The Daydream

I have a dream life.
I mean, I have a dream-like life and also a daydream.
I want to tell you a little about each. Today,the daydream.
I’m, no we (I’m still getting used to the fact I have husband), are living in Italy. Somewhere in the south, perhaps Otranto, or maybe Procida.
We live in a villa with [...]

Share Your Love Story Friday #1: Matt + Deb’s Story

You know how much I love LOVE STORIES.
I have much to share from my own love story (today marks our 2 week wedding anniversary), like how we got through one of the most stressful things a new couple can do- joining bank accounts and paying bills- with enough fire and love and hope in our [...]

Single Mom Revolution: Quest to Reach 100,000 Single Moms

It took me a month to tell my parents I was pregnant.
Even though I was an adult, I felt like such a child, so unprepared to be a mother, so scared to death of being single to boot, so uncertain of how the rest of life was going to go.
In my heart of hearts I [...]

Happy Father’s Day Man in Kentucky

I am so proud to call you my husband.
Proof that love stories are possible, not just for a single mom but for her children too.
Happy FIRST Father’s Day, you ‘ole pro.
Happy Father’s Day to all the single dad’s out there too…may somebody be making you a giant breakfast burrito right now.
P.S. A big Happy Father’s [...]

10 Honest Things

A lovely Friday afternoon surprise: while lost in a world of editing photos in an effort to try to make it as a successful portrait photographer, one of my long-lost soul sisters, @Bellissimatina, delighted me with the Honest Scrap Award.
I’m not usually known for jumping into blog memes, but this opportunity sounded fun.
The Honest Scrap [...]

Honeymoon Highlights

According to a woman in Georgia, there are four legends of the honeymoon.
Legend 1:
In ancient times, many of the first marriages were by capture, not choice. While the moon went through all its phases, (about 30 days) the unwilling bride and barbaric groom hid from the searchers and drank a brew made from [...]

Al’s Bar Wedding Highlights

I wasn’t one of those girls that day-dreamed often of her wedding day. Maybe it was because marriage always seemed such a far off, hazily distant non-reality or maybe it was because I just knew the wedding day would only ever be a blip on the screen.
My husband, having been married once before, knew [...]

Bachelorette Party Highlights

Honestly, I am still recovering from last week. (The Ustream Bachelorette Shenanigans with @MissIve, plus the whole getting married thing). Note to future brides: DO NOT plan bachelorette parties of any kind without at least a week’s recovery time before nuptials.? (This is probably the oldest rule in the book, but everything else I did [...]

77 Blind Dates of a Ballroom Dancing Mortician

It seems kinda strange that my first post back after officially not being single any more would? have to do with dating, but I couldn’t resist the invite to be apart of the WOW Blog Tour or the opportunity to introduce you to one funny lady with some wacky and redeeming stories of being single [...]

Wearing Red Movie Star JPeterman Dress

Getting ready in our hotel room for our first date as husband and wife.
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