A Mother’s Poem
You are full of so much joy, laughter, and gummy smiles. But somehow my favorite moments are when I nurse you back to sleep in the middle of the night as you cling on to me.
Happy Holidays from Our Home to Yours and a 2020 Recap
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from our home to yours! We have been very fortunate to be able to finally move into our home in downtown Charleston just before Christmas, and have been working non-stop trying to get settled in by Christmas and before baby arrives in a quick month! Please accept our digital version of a Christmas card this year – y’all know how much I love sending out paper holiday cards but with the renovation, move, and prep for the holidays and creating a space for baby, they may be coming to you about a month late this […]
A Season of Anticipation
I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog lately because I feel like we’ve been in a long season of ‘in-between’, waiting to come out on the other side and we just… aren’t… there yet. I’ve started geting so anxious to feel some semblance of settled months after we made the big move from Stuttgart Germany to Charleston SC, yet have not quite felt it yet! We packed up our Stuttgart home back on July 15th, said auf Weidersehen to a wonderful city and friends, and sent all of our belongings on a ship to sail across the ocean to Charleston, where they currently reside […]
We’re Renovating Our Home!!! Before Pictures and Renovation Plans
I can FINALLY share with y’all that we are renovating our beloved historic Charleston Single house!!! EEEK!!! For the Last Twelve Months… Believe it or not, David and I have been planning this renovation for the past 12 months behind the scenes! We closed on our house last spring and that July, a full year ago, we flew back to Charleston for a week in-between tenants. We ‘glamped’ in our house on an air mattress, painted a few rooms, did some other minor touchups, and met with a ton of building trades to prep for a renovation in 2020. We […]
We’ve Moved…!
After an amazing five years in Stuttgart, Germany, David and I have moved back to Charleston, SC (surprise)! It was a part of our plan to stay for about five years in Stuttgart and then return to our beloved southern city. I had hinted about a lot of changes coming in 2020 back in this post, and after what felt like months and months of waiting around, covid shutting down most of our last trips, and covid stressing us out about being able to even move back, everything finally fell into place in June and then we essentially spent most […]
A Very Happy Quarantine Birthday at Home
Hey friends! Last weekend I turned 32 and had such a sweet day spending it at home with my husband. It landed on Memorial day this year, and while we had a fun outing with friends wine walking through our local vineyards on Sunday, I wasn’t really expecting much for my actual birthday. I mean, usually we celebrate it by spending a week in Mykonos – so the fact that we were “stuck at home” without availability to travel anywhere wasn’t getting me very excited. But, spending it at home this year with Dave really was so sweet! I told […]
Stuttgart in Bloom
Hello and happy weekend to you! How are you doing? I’ve been joking to Dave that my life feels like a movie or tv show where time passes and the person is sitting in one place (for me, the dining table that has become our makeshift work bench.. eek), as the sun rises and sets, rises and sets. Is it just me, or do the days (and months!) seem to be slipping by? How is it already the end of May! The only thing keeping the days feel like ‘Groundhog Day’ around here have been watching Stuttgart come into full […]
A Quarantine Date Night at Home: Dining al Fresco
I wanted to share the easiest and most fun date night, right in the comforts of your home! While we’re all quarantined at home for the foreseeable future, and while the sun shine is tempting us and the warm breeze floats by, I decided to have a little impromptu date night at home by dining al fresco! It was so simple and easy to implement, and we had so. much. fun. We originally wanted to walk to the Karlshöhe this evening, but also wanted to make a homemade pizza and I figured it would be too hard to transport a […]