Let me tell ya ’bout some of my faaaavorite girls. {Some new favorites and some old. ;)} We had this fall party at Sarah Jarvis’ house…cause Sarah Elizabeth is the sweetest, most awesome party hostess ever. 🙂 She planned a delightful game where we all exchanged gifts. {This was the gift I brought} And she […]

No, I’m not 40. I’m sure you knew that. But my mother…my dear mother is 40. Today. Because 40 years ago {yes…way back when in 1971} She was born. And then she lived…for 40 years. Let me tell you how it all happened. ~ Mam-maw was pregnant with her fourth baby. Second girl {but she didn’t […]

…at my tiring, crazy, wonderful, {did I say tiring?!?!} weekend! Started out with a verrrry late night out at friends’ house with yummy food, three rambunctious little boys, and their adorable dog. 🙂 Then I hit-the-ground-running as I jumped out of bed early the next morning to be at a certain precious someone’s birthday party. […]

So if you people are as great as I truly believe you to be, you know from the title that this post will be about The Fair. Because you will remember this scene from this sweet childhood favorite of mine. Thanks for being great. 😉 So, let it be known that no trip is complete […]

If you were to travel southwest of Paris, out of pure curiosity to see the landscape or just to take a leisurely drive you may soon come across a sign that looks like this: This may get you thinking and it might make you remember this post or perhaps even this post about a certain baby […]

“The years teach muchwhich the days never knew.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson | It crept up on me like a thief in the night, or a sneaky little brother, or a basset hound that sees a child with a cookie in their hand from behind…all the same, it crept up and I didn’t give it […]

That beautiful season… Summer… Filled is the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | {Hope you are in the mood to tarry for a bit…this may be on the lengthy-ish side but sure to make you smile. […]

First birthday parties are always so fun, aren’t they? Do you know of any other particular occasion where we go to such great lengths to decorate, celebrate, and encourage babies to stuff their faces with brightly colored sugary icing and fluffy white cake just because they look adorable once it’s smeared on every inch of their darling […]

I pride myself on knowing lots of information about various subjects. I know random food nutrition facts, sewing lingo, habits of different jungle animals, and the capitals to almost every state in this our United States. I know all the tricks to make a baby laugh, basic turtle care, I’m familiar with my camera inside […]