by Julie | Dec 2, 2020 | Life Stuff
Thanksgiving is normally a busy time at our house, with a full dinner table on Thursday and a house full of extended family on Saturday. This year it was just the five of us for obvious reasons, and while I hated the reason for the change in tradition, I did enjoy the...
by Julie | Jun 4, 2020 | Life Stuff
Life feels like it is slowly returning to normal, or what now passes for normal anyway. As we start to emerge from the stay at home order it’s hard to even remember what the last couple of months have consisted of, but my cell phone camera has some clues. Note:...
by Julie | Feb 6, 2020 | Life Stuff
I love Pinterest. I’m sure I’m not alone in that sentiment. Pinterest tells me that I have 122 boards with over 7900 pins. That’s a lot of pinning! There are a few ways I use Pinterest, however, that make it less of a time suck and more of a tool....
by Julie | Jan 1, 2020 | Books & Reading, Life Stuff
At the beginning of 2019, I made a resolution to read more. I wrote about it here. My original goal was to read 3 books a month, or 36 books for the year. I quickly revised that to 24-30 books, and I ended the year up with 25 books read. About halfway through the...
by Julie | Jul 29, 2019 | Books & Reading, House & Home, Life Stuff, Travel
We are just back from Pensacola, Florida where we went to see my sister’s boyfriend retire from a 23-year career with the Navy. It was such a moving ceremony and it was an honor to be there. The retirement ceremony took place in the National Naval Aviation Air...
by Julie | May 7, 2019 | Entertaining, Life Stuff
Two weeks ago our oldest Lindsey got engaged to her boyfriend Morgan. He took her to a little winery that has become “their place” and proposed to her in the vineyards. The super sweet owner of the winery helped him with a lot of the details, and then...
