If you've been here before, you know we love Piper's school, so when fundraising season rolls around, my husband and I are delighted to help her collect donations to contribute to the school's Annual Fund. In the past, soliciting financial support has felt uncomfortable, unnatural and a little ick. I'm fairly certain that my anxiety [...]
It's 32 degrees today in Columbia and the weather turbulence is giving us all some SERIOUS whiplash. For reference, two weeks ago I power washed the driveway in a tank top and got so sunburnt, I'm still peeling. When we moved to South Carolina 10 years ago, my Florida-born and raised husband said, "I love [...]
Confession: I've spent a good bit of my adult life thinking sugar cookie artists are nuts for charging $3+ a cookie, but after a deplorable baking episode this week, I have newfound respect and unadulterated adoration for their inimitable talent and desperately knead to issue a baker's dozen of apologies. Seriously. We are not worthy. [...]
We clean up a lot of spills in our house. And when I say "we," I mean me. I'm the spill cleaner-upper. If spilling was an Olympic sport, both my children would take the gold, year after year. There would be no competition. They're both winners. They're the spill king and queen. They spill in [...]
Oh my word! Adele Cabanillas has done it again with her magical, bright and creative photography - capturing my tiny family in our little brick house in the most delightful way. My heart can hardly stand it. Funny (but mostly humbling and horribly embarrassing) story... while I was feverishly cleaning our home like a madwoman to [...]
That's how my Samsung Galaxy phone auto-corrected my 'crock-pot' text to my mom - so that's what we're calling it. Good job, Galaxy. It's day three of Hurricane Joaquin and his dismal rain-dump here in South Carolina. I complain occasionally about living 12 miles from downtown Columbia - and having to drive 'into town' to [...]
Adrianne Buckley 