On October 26th this journey began. It all started as a combination of an anaphylactic reaction to an iron infusion and being given too much iron causing iron toxicity. I was kept at Cabell Huntington Hospital for 44 hours in observation, they were solely focused on the anaphy…
We started a new tradition once our kids were grown and started having children of their own. Every year we celebrate our Christmas morning the weekend before December 25th. Everyone arrives Friday evening and stays overnight here at our home. Eventually, when the littles are ol…
This song, Hold On to Me by Lauren Daigle, I have listened to it almost on repeat since everything that happened at the end of October. The doctor at Duke wanted to schedule me for the 12th of December but I knew I just wanted to get through and enjoy the Christmas season first.…
Written November 5th "Tell your worry to be quiet so your heart can hear the song, 'cause it's always been around you, it's been singing all along. All the moments to be savored and the memories to be made, all the wonder to be witnessed that you might miss if…
Written November 3rd, just a few days after returning home from the hospital. This morning I watched the sun peek into our room as it was coming up, I would have happily traded it for a little sleep. For those wondering what has been going on and how we are doing, this is a lit…
Thanksgiving Day, is a day filled with family and friends. The smell of a roasting turkey in the oven filled with our family's traditional stuffing, kids peeking at the dessert table and watching the Macy's Day Parade, running circles around the house with cousins, la…
Tonight I am in the studio pouring the last candle to our Joyeux Noel collection. Christmas music has been playing and the weather has been cold lately. Yesterday we had our first dusting of snow which was a reminder Christmas is just around the corner. Tomorrow I begin packagi…
We love taking a look back at the moments of the past year. We started off 2019 with big plans to accomplish and complete a lot of projects that year. January 2, 2019 We began the demo on the upstairs bathroom. Our girls had been begging to do their bathroom and promised lots of…
I had always hoped there would be original siding underneath the aluminum siding that was put on the house in the 60's. It wasn't until we started the kitchen renovation that we had our answer of what was underneath the old faded aluminum siding. When we replaced the ki…
One year and twenty one weeks. That is how long we have been in our old 1921 farmhouse. We have started many projects, some of them completed, but a lot of them still in progress. I had planned to keep up with this blog when we moved to journal our move and restoration of this 1…
The listing picture for our 1921 home. For sixteen years we have lived on a little country road with a good piece of land and happily raised our babies. Both of our families live here in WV and we've made this little town our hometown over these past sixteen years. We always…
