10 Life Lessons I Learned from My Southern Belle Grandmother

10 Life Lessons I Learned from My Southern Belle Grandmother

I’d be lying if I didn’t say this past week has been one of the hardest of my life. For the last 14 months my grandmother’s health has been an ever-present rollercoaster. Her deepest wish was to pass away at…

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5 Ways To Keep Your Marriage Strong

5 Ways To Keep Your Marriage Strong

Today is Hubby and I’s fourth wedding anniversary. Four years… just saying it’s been four years since I became a Mrs. is mind-blowing. The time has zoomed by. Hubby and I married young which we’ve discovered to be both a good and…

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Finland || 5 Days in Arctic Lapland

Finland || 5 Days in Arctic Lapland

Despite the fact that I’ve been traveling a lot this year (well, for me), most of it hasn’t been for pleasure. So when the Visit Finland invited me and a marvelous group of bloggers to Lapland in the Arctic Circle to follow…

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Remaining Ashore

Remaining Ashore

“The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.“ — Vincent Van Gogh

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Obsessing Over… My Engagement Ring

Obsessing Over… My Engagement Ring

I remember it like it was yesterday… Friday, March 16th, 2012. The day Hubby asked me to marry him. It was one of the best days of our lives (and not only because the weather that day was INCREDIBLE!). It…

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