I love to get up early. Before the noise of the day begins – when the sun is just starting to peek through the trees, when the house is quiet and still. The smell of coffee wafts through the house as the pot kicks off from when I set it the night before. It’s my…
I love fall. I do. I love everything about it. Crisp, cooler weather. Leaves in vibrant oranges and yellows. Football. Soups and chilis with warm, cozy flavors. Sweaters and hoodies. And pumpkins. All the pumpkins. The first fall after we got married, when I pulled out the boxes of fall decorations, my husband’s response was,…
Last weekend, I took a field trip. I went to a little produce stand to check out the goods. For the last several years, I’ve been on the hunt for a local farmstand where I can get yummy things like big, juicy summer tomatoes, sweet silver queen corn and crisp, crunchy cucumbers that were in…
It’s summertime, which means that it is the perfect time of year to eat ice cream! In fact, we christened this season just last Saturday evening with an impromptu trip to our local Bruster’s where I unapologetically ate this… A waffle cone with a scoop of banana nut bread and a scoop of chocolate peanut…
Spring is one of my favorite times of year in the South. We have a few weeks of blissfully warm temperatures, dry air and sunshine before the humidity and heat settles in. This is when Mother Nature really shows off with blooming dogwoods, azaleas, camelias and green leaves overnight. It’s also my favorite time of…
This weekend was a BIG game for my Georgia Bulldogs…we played #1 ranked Tennessee at home with high stakes for the College Football Playoff rankings to come. (Spoiler alert: Dawgs WIN!) We had 16 people over (all Dawgs fans of course) to watch the game and enjoy a Saturday evening of football, food and a…