Hello, I'm Nicole, an engineer by degree but a creative at heart! I am the author of this family, lifestyle blog.
I keep a mason jar full of honey, lemon & ginger cough syrup in our fridge at all times. It doesn’t matter what season it is, as long as there are young children in our home, our fridge will have…
A few months ago I started baking a batch of muffins to eat for breakfast nearly every Sunday before church. We eat them on the way to church and during the first 2-3 days during the week. My family absolutely…
Friends! When you’ve learned to consistently cook things from scratch going on a few years now, then up and decide to take a shortcut (because pregnancy), and cook something from a box your family WILL notice. I started cooking most…
Madison turned four last month and we celebrated her day at Monkey’s Joes on the Saturday afterwards. Mario and I agreed early on that we weren’t going to do big parties/events for our kid(s) birthdays until age five and beyond.…
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Adulting I’m stoked, y’all! We’ve had some of our old furniture for what feels like forever. Some we bought just before we graduated and some we bought soon after. I had one nice comfy blue…
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Maddie turns four next month, February 26th. I’m so excited about this age and how much she’s grown, and I’m looking forward to throwing her a princess party (per her request) on that weekend. With…
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); We’re living in the Information Age, a time when technology is becoming increasingly more important and a necessary part of life year after year. Our children are even being exposed to information and technology much…
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Every year, starting in 2014, I’ve come up with a two word phrase as the foundation for my goals for the year. The phrase sums up my ultimate goal; however, I break it down…
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I grew up in a home where we talked about Santa, took pictures with him at the mall, baked him cookies, you name it. Then every Christmas morning my mother would read about the…
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); As I sit on a plane headed from Memphis back to my home in Raleigh, I stared at this screen for a while; wondering where to begin with this post… In July I started traveling…
This post was originally published on December 24, 2012, and has been updated to share once more during the holiday season. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The family tradition I remember the most growing up was opening one small gift…