Y'all know I'm a big fan of meal planning, but this month when I sat down to make our meal plan I hit one of those, "What do we eat? Do I even cook?!!", walls. So, I sat down and made a list of all of our favorite meals, then pulled out some of my trusty cookbooks. While I was fli…

For Christmas this year, J and I decided that instead of buying each other gifts, we would go on a few weekend trips this upcoming year. Since we were already in Dallas for Christmas, we decided that San Antonio would be one of our trips. Though we only had 24 hours there, we packed quite a bit int…

When J and I dream of houses, it usually involves a lime washed exterior with a large front porch, or even a wrap around porch. I love white brick, and the weathered feel lime wash gives it.  When we moved into our house last year I knew I wanted to lime wash the fireplace. I'm not…

I had a plan this year. I wanted to get all of Thanksgiving dinner on the table no more than 30  minutes after people started arriving. With our family, you can say, "meet at 1:30", and people will be there at 1. So, my goal was to get everything on the table by 1:30 and have an appetizer…