{a new gallery wall that I will show you how to design in a post next week} Happy Friday! Today, I want to share a story about nine young basketball players and their coaches. We live in a small town in Connecticut and unlike the other much larger towns that surround us, our population pales in…

{the outlier} I came down with the balloons. It took awhile for me to snap back to reality after Catherine’s 4th Birthday Party last Saturday. I was walking through our home a couple of days later collecting pink and purple balloons that had slowly drifted to the ground. There was one outlier. It floated in mid air in our stairwell,…

I’m lagging with timely updates on my Birchbox Beauty updates if I am sharing the January Birchbox in February. I was tempted to skip this one entirely because I have yet to review the Birchbox that I received in February, but there were a few great items in January’s box that I wanted to share….

{a heart shaped donut from a friend} Happy Friday! I’m especially excited because my two wonderful children are home with me today. In Connecticut, President Lincoln’s Birthday is a legal holiday and we’re taking full advantage of a “no school day” to hang out with friends in the morning and grab some lunch later. Even better, they have…