This Christmas sort of snuck up on me. The past three months have brought a lot of change and frenzy into our lives and that hasn’t been simplified by the holiday season. I love buying presents for people, taking care to think of what they’ll love and use, not content to buy people obligatory junk…
happy holidays
Pear Tree Greetings Holiday Card Sale!
Happy Black Friday! Now that the turkeys have been stuffed, carved, devoured, and thoroughly respected, the holiday season is OFFICIALLY upon us. It’s time to talk holiday cards, like my favorites from Pear Tree Greetings. This will mark my fourth year in a row sending seasonal cheer with one of Pear Tree Greetings’ original designs,…
Macy’s Pink Pig
In keeping with the recent theme of finding the cool things to do here and then doing them, this weekend we ventured into town to check out an Atlanta holiday staple. The Macy’s Pink Pig tradition started in 1953 when Macy’s was still Rich’s. (Remember them?) As people moved out of the city, department stores…
Blogcation
Hi! Hope y’all don’t mind that I took the weekend to have a little Blogcation. I mean, I figure if there’s ever a time for me to take a blogcation is a long weekend where people are more interested in blowing things up and celebrating our freedom than, say, some random other time. (Though, if…
This one’s for you. And you, too.
Mother’s Day is always difficult for me to write about here* because I know the pain of those mothers who’ve wanted, wished, waited, hoped, and prayed for babies in their wombs. My PCOS diagnosis came about two weeks before Mother’s Day in 2008. That Mother’s Day was shocking to me. The thought that this might…