Have you ever flown in a plane and heard the instructions about oxygen masks? You know, the one that tells adults to put masks on first, then assist children? There is a reason for that. If the adults pass out from lack of oxygen, then they can’t assist the children. In order to be a help, adults must take care of themselves first. You can’t squeeze water from a dry.. Read More
Currently
Reading… Friction by Sandra Brown, Anything by Jennie Allen, and Wonder by RJ Palacio. This whole reading-multiple-books things is new to me, but I am really enjoying it. Wonder I read at school, because it is juvenile fiction and I’m considering sharing it with my fourth graders. Friction I read anytime, because it is relaxing, but also really suspenseful and has a strong plot. Anything is taking me a while. It is.. Read More
Welcoming Fall
I feel like I’m repeating myself when I say I LOVE FALL (because I am!), but I really do so love this season! I’m super excited for cooler temperatures (they will get cooler, right?), orange and yellows outdoors, and pumpkin-all-the-things. I habitually do a few things every year around this time to get my home ready for the new season. Bring out all the throws. The softer, the better. I.. Read More
iTunes Tells All
I am a great starter-of-things, but I’m not so good with follow-through. So when I saw Brandy’s #Blogtember challenge, I thought it looked like fun but I knew there was no way I could commit to blogging every day. But then I saw a few of the topics that I wanted to cover, so I thought I’d jump in half-heartedly. As in, I’ll blog on the topics I have something.. Read More
Labor Day, She Reads Truth, and Other Random Tidbits
{image source} Happy Labor Day, friends! We are enjoying a relaxing, lazy day off around here. It’s been a cool 90 degrees this weekend {insert crazy-eyed emoji here!} but fall is right around the corner and I could not be happier. These next four months are my absolute favorite time of the year. Cooler temperatures, college football, pumpkins, CHRISTMAS. Fun times, y’all, fun times. In other news, a new She.. Read More
The Noonday Delivery Disaster
A few weeks ago, I ordered some amazing new Noonday products through Lisa that I was super excited about. I stalked my email notification from UPS letting me know the ship dates and tracking information. When I finally got the ship date, I was thrilled. When the ‘delivered’ notice came through, it took everything in me not to leave work, drive home and get my new goodies. But I waited… Read More
#Collaboreads: A Sweethaven Summer
I missed the July #Collaboreads link-up with Mr. Thomas and Me and Rachel A Dawson, but I’m back this month with another book to share with you. This month’s topic was a book set during the summertime. I was scrolling through Instagram the day I read Rachel and Amber’s July link-ups and I saw a post by Courtney Walsh about her new book. The title? A Sweethaven Summer. And it just happened to be.. Read More
The Adventures of Learning Spanish, Part 1
You guys, this is going to be fun(ny), I can already tell. My Rosetta Stone CD only arrived yesterday and already I know. Let me give you some backstory. I took two years of Spanish in high school. I have worked for eight years in a school with a very high (40%) population of Spanish speaking students. These two things combined mean that I know just enough of a second.. Read More
Simply Tuesday
And just like that, we’ve gone from loosey-goosey summer to the full on hustle of a school year. School day, soccer practice, piano lessons, gymnastics. Throw in church services and church/volunteer activities and my uber desire to do more and please everyone and my soul has been hijacked by the hustle. There is zero time. Well, maybe there is 30 minutes of time. Or even an hour. You guys, I’m clinging.. Read More
Unraveled
Back in April, Lisa and I had the pleasure of attending a women’s conference at Shades Mountain Baptist church in Birmingham. We came home with dreams of hosting our own conference at TBC. Fast forward three months, several Starbucks meetings, even more phone calls and emails later and our dream became reality. Saturday night, TBC hosted it’s first ever Women’s Conference. Originally, I wanted to call it Wrecked, just because.. Read More