When we sold our house last year, I needed some artwork for the wall that weren’t family pictures. I took my camera to downtown Atlanta and ended up framing three black and white pictures of the city I love. A friend was impressed and encouraged me to consider selling my photography. I don’t consider myself a professional by any stretch of the word, and still have a lot to learn. But I have a decent camera and I really enjoy…
I used to read anything and everything. I always had a book going. Then, I went to college, and I had to read so much for classes that I didn’t really want to read also for fun. Then I graduated and… along came the internet. And Twitter. And Facebook. And I started having babies. And slowly but surely, the number of books I read sank to about… zero. Perhaps I would get through one or two every year, but more…
This summer I am trying something new. I honestly can’t say where I got the idea – was it a podcast maybe? A blog post? I know it wasn’t my original idea so apologies that I can’t remember who inspired me. :-) I am doing a “Backyard Book Club” with the kids of our neighborhood! We’re meeting every week for 5 weeks where I read aloud the book “My Father’s Dragon” by Ruth Stiles Gannett while the kids enjoy Popsicles….
Warning, picture-heavy post below! We bought our first house in 2009, closing only ten days after our first child was born. It had been a rental and was being sold as a short sale. The price was right but it was definitely a fixer upper. I wrote more about that journey here, right after we finished a major renovation. Everyone says, you just finished fixing up the house! Why would you sell it? We loved the changes we made, but…
My grandfather around age 18 Today is my Grandfather’s 90th birthday, and his first birthday spent in Heaven. He passed away 9 months ago today. I don’t have a lot of memories of just me and him, but this saltines tin represents one strong memory. Every day for lunch, he would make himself a bowl of soup and pull out this tin of crackers. He would spread peanut butter on the crackers to have with his soup. Often I would…