North Georgia to chaos. In our cozy cabin, we had been somewhat isolated from the turmoil spreading as rapidly as COVID 19 in our Southern…