slow mornings, simple joys

  I love a good cookbook! I do especially one that is filled with information and stories. That is one of the reasons I was drawn to Fresh From the Farm A Year of Recipes and Stories when I saw it on NetGalley. Plus I knew that I would be traveling to visit some family…

As you all know I am in training for the My Peak Challenge and one of the most important things about working out is to stay hydrated. Well that is where Fit for We  Mommy & Me Matching Water Bottles come in! Victoria and I can have matching water bottles while we are walking and…

I am going to be traveling all month next month. I am in the process of getting ready for it and one thing I realized was that I needed new luggage. I haven’t had new luggage since the one piece I got last year. So I went in search of luggage and then I had…

Boy that was a headline I never thought that I would write!I really have to be careful how much I share on this particular review because honestly it would be rather easy to over share. It’s the truth! How many times do you say things about your grooming habits to your friends and them not…

One thing that seems to happen a lot around my house is that my mother loses her key all the time. She has lost the one to the laundry room as well. I think it has more to do with her getting older than it does with her simply misplacing it. Although she is real…

  Okay you all have seen this sort of hat in the past. Chances are you most likely made fun of someone wearing a hat like this at least once. I do it to my brother every single time that he wears his and my daddy had a very special name for a hat this…

  Have I told you all how much the people in my home love coffee? Well let me explain, it is loved so much around here that we actually have a commercial coffee maker among the three coffee makers that we have. This is makes 40 cups of coffee! You read that correctly, 40 cups….

I told you not long ago about a book series that sucked me and let me searching for all of the other books like a crazy woman in the middle of the night. That series is Lost Highlander and I thought now I would share my thoughts with you. Lost Highlander (Book 1) was one…

I will admit that when I was searching NetGalley for some food related books the title, Little Bites: 100 Healthy, Kid-Friendly Snacks, caught my attention. I really need kid-friendly snacks that aren’t full of sugar. After all who doesn’t? Any book that can make my kids happy is a keeper in my opinion.

My hair is the bane of my existence! Well one of them at least. Truly it is, it is curly and frizzy and when I was growing up we didn’t have straighteners which meant I had to use an iron. Yep an actual iron to get the curl out. It was torture! As I grew…