Guess What Today Is...Random Act of Kindness Day! Every Feb 17th, all around the country, people are celebrating this beautiful day! Sometimes we get so wrapped up in our lives that we forget that a s…

One of the latest great things in my life has a lot to do with blessing others, and a lot to do with wine, too! I recently stumbled across a group on Facebook, Sisterhood of the Traveling Wine CAROL…

Kindness Matters I pray as my children grow up that they will know just how much kindness matters.

Dear friends, as we kick off a new work week, I am starting my work day on Monday morning looking out on Lake Norman. As much as I don't like to be in the water, I love to be near it, and certai…

Happy Friday, friends! I have been debating whether or not to share this story, mostly because I didn't want anyone to think I was sharing merely for applause or kudos. I made the decision to sh…

It's almost one week post-surgery for me, and day by day, I am feeling a bit more like my usual self. Not being able to be up and moving around like I normally do has had me singin' the Blue…

Often, when you hear about an act of kindness at a restaurant, the story is about a patron being kind. This one is about a kind waitress!

My 8-year-old son, Aiden recently had a track meet with his school.  He attends a private school here in our town and our track meet was against 3 other private schools in our area.  Aiden ran the 7…

Sorry for the grainy photo, I snapped it quickly a few days ago, but it fit in well with today's post and I wanted to use it.  I have 2 daughters. They are at the ages now (9 and 4/almost 5) whe…

We were recently at the beach and had dinner at one of my favorite restaurants, Hoskins. They have delicious food (look for it in my beach restaurant review coming soon) and their desserts are out o…

Every year, I make strides to be more helpful, more loving, and to perform random acts of kindness. With two kids in tow, I am often distracted and frazzled, and usually just want to get whatever we…

Our feast  I have shared before about all the ways we help our community at school.  Our Thanksgiving Feast was such a fun event for our kids and then fun for us to feed people at Rowan Helping Minis…

I don't often brag on my husband, and he wouldn't like it if he knew I was doing so, but this is just one of the many reasons I love him so much. We were out at Home Depot last week, and we …

My church family went on church wide retreat in the NC mountains.  My mom joined Aiden and I for the weekend and we all had a great time! It's always so refreshing to get away to the mountains a…

I have written a post about Giving Parties that my school does before,  but I am just so proud of my kids and what they learn from these parties.  I just had to share our first party of the year.  O…

What a weekend we had! B turns six this Tuesday, and we wanted to give him a really great birthday party this past weekend. He's had so much adjusting to do with a new baby sister at home, and t…

The past couple of weeks have been pretty busy for me and Hendrix. Yesterday was his party (it went very well and he had fun) and of course I planned to get too much done beforehand.  In our running…

Happy Sunday! I have been on the hunt for a special service project that my moms LifeGroup can work on this fall. There are tons of wonderful ideas for serving others out there, but a couple of week…