Family

Colorado
Family, Travel

A TRIP TO DENVER, COLORADO

  Ultimate frisbee has been a huge part of our lives since our oldest son introduced it to us fifteen years ago. If you haven’t heard of it, imagine a football game combined with a lacrosse game but with a frisbee. Bad explanation but go with it. We’ve been cheering our kids on since then. […]

Airlie Gardens
Family, Travel

AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

If you have followed my blog for any amount of time, you know that I LOVE looking at houses. I’m always on Zillow.com looking for a new home for our family that keeps getting smaller and smaller. We’re empty nesters with our last child in college visiting at breaks and weekends. So we finally made […]

Family

THE BEST MOTHER’S DAY GIFT

As Mother’s Day approaches, I can’t help but remember all the times the LOML and my kids have asked me, “What do you want for Mother’s Day?” I’ve held the title of Mother, Mom, Ma, Dude, Bruh, nag, (just to name a few) for 33 years. I’ve received the sweetest self-made cards with illegible writing […]

carolina beach
Family, Travel

A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY AT THE BEACH ~ Thirty five wonderful years!

Thirty five years ago, I married the most wonderful man! This week we’re celebrating and reminiscing about all the wonderful and not so wonderful times we’ve shared together. Marriage is hard work!! If anyone tells you different, you’re being fibbed to!! There’s a lot of compromise, apologizing when you’re wrong and sometimes when you’re right, […]

Alyssa's Bridal Shower
Family, Travel

SPRING BREAK IN FLORIDA

I consider myself a North Carolina girl (we’ve lived here for 28 years) but I grew up in Boca Raton, Florida, a little town south of West Palm Beach and north of Miami Beach. It was a small quiet town when my dad first moved his family there in 1970. Today it is a popular […]