Around the House

  • Top Ten Tuesday

    First, thank you all so much for your support and encouragement after my last post.  It filled my heart and gave me confidence to just keep going.  And thank you again for giving…

  • WWJD: My Aldi Experience

    Today, we are continuing to explore things that make me say, “What would Jamie do?”  If you didn’t catch my last post, Jamie is my good friend and parenting mentor and if it’s…

  • WWJD: Summer Snack Trays

    I mentioned on Instagram the other day that I had a parenting mentor.  I tossed it out there jokingly, but the more I thought about it, the more it is absolutely true.  Jamie…

  • Coming Up For Air

    I have been working from home for two weeks now and I have discovered that I’m not very good at it.  Actually, the problem is that I’m REALLY good at it.  I sit…

  • Office vs. Guest Room: A Tie

    A few weeks ago, I posted about how Chris had bashed my dreams of a lovely home office to shreds with his cold, cold heart.  Since then, we haven’t really talked about the…

  • Weekend Recap: Summer Countdown!

    We had a long, lazy Memorial Day weekend.  We were supposed to get some nasty weather from a tropical storm, but the rain never came.  It was super windy and cloudy all weekend,…

  • Day in the Life: A Crazy Saturday

    I love to read “Day in the Life” posts from other bloggers.  I just love seeing how people spend their time and collecting little snippets of ideas that I can introduce with my…

  • How to Mom: Multicultural Day

    So, a few weeks ago, Gracie brought home this huge Multicultural Day project.  She was super excited and wanted to start working on it right away, but I told her we had two…

  • Summer is Coming

    We have been enjoying such beautiful weather here in Orlando for the past few weeks.  It’s been sunny with a breeze and highs in the low 80’s.  Of course, this is just the…