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 ...
Our American Flag
I am a very emotional person, but not many things make me cry. On the short list of things that do are my kids growing up, issues of injustice, and any act of patriotism. (Those soldier-coming-home-surprise videos get me every single time!). So you can imagine the mess I was ...
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 ...
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 ...
5 Things To Know For Today
It's one thing to write a blog post. It's a whole other thing to know people actually read said blog post. I tend to operate under the impression that no one reads what I write, so it always surprises and excites me to find out people sometimes do. I've purchased Rosetta Stone to help me learn ...
The Story of Us
That handsome stud and I have been married for ELEVEN years, today. Crazy, right? We met in Iuka, Mississippi, at the go-cart track, the summer after I graduated high school. When we were both in high school, we dated siblings. We never actually met, because Justin is six years older than ...
