Hi friends, happy Friday! This is another open thread, so if you want to ignore the conversation starter and talk about something in your life, that’s fine, too. This past week, Mr. Donovan and I had Mr. Donovan’s brother, our sister-in-law, and our niece who’s in 2nd grade come to stay with us for a few days. We love them
Category: Semi-Charmed Life
Hey friends, happy Friday! This is an open thread, so if you just want to chat about how things are going this week or comment on what other people say, that’s great. And I thought I’d ask a fun question on Friday and see what kind of answers I get. Some of you know I love to make music playlists.
Last week, Mr. Donovan and I were on a shuttle at the Kansas City airport, heading back to the parking lot where we had left our car after an amazing vacation. Soon after we sat down, the man sitting across from us on the bus began yelling that the driver had skipped his terminal. The driver apologized and said he
Last Sunday, Mr. Donovan and I got back from spending a week in Reykjavik and touring other parts of Iceland. We were celebrating a milestone anniversary! If you’re a regular reader of my blog (thank you if you are, you are wonderful!), you know that I haven’t traveled a ton in my life, I very much want to travel more,
Tomorrow Mr. Donovan and I are celebrating a milestone anniversary. Last year on our anniversary, I shared one of those “secrets to a happy marriage” posts. This year, I’ve been thinking a lot about how, according to most articles I read, we got married wrong. Here’s some of the advice I’ve seen… Date for a long time before you get
When I was a kid, I always thought it was too bad that August didn’t have any holidays in it. One of the reasons I chose the month of August to get married was that I wanted to give the month a little extra sparkle. Back then, I’d never heard of an ancient Gaelic festival called Lughnasadh. Although almost no
You probably heard about this last week: a Dani Mathers, a Playboy model, was at a public gym. She posted a public picture on Snapchat of a naked woman she did not know in the locker room, along with a picture of herself laughing. She captioned it, “If I can’t unsee this you can’t either.” This would have been reprehensible