Ya'll...I want it to be fall so bad! Unfortunately, it is still over 100 degrees outside. We are literally melting over here. Better set out those fall candles so it can at least smell like fall! According to my house, we have officially entered fall. There are pumpkins on the mantel, warm colors are making their way back into the rooms, and I'm fully prepared for cozy evenings. According to the thermometer? Absolutely not. But I've decided I don't need Mother Nature's permission to start entering fall. Let's face it, if I waited for actual sweater weather around here, I might be decorating for Christmas before I ever got to wear one! So, the pumpkins are coming out anyway! I've been adding rusts, oranges, browns, and deeper greens. A few pumpkins here, some fall leaves there, and a cozy throw tossed on the couch. Now am I actually using that throw? No. It is 100 degrees. That thing is strictly decorative at this point. But I am enjoying looking at it! And t...
Apparently, I have been out of high school for 30 years. I don't really know who approved this, but I have questions. Because 1996 doesn't not feel like it was thirty years ago. Twenty? Maybe. Fifteen if we're being generous. But thirty? Absolutely not. And yet, here we are. The Class of 1996 has officially reached that point where we can say things like, "Back when I was in high school..." and actually be talking about three decades ago. That's slightly disturbing. We really did grow up in a differen...