#AD: Attention All Environmentally Friendly Parents

September 22, 2021.Reading time 5 minutes.

As a parent, we want the best for our children, but what about the world we’re leaving them? When it comes to babies, items come in abundance and have a short life span. Think about the number of diapers you will go through, clothing, toys, etc. in just the first few years. This abundance of […]

Twelve years already

April 15, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

Apparently I’ve been at this same blog, same name, with varying formats for twelve years. A lot has happened in my life during that time. My relationship with my now-husband was only a few months old when this blog started after I ditched my LiveJournal I had owned for about 8 years. Wow. I have […]

National Fairy Tale Day and The Tooth Brigade giveaway

February 27, 2020.Reading time 5 minutes.

Fairy tales are a special style of writing, and a refreshed look at some familiar fairy tale friends made this book incredibly unique and special for our little girl. The Azula’s story and one of their stuffed friends, Ollie, helped shift Margaret’s perspective on the dentist, teeth, and honestly mouth health in general! Since she […]

Week 1 at Bellair Farm CSA and a Memorial Day weekend reminder

May 24, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

#WorthyStyle fact: Did you know I grew up on a farm? From my Dad’s college years until 2000, my family raised us on Maple Downs Farm in Rockbridge County, Virginia, just outside of Lexington. At around 400 acres, it was paradise for a free-roaming exploring child! Now that #BabyMCVA is mobile and an enthusiastic and […]

Nick of Time

October 23, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

My Grandmama and Grandpapa purchased a home in the newly developed Corolla Light resort community in Currituck County, NC on the Outer Banks in the late 1980s. I would say 1988, due to the founding of the community and the actual paving of NC 12 being pretty new when the Resort broke ground. The sights […]

Hello from WordPress

July 6, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

This post contains affiliate links. Hey all! I hope everyone enjoyed their 4th of July holiday. Yesterday the 5th was M’s birthday, so we went to the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (“VMFA”) to see their Napoleon exhibition and then briefly stopped in Carytown so I could get a couple of his last minute gifts […]

Baby Margaret – Nine Months Update

June 25, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

This post contains affiliate links. 9 months old Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, our sweet little nugget of a firstborn turned 9 months old! When we took her in to the pediatrician, we were actually headed to my parents for the Christmas holiday. I was a little crestfallen by her stats, but the Pediatrician was great […]

Baby Margaret – Eight Month Update

June 24, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

Margaret at eight months, taken on November 22, 2017 This post contains affiliate links We started the month by celebrating Halloween with our sweet little girl, her first outside the womb, and since she is too small for trick-or-treating we had fun dolling her up in this sweet Halloween outfit: Her outfit was from Toys […]

Baby Margaret – Seven Month Update

May 26, 2018.Reading time 13 minutes.

This post contains affiliate links. I feel like she is just so joyful and ready to leap off the page here! All legs still, sweet girl. Laying on a Aden + Anais muslin swaddle blanket (similar here and here). With Fall in full swing, we had a busy agenda for several weeks as we approached […]

Baby Margaret – Six Month Update

May 24, 2018.Reading time 14 minutes.

This post contains affiliate links. By the time our sweet baby girl turned six months old, we had the travel-and-outings-with-baby routine down. During that sixth month we did our first long vacation with my family… Similar swimsuit here and here. …to the Outer Banks which you all know is almost a second […]