Hi, my name is Melissa and I make hair bows for a living! I started making them in 2002 when my now-twelve-year-old was a baby, because I wanted one to match every outfit and I figured I was crafty enough to make them. I was working at the BEST little childrens’ clothing store at the time (still work there, actually…), and so just for fun, I stuck a few of…
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{Baby Love} A Year Ago Today…
…Baby Susannah Joy came into the world and made our family complete. It’s been the best year of my life (despite the sleep deprivation). Being a family of five, a mom of three girls, the wife of the most incredible guy in the world, being parents with him and watching him be a dad to a wee one, watching my girls be big sisters to her… My heart is overflowing….
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An Update and an Answer to Prayer for Baby Susie.
It’s been six weeks since Susie had two seizures back to back. After a trip in the ambulance to the ER after the first seizure where she had a CAT scan and a series of labs run, we followed up with her pediatrician and even more labs to test for metabolic or genetic disorders. Praise the Lord, all of her labs came back perfectly normal. PERFECTLY, in the middle of…
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{Baby Love} Eleven Months.
Our sweet Susannah Joy was ELEVEN MONTHS old yesterday. Our sweet blue-eyed baby. Or are they brown? Green? Hazel? I think they change every day… She’s becoming a little PERSON. With a PERSONALITY. This is one cute new thing she does… when she’s sleepy, she gathers up the front of her clothes into her fist and pulls it up to her nose like a ‘blanky’ while she sucks her thumb….
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Trim Healthy Almond Joy Bites and a Coconut Oil Giveaway.
There is not ONE THING about this recipe that isn’t my FAVORITE. I love coconut. I love chocolate. I love almonds, and most of all, I love coconut oil. Combine them all into one delicious bite? Well, you can’t POSSIBLY top that. For years, not only have I used coconut oil in every possible recipe, I’ve made my own coconut oil lotion (recipe to follow at some point), and my…
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Marcy-Made Headband Giveaway!
I finally acquired my very first Marcy-Made headband. If you’re not familiar with Marcy-Made headbands, you should be! My friend Marcy makes THE CUTEST headbands! See? New for fall… ‘Carnival Ride!’ I’ve been following her on Facebook and been drooling over her cute headbands for a while now. And what with the half-dozen or so little girls in this house, and abundance of hair accessories everywhere, you’d think we of all…
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Forty-Eight Years.
Bourbon Street, 1965 Happy anniversary, mom and dad.
A Tour of the Old Blue House, After.
The other day I posted some BEFORE pictures of my last house. If you didn’t see those, never fear, because I’m about to post them again.Because you REALLY can’t appreciate the ‘AFTER’ until you’ve seen the ‘BEFORE.’Keep in mind, though, that because I’m a serial repainter, some of these rooms were repainted AGAIN, much to the chagrin of anyone who lived with me, so these aren’t really ‘after’ pictures; more…
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A Tour of The Old Blue House, Before.
Back in 2006 I started this blog with the purpose of showing before and after pictures of this little renovation project we were working on… an old blue house built in 1928 (or 9? I can’t remember now). It was a total mess. Mess being the understatement of the century. A few days ago, the new owner of the house found me on Facebook via this blog, and it’s been…
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Baby Susie’s Oatmeal Banana Bites.
A quick update on Baby Susie: for those of you missed this post, she had two very scary seizures last week, but praise the Lord, NO seizures since last Thursday. We’re still waiting for her lab results to come back to rule out a metabolic or genetic disorder. THANK YOU for the continued prayers! Susie is REALLY into food these days. For a fourteen-pounder who is smaller than 95% of…
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Annie’s List.
I was doing some cleaning this morning and came across Annie’s list of what you should do: Love each other. Be nice to your friends and your family. Treat each other like you would like to be treated. And that pretty much sums it up. Wouldn’t the world be a better place I’d we all lived like this?
This Ain’t My First {Remodeling} Rodeo.
My in-laws came by to see Susie and me today, and asked me, “Are you still liking your house?” I had to think before I answered that. I’m grateful for this house, really I am. But I’ll be honest… it’s overwhelming living in a house where every single inch of it needs work. And sometimes, just flat depressing, because you can see the potential of all this house could be……
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