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In That Carnival

I haven’t been on a ferris wheel in almost 12 years, and really don’t plan to ever again, but I almost had a moment of weakness and gave in a couple of weekends ago when E.B. begged to get on. I mean, look at the beautiful colors.  The blue View Post

Royal Wedding 2011 Recap

While the general public who could have cared less is probably glad the hoopla surrounding the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton is finally winding down, I still can’t get enough of the spectacular display of pomp and circumstance View Post

Tornado Weather-Southern Storms

It’s been a scary few days in the Mississippi Delta.  We’ve fared much, much better than our neighbors in Arkansas, Northwest Mississippi and the Memphis area, but it has been really alarming hearing the tornado sirens go off in our town a few View Post

Flies Through The Air With The Greatest of Ease

You know your kid is growing up when he proclaims all of the kiddie rides at the fair as “lame” and prefers to do this instead. View Post

Easter Reflections

Especially today, I’m appreciating the ultimate sacrifice that was made to take away MY sins.  Especially today, I am thankful that I can worship my Savior with my family in the church that I grew up in.   Praise be to the God and View Post

Cupcake Coma

We have a new sweets shop in town (appropriately) called The Sweetery.  My cousin Jessica and I had never had a cupcake from there, but drooled about the flavors of the day we would read about on Facebook.  I’m glad to report we remedied View Post

Here Comes The Sun

So, yeah. That's been the view outside pretty much all week it seems. Hardly conducive to the fair that's in town, the baseball games we were scheduled to play, and just about everyone's mood in general. I've passed most of my time this week View Post

Pressed Flowers

As a little girl, I often passed the time during the weekly church sermon by drawing pictures on the church bulletins (and even my own Bible!! *gasp*), crawling under the pews, sleeping, or flipping through my mother’s Bible.  I remember my mom View Post

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