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Our third grader soccer playing basketballin’ tiny little honey butter biscuit is NINE YEARS OLD!!! Still making Tourette syndrome look good. Still reading books around the clock. Still telling me I am your favorite person in the world. Still telling me that there’s nothing you love more on the weekends than to cuddle together. You … More Polkadot Sweater & Red Heels Project | Elle Marie 9 Years!
When the baby of the house is undeniably NOT a baby anymore, it’s tough. This past month I’ve been struggling when I look back at pictures from even just a few years before… all of the girls have changed so much, but especially this one. Autumn – we never, EVER stop laughing when you’re around. … More Teal Heels & Gold Sweater Project | 7 Years | Autumn Jean
When I was a new mom, I had the baby blues. Then, it developed into postpartum anxiety. A part of me feels like most moms probably have postpartum anxiety to some extent, but with our first daughter… mine was pretty bad. I was anxious upon anxious upon anxious about every little thing already, but something … More The Advice That Made Me Panic | Life By The Sea
I’m looking at the clock on my Macbook… we leave for school in 8 minutes. Actually.. it JUST became 7 as I typed that. And I don’t remember mornings every going this smoothly as a kid or even years ago in our own household, but I am calm enough to sit & type a blog … More We Leave For School in 8 Minutes | Life By The Sea
I’m going to be honest, I can’t come from a place of protecting readers by softening what this past year has looked like as the mom of an awesome little girl with Tourette syndrome. If it’s not honest, it won’t help anyone. It will only make those going through a hard time with this … More Taking Up Less Space | Eating Disorder Relapse
TODAY we launched a course put together by our family with all of our hearts called CLUTTER-FREE GAME PLAN 🙂 We know that life is just easier with less STUFF. For years, Mike and I were on a trajectory of more, bigger, better, fancier… we thought that was it. We thought that’s the way to move … More Our Kid’s Room Clutter-Free HACK | Clutter Free
Before we show our new home in an upcoming blog post, we wanted to share WHY we seem to be going backwards compared to the masses. It would seem, for most, you have more kids.. you get a bigger house. More rooms, more bathrooms. More SPACE. Some people are completely adamant on their kids having … More Why We Went SMALL, Instead Of BIGGER | Life By The Sea
Last week on Instagram, we announced something we had been holding on to for weeks, but we had been hoping for far longer. We let our community know we were moving an hour plus south to live on Hatteras Island, which is truly a dream for our family! We have been head over heels in love with … More We’re Moving to HATTERAS! | Life By The Sea
I have been prepping for back to school since….July, LOL! I REALLY like to get ahead of things so I don’t feel stressed or crammed, but we are also major homebodies and we don’t go out and do tons of summer things so we understand that these next couple of weeks before school starts may … More FIVE Ways To Get Ready For Back To School Last Minute! | Life By The Sea
This world is a very broken place right now. I’m sure it always has been, but the news and social media bring the broken right to our attention front and center daily and it’s hard to see what kind of acts of violence or tragedy have happened since the last one 10 minutes prior and … More Gladiators Sharing Joy | Life By The Sea
I know people who would shudder at this blog title, HA! But they are also the night owls who outdo me in staying up late. What do you MEAN you were up until 11pm!?!? LOL! I can’t even. I used to be a night owl and after Cammy started elementary school – we had to … More Up at 4:30 A.M. | Salt Air Entrepreneur
**WARNING, some images are slightly graphic and may be upsetting** One year later (tomorrow) was the scariest night of our lives. Traveling down a small two lane country road in the rain in Rolesville, NC…a red car was FLYING from the left. I only had a second to tell Mike that it wasn’t stopping before … More Celebrating That We LIVED | Accident Anniversary