Have a Restful Friday Night

Hi friends, happy Friday night.

How was your week? We had to go to South Georgia at the last minute for a few days for a personal reason that I’ll share next week, but it feels so good to be back home. We saw our family, which was so beautiful and wonderful and I cherished our nights with them, especially since all of my siblings were together, but I am exhausted and so grateful to be back in our home.

We went to the farm this morning and I took the above photo of the mountain and pasture. It’s all green again! I breathed in the cool, calm Tennessee air and I felt a sense of peace wash over me. Our happy place. Our safe haven. Needing it more than ever.

We hope you have a lovely weekend, loves. xoxo

Have a Magical Friday Night

Happy Friday lovers!! What are you up to this weekend? We’re in cleaning and organizing mode here at home. I want to take every piece of clothing in our closet and pack it up and donate it. We both just want to start over and drastically reduce our number of clothing items. Not only are we already lacking on closet space, we have virtually no sort of system set up whatsoever for organizing it.

The kids are going to a soccer game tomorrow with their aunt, so maybe we’ll do a little date night out in town. With temps in the 70’s this weekend, something outdoors would be fun, don’t you think?

Tonight is for the gym, a trip to the hardware store, and maybe then to Target before having leftover tacos for dinner.

Have a great weekend, y’all!!! xoxo

Spring Cleaning

Like we do every year around this time, or try to at least, we did a little spring cleaning on the front porch this past weekend. It’s incredible (and gross) how much dirt and grime accumulates, and you don’t even really see it until you’re up close and personal in its face.

Our porch could use not only a good cleaning, but a repainting as well. It’s hard to believe we’ve already been here six years, and that was the last time it was painted. We’ve also toyed around with the idea of painting the front door AND the top of our house a different color. We’ll see.

With spring temperatures still feeling like a million years away (it was 26 degrees when we woke up this morning), spring allergies are in full affect here at the McKay house. I love this time of year, but absolutely despise the pollen we get in our area. It’s some of the worst in the country!

Nevertheless, it does feel so good to clean the house, both inside and outside, and once I get all the work finished that’s due this week (including wrapping up the big post about our California trip!), I intend to start cleaning and organizing every closet, corner and cranny of this old house.

I can’t wait.

Have a Cozy Friday Night

Hello loves. What are you up to this weekend?

It’s been raining nonstop all day, which has made it incredibly difficult to want to accomplish anything worthwhile. The only thing we’ve wanted to do since this morning is stay in pajamas and lounge around the house all day.

In an appropriate turn of events, we made chili in the crock pot tonight, complete with PJ’s homemade cornbread. Both hit the spot, and now we’re all relaxing in the living room watching the kids play video games. I can’t think of a better way to spend a Friday night than this right here.

Meanwhile, be on the lookout next week for California Week!!! We’ll be sharing all about our trip out west, including where we stayed, what we ate and all that we did. We’re all so glad to be home, but we’re still California dreaming here down south.

Have a cozy weekend, friends!!