Cucumber Salad

By | June 11, 2014

Cucumbers is one of my favorite and most underrated vegetables around. This Cucumber Salad is easy and delicious. It goes great with everything. It can whipped together in less than 5 minutes and requires no cooking time. Servings: 4 Prep Time: 5 minutes Cooking Time: 0 minutes

Lake Martin on Memorial Day 2014

By | June 6, 2014

The Friday before Memorial Day weekend, we loaded up the car, with the best camping gifts for a fun weekend of camping on the lake with the F@rrow Family. Among our essentials, we also brought along this Mini Katana for our camping adventure. Drew and his friend, Joe, who the 2nd eldest child of the… Read More »

Summer Bucket List

By | June 5, 2014

Now that we’re in our 2nd full week of summer, I thought I’d better go ahead and post my Summer Goal Bucket List

ALWB Self Interview #2

By | June 2, 2014

I am the Travel Tuesday Contributor over at ALWB. Nice to “meet” you! Let me know you stopped by and I will repay the visit. 🙂 1. Name & Birthday {Don’t have to include your year} Lysha (pronounced Lee-sha) September 30 2. How long have you been blogging? I’ve been blogging for 10 years. WOW!… Read More »

Life Lately #2…

By | May 30, 2014

Life lately is filled with… ~~ Fun at the lake last weekend with friends for Memorial Day. Post coming soon. ~~ Stress! This week has been so stressful. I can’t talk about the details of the stress, because I never know who might be reading this. 🙂 Needless to say, through all the stress of… Read More »

Memories of the Month {5.2014}

By | May 30, 2014

This month I was happy about: the school year winding down. This month I was sad about: empty promises. Something I accomplished this month was: just getting through the month was accomplishment enough.

Life Lately #1…

By | May 23, 2014

Today I’m starting a new series that I’d like to do each week called Life Lately. This will be just random tidbits about what is going on in life. There’s always things I’d like to share, but more times than not, it’s not enough to write an entire post on. I thought doing it this… Read More »

Family Date Night 2014

By | May 16, 2014

A few weeks ago, we left work early, checked the kids out of school, and drove up to Atlanta for a night at the Fox. After getting up to Atlanta, we parked and decided to walk around a bit before figuring out where we would eat dinner. We walked by this beautiful church, All Saints… Read More »

Travel Bucket List

By | May 13, 2014

Lately I have been feeling burned out. When I get in that mode, it means I probably need to take a break one way or another. If I can’t physically pick up and go on vacation, I sometimes just take a quick trip on the internet and let my vacation fantasies run free. The other… Read More »

Day Trip to Birmingham

By | May 9, 2014

Remember a few weeks ago, when I wrote about the Wednesday that Rob and I had a free day from work? Well, we ended up taking a day trip up to Birmingham, since Drew was going to be playing in a soccer game that afternoon. We headed up towards Birmingham and ended up stopping for… Read More »

Little Trip to the ER

By | May 2, 2014

“2 more songs.            I can make it.                       Come on.                             Hurry up!                                       I need to get outta here!”

Memories of the Month {4.2014}

By | May 1, 2014

This month I was happy about: getting to have some free evenings with nothing to do. This month I was sad about: drama going on with part of my family. Something I accomplished this month was: having to go to the ER. *sarcasm*

Fun at the Braves Game

By | April 25, 2014

A few weeks ago, we got given tickets to the Braves game. Our seats were behind homeplate in the players’ family section. Really good seats! Drew couldn’t go because he had a soccer game. Since we had six tickets we invited Rob’s Step Dad, David, his brother, Nick, and Alex brought a friend along. We… Read More »

The Writing’s On the Wall

By | April 22, 2014

Last Wednesday, I got up as normal, grabbed my phone, and headed down stairs to have my Bible time and eat my cereal before getting the kids up in 30 minutes. I noticed I had a text, so I opened it up to see a text from AU ALERT:

Cub Scout Field Trip

By | April 11, 2014

A few weeks ago we went to the 200th Anniversary of the Battle at Horseshoe Bend with Alex’s Cub scout den. We enjoyed hearing the stories as well as seeing the demonstrations. Demonstration of children’s toys Demonstration of how children would make yarn Demonstration of the militia Making of arrowheads This Native American is Seminole-Creek… Read More »

Memories of the Month {3.2014}

By | March 31, 2014

This month I was happy about: starting my new daytime hours. This month I was sad about: just still really missing me Dad. Something I accomplished this month was: getting used to working like normal people.

Liebster Award

By | March 25, 2014

A fellow ALWB blogger, Carol, has nominated me for The Liebster Award. Thanks so much, Carol! Now I get to answer the 11 questions, she asked. So here goes… 1. Are you a cat or dog person? I am a dog person, no doubt. I don’t mind cats except that they jump up on everything… Read More »

More thoughts…and pics of Dad

By | March 18, 2014

I received my Dad’s ashes a couple of weeks ago. I’m thankful to have them in my possession now. So I’ve started to casually look at the costs of going down to the Florida Keys, where he wanted to be spread. I am thankful to have one loose end taken care of and I hope… Read More »

Family Date Night

By | March 13, 2014

A few weeks ago, we left work early, checked the kids out of school, and drove up to Atlanta for a night at the Fox. After getting up to Atlanta, we parked and decided to walk around a bit before figuring out where we would eat dinner. We walked by this beautiful church, All Saints… Read More »