For both of our daughters’ weddings we had small budgets and big ideas. To make their wedding special and not feel like we were missing details, we had to make a lot of things ourselves. That was fine with us; we enjoy doing projects together! And these were definitely a whole family project! After telling…
Oh my goodness, I was looking through the blog recently and hadn’t realized that I never shared about my two daughter’s weddings. How could I forget that? Seriously, post-wedding stupor is real and I think I was just barely hanging on for months after each one. But I am back to normal-ish now and I…
Have I told you that I made all of the flowers for our daughter’s wedding? Like…I made each and every flower out of paper and glue with my own two hands. When Grace and Wesley got engaged, she told me they wanted a book theme for the wedding. “Mom,” she said, “I was really hoping you could…
The bug has hit me. You know the one….spring cleaning, or call it post-wedding-cleanup, or possibly “I can’t take this messy house anymore!” syndrome. Whatever you call it, it hit me hard last week. It was great timing too because all of my older kids were gone to the Christian Worldview Film Festival Thursday-Saturday, so…
We had several weddings to attend, each in different towns. “OK,” I told myself, “You just have to be prepared.” I got the clothes ready in advance and made sure the car was gassed up and cleaned out. Meals ready – check.
And the next 2 weeks aren’t looking promising for getting any closet cleaning done. Please tell me I am not the only person who looks at their calendar and sees a light schedule, then a week later it’s full beyond what seems humanly possible to accomplish.