New Year’s Day and Highlands Recap

We kicked off the new year with the traditional dinner of hoppin’ John and collard greens. Although my family is not a huge fan of greens, we all manage to eat some each January 1st, along with the black eyed peas and pork in hoppin’ John, for health, wealth and luck. We paired it with […]

Grandad’s Apple Orchard

On a whim the kids and I headed to Grandad’s Apples N’ Such in Hendersonville, NC, Sunday morning.  Hendersonville is less than an hour from Greenville and such a wonderful, easy day trip.  Or even half day trip.  A friend suggested Grandad’s after I mentioned how crowded our usual apple picking place gets on the […]

Long Weekend Recap

Good morning!  I am still enjoying the slow pace of January and tackling a few little (and I do mean “little”) projects that I tend to neglect throughout the year.  It feels so good to check things off my list.  First up, I washed all of my makeup brushes and ran all of my vanity […]