Welcome back to Share Four Somethings, a monthly linkup I participate in with my friend Heather Gerwing at Living the Full Life. My girls and I are in beautiful Michigan this week, enjoying a respite from the hot and humid Memphis summer. We’ve even had to pull out sweatshirts on a couple of evenings! It’s…
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines,…
Last autumn, I embarked on an experiment in what’s commonly termed “hair training.” Essentially, hair training is the process of backing off on washing your hair until you can go several days without doing so, yet your hair doesn’t appear dirty or oily. The science behind this is pretty simple: when you wash your hair,…
From the time they were little more than infants, both of my daughters adopted security blankets which went with them everywhere, from bed to the grocery store to Chick-fil-A. My oldest girl’s attempts to say “blankie” came out more like “blank-on-nee,” which eventually evolved into “Connie,” thereby ensuring that in our home, all blankets would…