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Welcome to my new site! I’ve made the leap from Blogger to an independently hosted WordPress blog. I hope to be more cohesive and focused with my posts, and am slowly moving over some of my favorite posts from the other blog – those will all be back dated and can be seen in the [...]
Can you read his necklace? It says AFRICA. And in a few short months my boys and I will be heading over there. To Nigeria. I still can’t believe it is happening. My grandparents are missionaries there – and have been for a long, long time. My mum lived there until she left for college [...]
I don’t have a lot of pictures of me just being with the boys, and over the past week Paul has been changing that and these pictures mean more to me than I would have imagined. We played Ring Around the Rosy – until the boys, who were wearing white, dramatically fell down at the [...]
Yesterday we took a last minute trip to the beach – a 6 hour round trip drive for 2 hours on the beach. One of my favorite parts about our trips to the beach are the long car rides for us to talk. Paul talks best when he drives. I generally like to spend longer [...]
I haven’t written an update on my Thrift Store Shopping Challenge in awhile because, to be honest, it’s no longer a challenge. My closet is now full of clothes I love and every item has been purchased second hand. I have gotten more compliments on my clothes – from friends and strangers – since I [...]
Summer is my favorite season and I just love living in the south as we get so many hot summer months down here. I thought I would share some of our summer plans and share links of those who have summer plans that have inspired me. We are planning on keeping things low key and [...]
I have long aspired to stop buying bread from the grocery store and make all of my own from scratch. I buy a lot of flour tortillas and it recently hit me that I should try making my own, and so I did. WOW! What an incredible difference compared to store bought. These are delicious! [...]
It is easy to create a nice looking table when company will be over to see it. When I know other people – people other than my own family – will get to enjoy a pretty looking table. And lately I have begun to wonder why. Why don’t I use nicer dishes for every day [...]
Inspired by The Nester’s exchange she hosted last year I decided to host one in my home for the girls from church. I put the invitation on Facebook and emailed it to those who aren’t on FB. Each girl was told to bring 3 items that she no longer used to be traded for 3 [...]
Last week I started the process to make vanilla extract- I have never done it before so can’t tell you how amazing it is yet, but from everything I have read it is suppose to be great. I picked up some vanilla beans at Earth Fare. They came in a pack of 4 for $8. [...]
