Journal

#2,200 Oh Fifteen.

I don’t know how it’s possible, but somehow 2015 has come and gone. It feels like it happened faster than years past, and altogether different from...

#2,199 Cleaning Christmas + Rorie Visit.

It took every bit of today to get our Christmas decorations put away and the house deep cleaned, and I relished the opportunity to just be there, p...

#2,198 Friendmas.

A couple years ago, Ben, Jim Mal and I had a little fancy date night to Weidmann’sin Meridian at Christmastime and decided we’d make it an annual t...

#2,197 Instagram Explosion.

Because Joanna was gracious enough to give us a shout out on her instagram today, the Lucky Luxe account exploded and gained 1,000 new followers. ...

#2,196 Country Drive (for Tires).

So Ben found out about this guy who lives waaaaaay out in the country near his parents’ farm who sells the kind of tires we need for the Tahoe for ...

#2,195 Napier Christmas.

We got a late start this morning but by 1:30 we finally made it to Ben’s parents’ in north Mississippi and everyone was waiting to open presents. B...

#2,194 Christmas Day.

Very little about our Christmas routine is routine since our families have too many moving parts to make a plan we stick with every year, but in re...

#2,193 Christmas Eve (The Hammers).

Remember this summer, that day Ben gave me my 30th birthday book and then we spent the day doing things from my childhood? That day we helped my da...

#2,192 Clark Christmas Eve Eve + Dress.

As we always do the week of Christmas, mama’s side of the family came to her house for a big lunch and some gift giving. She made her famous gumbo ...

#2,191 Family Day.

Over the weekend we made a plan with our family on the coast to spend the day together in Laurel since this weekend will be kind of rushed with lot...

#2,190 You’ve Got Mail + Good Help.

When I got to the shop this morning, there was a package waiting for me. A surprise from Lianna, an instagram friend who is a reader here, who sent...

#2,189 Star Wars Sunday.

Well, so I’ve never seen Star Wars. Any of them. I know how ridiculous that is. My brother was a child in the hey-day of Star Wars and was obsessed...