What. A. Month. If I had known beforehand what October 2024 was going to be like for me, I would have probably crawled into a hole to hide away. I still feel like that’s a choice, but I have too many people counting on me to actually try to “get away.” Blogtober was a fun escape for a while, but life caught up with me…

My first ever monthly challenge was in 2011. It was called Blogtober, obviously, and I had to post every day for thirty days. My posts were not always written ones. In fact, most of them were photographs. It was a different time then. I used to post random images and YouTube videos frequently with little to no explana…

If you need to brush up on your Spanish, the title of this blog post is “The She Wolf is Postponed.” Erica called me last Friday evening to tell me that Shakira was postponing her North American tour until May of 2025. The countdown was only a couple of weeks away from our big show and now the wait is on yet again. Ap…

Once upon a time, I tried to keep a vlog. It wasn't meant to be for me and my family, but I did get several up when Zeke was just a baby. Today's vlog was filmed during one of our pumpkin patch trips with him! Watching them makes me wish I could go back and hold my boy in my arms again; he's already toweri…

I spent last evening going through thousands of photos from the last two decades of my life. Each season is such a blessing, even if it doesn't feel like it while you're in the thick of it. I know for certain I will look back fondly on this Autumn months from now, even though it's been one of the most stre…

If there’s one thing I’m sure of, it’s that a good plan doesn’t always equal success. On the other hand, no plan at all always leads to zero growth. Some of my best made plans didn’t fall into place as I hoped they would, but I’m proud of myself for putting in the time and effort to try no matter how big or small the …

You guessed it! Today's post is all about my favorite pumpkin recipes of the season. I’m sharing one of my most loved and kid approved pumpkin bread recipes, my momma’s pumpkin french toast, and a new recipe for soft and pumpkin spicy cookies with cream cheese icing from scratch. Watch me make my favorite pumpkin …

In today's Countdown to Shakira post, I will be ranking her top studio albums, plus some live compilations and a few honorable mentions. I've been a Shakira fan since 2001, so you can trust that I know her music. It all started when I caught the end of the Whenever, Wherever music video one day while my sister…

I have few memories of autumn from my childhood that I replay often in my head. The first, is my Papaw Ova's ghost hanging from a tree in his front yard. It would make a ghostly sound when someone walked by it. I was dressed as Ariel from the Little Mermaid that year, but my Mom let me carry a silver wand, too, be…

I took a hiatus from everything pumpkin spice for a few years, but my craving for it seems near insatiable this year. Before, I was more of a salted caramel kind of girl. I still am, although I'm appreciating all things pumpkin once again and it is not disappointing! Certain things are only the *best* in autumn (l…

We're nearly halfway through October and it still doesn't feel like Autumn yet. There have been a few odd days that felt like sweater weather, but I'm so excited for it to stay 60 degrees and below! Until then, I'll just have to make my own autumn ambience. This has been the first week in a while that …