New Year, New Goals

Hey everyone!  Welcome to 2019! I don't do resolutions per se but I do have some things that I'm looking forward to and/or hoping to accomplish in 2019.  I'm jotting them down here so that I can hold myself more accountable. Blog more often.  I can't believe it's been like 4 months since my last…

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of my 2017

I have to be honest and say I'm not really a resolution person. For the most part I'm pretty happy with myself and don't wish to change much. Obviously losing some weight might be in my best interest but it holds the same importance on New Years Day as it does the rest of the…

A Very Southern Christmas

A week ago my husband, son and I went to pick out our Christmas tree in t-shirts.  That is definitely a first for us coming from Wisconsin.  Apparently the winter weather is a little more forgiving here in North Carolina.  Haha! So we pick out a tree farm in the country outside the North end…

Fall Fun

Two weekends ago we finally went pumpkin picking.  Even though Teddy is almost 2 years old this is the first time we've been.  Last October was really rough with two deaths in our family and the last thing we were thinking about was pumpkins.  So this year we knew we had to make it a…

Hello from the Dirty South

My husband was offered an exciting new job opportunity in the Raleigh-Durham, NC area last month. So in what felt like about a 3 second timespan we put our house on the market, resigned from our previous jobs, said our goodbyes and moved 1,000 miles.  So now I'm suddenly a stay-at-home-mom in a small town…

Life Lately

A week after my miscarriage I decided to write about the experience.  At the time I felt like I needed to put all my thoughts and feelings out there to fully process it all.  And then my dog stepped on the keyboard and erased half of it. So it happened.  It's over.  It makes me…