The $40 Craigslist Find

The $40 Craigslist Find

I sometimes just get the itch to paint something. If there isn’t anything around the house that seems appealing, I start perusing Craigslist. I love the hunt for a &nbsp…

What Can I Do To Get More Followers?

After the last blog post, I had a lot of, “What’s next?” kind of questions. You like your IG name, you don’t have a lot of personal photos up…basically, you look like a home decor account, but you aren’t gaining…

Our Road to Fostering

I never in a million years thought we would be foster parents. In fact, every time I heard that someone was a foster parent or going through the process, I would think to myself something like, “Wow, better her than me. It takes a special person to do something…

When You Can’t Wait For the New Year

I’m not sure I’ve ever been so glad to say goodbye to a year as I was 2016. It was a year of hurt and just feeling off. On June 25th of that year, I suffered a miscarriage at ten weeks pregnant. Although I have four…

I never in a million years planned or expected to have a big family. And, let’s be honest, by today’s society’s standards three kiddos are considered a big family. So, me being pregnant with number five has put me in that “weird&#8221…

Pregnancy After Miscarriage

There are many things I’m thankful for, but one is that my first pregnancy was a normal ole pregnancy. I was able to enjoy the entire process from positive pregnancy test to ultrasounds to delivery. It’s something you take for granted, if you’ve never…

Turning Thirty-Nine

Yesterday was my birthday. I turned thirty-nine. Ten years ago, I would have dreaded ever seeing the day that I was almost forty. In fact, I can remember this somber feeling when I turned twenty-nine, knowing that I was about to enter my thirties. But I can tell…

The Room Switcheroo: Living Room

In April, we switched around three of our main living areas because the layout just wasn’t working for our expanding family. We call it the Big Switcheroo and this post is part three of the series. You can check out the first post here, which gives a little…

Fighting Alopecia

Today’s post is going to be a little more real than my normal home decor or date night posts. I’ve shared some of this in my Instagram stories, but I felt like it was time to transition our blog from random decor posts to what real…