Fall Events in NWA! Hope you get to enjoy one of these events with your friends or family! 🍁🎃

It’s National Chocolate Day, a great day to celebrate chocolate with a super easy marbled cookie bark recipe! Serve as an after school treat today, add to a charcuterie board for Halloween evening, or make double and share with neighbors or teachers. Spread the love!

I get to keep the house dark and romantic (to me), burn alllll the candles I like, and all my big kids come home to keep a fire pit burning out front in the circle drive with their friends and hand out (and eat) candy.

Ahh..care packages! Those sweet little gifts from home that kids love to get (and we love to send!) that show them we care. Here are some things my kids love to get (and I love to gift!)

I see the big kids less and less (they just go out and get their own lives..what are they thinking?), so I know how fast it will go. I’m looking back over Facebook memories, and I’m a little sentimental today. I am praying to remember each and every little moment as important. Even the ones I’ve yet to experience. Here’s to the end of summer and intentional time with each of them this year.

I am so thankful that the thing I feared was not the end of my girl. We know it is most dangerous for those with heart and lung problems . . and diabetes.

When I budget funds for babysitting and date night expenses, when I allot the time and put a date on the calendar, and when I work to find babysitters who love to play with my kids (and my kids can’t wait to hang out with!), it demonstrates to my husband and family that I believe my marriage is alive and valuable.