Home & Garden

  • Last Minute Ideas for the Fourth

    Our teenage nephews are staying with us this week, bringing the total amount of teenagers to our home to five!  It’s been an interesting week planning meals because they seem to want to eat around the clock! We didn’t make… Continue reading

  • Our First South Carolina Party

    We are opening up our new home to guests for the first time.   It will be Sunday as we are hosting a “Roaring 20’s” themed event for the youth group where we worship.   So many plans, so much to do.… Continue reading

  • Insanity & a Winner

    “Mothers are all slightly insane.”  ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye   It’s a full-time, over-worked Momma kind of week (and it’s only Tuesday);  volleyball practices, monitoring students during standardized tests at school, doctor’s appointments, passport issues, dishwasher broken,… Continue reading

  • The World is a Rose…

    “I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves.”  ~Lucy Maude Montgomery ~ Anne of the Island   David Austin “Christopher Marlowe” English Rose   The pitiful rose bush… Continue reading