Sing out loud!!!!

What would we do without our girls???

Ya know those friends that are there even when you don't know you need them?

The ones that sing back your song when you have forgotten the words......

These are special people.  They may be family, your sister,your mother, your cousin.  Or they maybe a friend you met when you were six and you have always kept in touch.  Or maybe they are a few great gals that you only met this year. 

You share with them, you laugh with them and you hold each other up.  Friends like this are a gift. 

 Since moving here to Richmond I have found some sweet sweet sugar sisters.  They are an amazing gift...I have a tendency to be very very silly and they still keep coming back. 

 I rarely miss a chance to wear glitter and sparkles and I mean to Kroger and they still go out with me....love my girls.  

So here is a shout out to my Sugar Sisters..Lenina, Kimmy and Becky!  

Cant wait for the adventures we have ahead.

Smooches!

The Big Marshmallow!!

Ok...Summer time is here for some of you and will be here Friday for us.  I am sooo excited to have all four of my precious people under my roof.  The days when we home schooled were so special because I was the one to see all the progress and celebrate all the little moments with my monkeys.  When we decided to put them into public school last year, that was what I missed most, and the house was tooooo toooo quiet.

Home schooling Gracie.

William loved to use shaving cream for his handwriting.

Nicholas took a lot of brakes.

As I am looking up camp schedules and planning our vaca and getting a bit stressed  I am reminded or a great story......


A dear family we know always plan huge camping vacations.  Not just pitch a tent and hang out type trips...Noooo, they go all out.  Backpacking carry all their food , hard core stuff.  Well to say it takes planning is an understatement and very stressful......my girl was frantic.  Just when it all hit the fan her youngest one said to her "Mom, hey! just make sure you get the big marshmallows."






That was it!  We all get so worked up over planning for our families and wanting things to be just right, that we forget about the BIG MARSHMALLOW!

 It is the little blessing that our kids are going to cherish and take with them in life.  Yes, the trips and the camping and the parties are all great, but that stuff is on us.  We are the ones driving that train, and we are the ones who can get off at the next stop.


So, relax...enjoy your families and pick up some Big Marshmallow this summer.
Blessings!

Let them write on the furniture!!

I love chalkboard paint.
No...I am obsessed with chalkboard paint.
Maybe it came from years of homeschooling and covering old tables with it to make math more fun.  Or maybe because I like to write on walls.  Who knows but the love affair continues.


This is a pine tv hutch that my in-laws had made back in the early 80's........

 It has gifted to us when we lived in our first apartment in Atlanta, GA........

This girl is HEAVY!!!!  Solid and beautiful.

She has been in every room you can think of.....

Finally after this move to Richmond VA we didn't have a place for her anymore and considered donating her....but no one is using entertainment cabinets anymore...we all have flat screens...ya know?

I just couldn't let her go......and my chicken, that I had just painted needed a home.

So we chalk boarded her!!!!  The ENTIER thing!!!

Hubby thought I was NUTTTZZZOOOO!

My kids and their friends love it and it gives the kitchen an element of surprise... its a great place for a love note....


So if you have an entertainment cabinet or some other huge piece of furniture that just isn't working anymore...make it fun...hit it with some chalkboard paint and let the kids write on some furniture......