Road Tripping Part 2

If you missed Road Tripping Part 1, click on the link to read about the start of vacation.  I don’t want to bore anyone to tears but at the same time, this is my blog and also kind of like a scrapbook of sorts, so if you don’t want to read about our vacation, I’m

Road Tripping Part 1

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Marriage Monday will be back soon! We are on vacation and I’m sure that will give us lots of great things to talk about for Marriage Mondays, so until then, here is a little taste of our vacation. Tonight I am sitting in a hotel room in the beautiful city of Charleston South Carolina.  We’ve

Hey y’all!  I’m down south in Nashville for a few days before heading to Haven!  Last night the waitress at the Waffle House said her son is “Fixin to be the three years old soon.”  I’m loving the southern drawls, the y’all and fixing.  Today we are off to sight see and have some fun!

The Kitchen Cabinets are Painted!

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After my Rustoleum Cabinet Transformations Failure, I needed to finish up the kitchen cabinets before we left on vacation.  Last night when we should have been going over the packing list and stuffing more goldfish into snack bags, we were instead putting cabinet drawer fronts and doors back on the frames in the kitchen.  For

Home goals mid-year check in & summer goals

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Back in January I blogged about our 2012 House Goals.    I’m not sure if I had too much to drink on New Years or if perhaps I was just feeling a bit ambitious but looking through the goals and seeing what I’ve accomplished so far this year, I’m not encouraged. Master Bedroom and Bathroom

Marriage Mondays: The Big “D”

Before we delve into the topic today, we want to mention two things.  First, our intent and our spirit today is not one of judging those who are divorced.  We are just sharing a bit of our hearts and what we’ve been through and what we believe about our society and divorce today.  This post

Painting the Kitchen Chairs

With only 12 days to go before we hit the road and tour some of the US of A, painting the bottom half of the kitchen cabinets seemed like a great idea to me.  Too bad my husband didn’t agree with me and most of my friends.  So I listened to reason for once and

Guest Post: Becky from Houzz!

When I received an email in my inbox the other week from Houzz talking about Guest Posting here at The Blooming Hydrangea I couldn’t hit reply fast enough.  Houzz is a great website full of inspiration where you can create your own ideabook and save images in the ideabook.  They also have great articles and

Marriage Monday: Get Away From It All

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No, your eyes are not playing a trick on you, it’s true, we are posting a Monday Marriage post!  Last time we talked about how it’s important to make time for you and your spouse with weekly or monthly (Hopefully) date nights.  Today we are going to take the idea even further and discuss overnight