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A girl and her golden

I guess I need to change my blog name. In November 2024, Tyler and I added a dog to our family. An English Cream Golden Retriever named Gryffin. Yes, we are millennials. Yes, he’s named after Gryffindor from Harry Potter- also yes he has the Gryffindor harness and all the Harry Potter Bark toys. It…

Grace upon Grace

If you’ve read anything I’ve written, it’s obvious I’m Christian. I’m not the kind that is knocking on peoples doors to “save them”. You do you. Your belief system may be different from mine. That’s ok. I won’t sit here and argue with anyone about who’s right or wrong because it will accomplish nothing. I…

Better Homes & Gardens

We moved into this house two years ago today. We also stupidly decided to host a Fourth of July party the next day for our families. With moving boxes everywhere and little sleep. This year’s Fourth will be more low key. We’ll most likely go to the beach in our neighborhood and catch fireworks somewhere…

A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.” -Lois Wyse

I’ve heard if you’re friends for longer than seven years that your friendship is for life. I knew of Ivy and had met her several times throughout my life before we really connected in 2017 (seven years ago). We’re actually relatives. Per her own speech at my wedding “Long story short, I’m Lindsay’s cousin, but…

Life’s a wave, catch it.

Today is Tyler’s 29th birthday. He couldn’t figure out what he wanted to do. I threw out so many suggestions. But nothing seemed to be just right. Yesterday, in this crazy heat wave, he had mentioned today would be a good pool day. This made me think and ask “Well, do you want to do…

Thoughts over a cup of coffee

I’ve trained my body, but more importantly I accidentally trained the cats (it’s not that hard, we have four now) to wake up between five to six AM. This is great Monday through Friday, however, today is Saturday morning. I attempted to fall back asleep for two more hours until I gave up and gave…

“Shine Bright”

“Lindsay’s back” said Samantha, my hair stylist of ten+ years as she was blow drying the bangs I’ve been trying to grow out for God knows how long… To be honest my relationship with her has lasted longer than most of my jobs, friendships, and every single romantic relationship. She knows more about me and…

Black Coffee. Red Wine. Repeat.

I started drinking coffee in high school. It was mostly cream and sugar with a splash of coffee. In college, I got my gold card at Starbucks. Caramel Machiattos and Vanilla lattes were my go to. Then working 80+ hours and little sleep it then became a Americano or anything with an extra shot of…

Reflections on a Vintage Skirt

“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles”- Audrey Hepburn Vintage has been a large part of my style since college. Wiggle dresses, swing dresses, wool skirt, sweaters, Malco Modes petticoats,…