How To Be Everything: A Book Review

How To Be Everything: A Book Review

Background Photo by Jan Kahánek on Unsplash; Design by Jodie Parris Follow me on Goodreads Hello my loyal readers and happy September! The temperatures are dropping and I am ready for it! Though I enjoy all seasons, the Fall and Spring seasons are probably two of my favorites, 

Managing my household with Tody: A Review

Managing my household with Tody: A Review

Background Photo by Delaney Van on Unsplash; Design by Jodie Parris Hello my loyal readers! Can you believe it’s August and school will be back in session. I don’t have any children of my own so I am not in countdown mode until the first day of school 

Honeymoon in Puerto Rico

Honeymoon in Puerto Rico

Hello my loyal readers! Can you believe it’s already July, and we are in the long (and hot) dog days of summer? Something I always enjoy this time of year is seeing where everyone goes on their family vacations and trips. This year my husband 

Dandie Wedding: My Top Five Memories

Dandie Wedding: My Top Five Memories

Hello my loyal readers! I can’t believe it’s June, and my husband and I are celebrating our two year wedding anniversary already. Time really has flown by since our wedding day! Since planning the wedding and settling into married life is why I took a 

Finding Our Forever Home

Finding Our Forever Home

Photo by Tierra Mallorca on Unsplash and design by Jodie Parris Hello my loyal readers! I hope your Spring is off to a blooming start. I know I have been LOVING all the spring blooms around me, even though my allergies have been miserable this year. Last month 

Journey Home Series: The Final Chapter

Journey Home Series: The Final Chapter

Photo by Matt Howard on Unsplash and design by Jodie Parris. Make sure you read the other excerpts from The Journey Home Series Seven years ago I moved back home to Western North Carolina. When I first moved back I wanted to capture the story as to why 

Long Time Coming…Bringing my Blog Back to Life!

Long Time Coming…Bringing my Blog Back to Life!

Photo by Unseen Studio on Unsplash and design by Jodie Parris. Title inspired with lyrics from “Miss Americana” by Taylor Swift. Hello my loyal readers! It’s been almost 2.5 years since my last post, and a lot of things in life have changed to say the least. The 

Dandie Wedding: 232 Days to go!

Dandie Wedding: 232 Days to go!

Hello my loyal readers! It’s been a few weeks since my last blog post, and over a month since my last wedding planning post. My fiancé and I have been working so hard on the wedding the past couple of weeks and doing our best 

Stepping for Mental Health: Four Year Reflection of 10,000 steps a day!

Stepping for Mental Health: Four Year Reflection of 10,000 steps a day!

Hello my loyal readers! Long time and no new blog postings. Anybody else feeling like life is moving a million miles per minute right now or is that just me? I apologize for being so MIA these days. Between work craziness and planning the wedding, 

Dandie Wedding: 274 Days to go!

Dandie Wedding: 274 Days to go!

Hello my loyal readers! Can you believe it’s already September? The month of August always feels long because the days are exhausting and long within themselves. School goes back in and we are in a sea of changes, with both the seasons and life in 

Dandie Wedding: 301 Days to Go

Dandie Wedding: 301 Days to Go

Hello my loyal readers! Can you believe August has hit us already?!?! Some families are already back into school mode. Working in higher education to me the school year starts come August 1st, or sometimes even in mid-July. Going into this week I knew it 

2 Years in Counseling: A Reflection

2 Years in Counseling: A Reflection

Hello my loyal readers! It’s been a little bit in regards to posting with preparing for my girls trip to the Outer Banks, and things with work picking up right away once I got back. After not traveling anywhere far in a year I was