Juggling work, family & faith in the Hospitality State
Peace. Love. Cupcakes. That’s the motto of Frosting, a gourmet cupcake shop on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. We happened upon it when a wrong turn this week led us on an adventure across southern Mississippi. When stopping for dinner at Sweet Peppers Deli in Gulfport on Hwy 49 while heading home, we spied Frosting next [...]
In preparation for our Rapunzel-themed birthday party, I visited our local library and checked out Falling for Rapunzel by Leah Wilcox. We had planned to read it at the party, but as I said in a previous post, we just went outside and played instead. My daughter and I read it later though, and we [...]
The Biloxi Lighthouse is one of the Gulf Coast’s most loved landmarks. The Lighthouse was built in 1848 and has withstood almost two centuries of change (and weather!) on the Coast. My husband went to the Coast for work just a few days after Hurricane Katrina hit, and one of the photos he brought back [...]
Imagine a world where you can be anything you want to be. Put on a hat and be a pilot. Don some rubber boots and catch some shrimp. Take a train and have a tea party. If you can imagine it, you can do it at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center in Gulfport, Mississippi. For [...]
Now’s probably a good time to admit that I was never your most “normal” girl…as a child, I only ever wanted to be one of two things: an archeologist or an astronaut. Indiana Jones and Space Camp were two of my favorite films, and on any given afternoon after school, the swing set was either [...]
Because it’s October, my sister and I took the little ones to Mitchell Farms in Collins…we were hoping to get the perfect autumn photo of all the kids in the pumpkin patch…or the sunflower field. Didn’t work…which brings me to a very important tidbit of wisdom we gleaned (yet again) from experience: take the photo [...]
