This past weekend Ellie’s AHG Troop had their annual mother-daughter dinner and, like always, it did not disappoint. They decided to go with a Mary Poppins theme and it was the cutest. Everything was decorated from either scenes from the original Mary Poppins movie or the newest Mary Poppins Returns movie. We even had a […]
Originally the title for this post was going to be “How to Respond to Social Media Trolls”, but it didn’t seem fair to the Trolls. Those cute little fuzzy creatures always get a bad rap when it comes to social media. All joking aside, now that I’ve been blogging, I’ve been exposed to a whole […]
This Sunday would have been my grandma’s 97th birthday and it’ll also be our first birthday without her since she passed away last year. I haven’t really grieved her passing, but this month has been hard. At first, I was just grateful that I got to see her one last time before she passed. I […]
We FINALLY finished our mother daughter Valentine’s crafting project after running into several obstacles along the way. Despite the roadblocks, the best part was getting to spend some time with Ellie doing something that she really enjoys. We ended up making some clipboards for her American Heritage Girls (AHG) pen pal, teachers (for teacher appreciation […]
Over the past year our kids have asked some pretty hard questions: How come dad was in the hospital? Why did great grandma have to die? When are we going to go back to our old church? Is there any way dad can unfire himself? Some of those questions I don’t even have the answers […]