Three years ago I did something crazy. After a year of researching essential companies after having inconsistent results from store oils (friends don’t let friends by grocery store oils) – I bought my starter kit from Young Living with absolute certainly they were the best you could buy. I did the research and I knew…
Have hours of fun AND visit any of the Crayola Experience attractions for $15.25 a ticket.
A gentle glide of the rocker, a soft glow of a warm light, and the relaxing aroma of lavender or gentle baby piping through the air. That’s pretty close to the sweetest place to be with nursing babe or a snuggly kiddo. Pair those things with a good play on words, a gentle giant, and…
We had the best time this last weekend at the Texas motor Speedway at the 2019 Freedom Fest. We surprise the kids by taking them down and letting them know they were going to get to watch some of their favorite artists. We are Messengers, Mandisa, Micah Tyler, Pat Barrett, Austin French, and For King…
I love to cook in the kitchen. I cook normally 3 meals a day at home 7 days a week. Sometimes we’ll have the occasional breakfast or dinner out but usually you’ll find us eating at home. We have control of the ingredients (meaning it’s healthier and we know there aren’t things we don’t eat…
“Tomorrow isn’t promised.” We’ve all heard it or said it but we don’t truly GET IT until the rug is pulled out from beneath us. For me, it was my grandmother’s passing just over 2 years and two months ago. I went back and forth on when to go back as she’d get better, decline…
I remember mopping the floor with our Swiffer pads and making A stay off the floor until it was totally dry. I remember telling her “yuckies will get on your feet! I don’t want this in your body.” I’d hustled to get the floor mopped and her onto a task until the floor was dry….
Hello there, it’s been a while. It’s been nearly six months since I last found myself here for a post. It seems like forever and a blip of time all at once. We’ve been settled into north Texas since last September. January hit and it finally felt more like home. We spent much the last…
9 years ago, we said I do and what a wild 9 years it’s been. Here we are walking into our 10th year of marriage. It’s 12.75 years of being his girl. We’ve lived 10 different houses. 4 different states. 3 amazing kids. We’re just 2 people that know 1 thing for sure – at…
I feel like it’s almost redundant of me to tell you how much I love this time of year, yet again, but it’s so true. The hustle, the bustle, the gratitude, the transition of Thanksgiving to Christmas, etc etc etc. I really do love it all. I’m a little bit proud of myself, too. Why?…
There’s just something beautiful about the holiday season it’s a time to re-count the things that you’re grateful for and many blessings you have in life. There’s just something about it that makes us more in tune with the things or grateful for and the blessings in front of us. It’s a time for tradition…
I’d like to introduce all of you to our new family member, Bodhi (bow-dee). Lovingly already getting the nickname Bodhi Bear because when he “talks” he sounds like a grizzly bear. We adopted this sweet boy this last Friday from the local SPCA of Texas. He is about 10 months, is very well mannered, and…
There’s a constant “hamster wheel” feeling when you first move somewhere new. It’s when you move to anywhere new really but it’s even more so when you move hundreds or thousands of miles away from everything your past life consisted of. Add in kids and it feels nonstop. There’s an ebb and flow that comes…
There is just something about being able to hold something between your fingers. It’s like the written word for me, there’s something tangible about holding the pages in between my fingers and holding a pen in my hand. As much as I love the digital world, there is just something irreplaceable about it. I feel…
Well, we did it! We made it to our new home in Texas and we’re settling in. We got our home in PA cleared out and on the moving truck, spent 3 nights in a hotel in PA, 5 days in a hotel in Texas, put in all new carpet and we’re moved in. It’s…
On our final day in PA, we checked out Imagi-Nation! It is a fun center for little kids with big imaginations. This fun town allows children to explore jobs, their roles, and activities they see their parents do in the great big world. There are hours of play inside Imagi-Nation with an experience that’ll make…
Today we said goodbye to our PA home for the last time. Next month it’ll be the home where a new family comes and adds more to its stories. While it wasn’t my favorite home we’ve ever lived in, goodness we lived some good life in it while we were there. I kept things together…
I’ve shared before my boy’s love of trains and our recent trip to see Thomas the Train. We stop and look at trains, we have 2 basic wooden train sets, we rode on trains many times! Our boy just loves trains! Thanks to TOMY we were able to their brand new motorized train track a…
If you are anything like us, you’ve found yourself with too many toys that simply take up space and never get played with. It’s easy to accumulate a lot of toys that serve no real purpose in your home other than they were gifted and forgotten. I’m especially over toys that a) consume an insane…
In two weeks our moving truck will be pulling away from our house to make its journey to our new home in Texas. Thinking about how different our life will be a month from now is a bit surreal. Our time in Pennsylvania has been good to us on many levels. We’ve got the kindest…