We are on Spring Break. We are on Spring Break and we are on the Outer banks of North Carolina, and I am in heaven. Can you feel how relaxed I am.   I am sitting here, it is Monday morning, but I am not yelling at the kids to hurry up, or throwing together… Read More I cleaned my Old Country House…and then I left.

     It has taken me almost my entire life to grasp fully, what to me now is an undeniable fact of life. Most of life, is relatively boring. By boring, I mean, well boring. Non-eventful. Mundane. Just everyday stuff. Now before you write me off as a total killjoy. Let me add that I… Read More the tiny moments

Today begins Spring Break!Hip Hip Hooray! Now I can sit around the house! Wait, haven’t I been doing that for 5 weeks already with my sick little boy? Still, we have hit the pause button on the hustle and bustle and all of the kids are still sleeping in their beds. I love Spring break.… Read More A Day in the Life of a Tiger

A shout out to my cousin Amandas delicious muffin of a baby boy. Timmy is one today.I am always stunned at how fast OTHER peoples baby’s turn one, two, three…then are all of a sudden in school. For me, that first year (in all good ways) was like time took on a different pace, and… Read More Timmy is one!

There are so many things about my old country house and my old country life that are like a splinter in my foot.   The annual arrival of the peach blossoms, right around the corner, is not one of them.  The first time I saw them I had to pull over the car.  A sea of… Read More Peach Blossoms

Happy  Birthday to my Brother Ford! lil pumpkin 3rd grade March 29 is a very popular Birthday is our Family!!!                                                                       … Read More Happy Birthday Ford

You would have loved my Mom. She was a kick. She drove me crazy, and in so many ways, she did not embody the typical Mom persona, but she made the most of what she had to work with. My Mom with her siblings, she was the eldest of 6 My Mom’s name was “Bonnie… Read More Little Darling

 I am not, by nature,  a morning person. However, ironically, I do love getting up in the mornings, before my house is awake, making my coffee and then just sitting quietly in my living room. It is when I think clearly and get a handle on my day. I can hear the hum of the… Read More Sunday Morning

      Hard to believe that we have been in our Old Country House for almost 7 years.      Here is a before Photo of the living room looking into the dining room. ( I recently moved the dining room right off the kitchen and now this room is an extension of the Living… Read More 7 years good luck