North Carolina

Bald Head Island Mini Staycation {Part One}

November 8, 2014

How do you spend quality time with your kids and spouse in between three-week long jaunts to the West Coast? Why, you take them on a mini staycation of course. Some place nearby, remote and filled with charm. A place you can only get to by ferry! At least that was Surferboys brilliant plan for […]

Date Night On The Riverfront – Elijah’s

August 10, 2013

Have I told y’all how much I love our area lately? No. Well I do and not just a little either. On one hand we have the beach and on the other the Cape Fear River running alongside historic downtown Wilmington. Ironically downtown is where you would find me, more sometimes than at the beach […]

She Smiles Blue {Beach Days}

May 15, 2013

Some days my lady is grey, harboring swirling emotions covering the world in her misty blanket. Other days she smiles bright blue, her children coming out to play, dancing under the sun and singing with glee. Harassing far off fishing boats for a morsel or two. On days like this, you just want to turn your […]

In the Moment ~ {Beach Days}

May 1, 2013

“Happiness is not another place, but this place…not for another hour; but this hour.” Walt Whitman

My Grey Lady {Ocean}

February 13, 2013

The ocean with her myriad array of moods always leaves me spell bound but if I had to pick which of her moods I am drawn to the most it would be that of my grey lady.

Put me in coach!

October 21, 2010

Y’all might have guessed already but we went on an excursion this past weekend. A quick trip up the coast to the Outer Banks so that DS could meet some groms and do a little coaching. As with any trip short or long, I’m playing catch-up this week. In the mean time I thought that you guys might get a kick out […]

Earl is knocking…party time.

September 1, 2010

Do you see that big ole’ orange swirl? That would be Earl. Danielle has left and now Earl is knocking at the door. If you look on the map we live in the vicinity of Wilmington and since we have people who care about us calling, tweeting & emailing I thought that I would give […]