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Porch Goals for the Spring

I received my March issue of Southern Living last week in the mail.  That’s always such a joyous mail day because I love SL magazine and it’s not a bill!  As I was reading the magazine this past weekend, I came across a page in the Home + Garden section that listed annuals and perennials for spring.  And now I’m dying to add flowers to my house this spring!

When we built our house last year, we went ahead and had the builder landscape the front beds.  Since I’m no master gardener, I’m going to leave those alone for now and just focus on adding urns to the front porch.

Our house faces north so our front porch is shaded pretty much all day.  It’s great for sitting on, but not so great when it comes to flowers.

Those poor Mums didn’t make it very long in the shade last fall.

My dreams front porch would have this:


But more realistically speaking, I think I’ll have to go for something similar to these or for any flower that requires shade.



Let’s talk:

Any tips on a flower or plant that could withstand the shade this spring and summer?


Don’t forget to link up with Victoria and me for our Book Club Thursday!  You can link up any post with a book review, recommendation, list of books you want to read–anything book related!  I can’t wait to see what everyone links up!


Three Ways My Husband Shows Me He Cares

Sunday night before the Oscars started, I made myself a Spark and sat on the couch to watch the first 30 minutes or so of the show.  For those of you who don’t know, Spark is a vitamin and energy drink from Advocare, and typically you’re supposed to drink it in the morning or early on in the day.  I didn’t think it would affect me very much, but I was wired Sunday night and probably didn’t fall asleep until midnight where I slept horribly after that.  My husband had to work yesterday so before he went to bed, I jokingly told him to get my side of the bed ready (I sleep with a blanket over my side of the comforter to keep me extra warm).  When I finally went to get in bed that night, I walked in to see that he had left my lamp on, put my blanket over my side of the bed, and moved my pillow right next to his.  It’s little moments like this that remind me how much he really cares about me 🙂


THREE WAYS MY HUSBAND SHOWS ME HE CARES

1. He honors my strange requests.  Just last night I made us a few quick smores after our supper.  As we were eating them standing up in the kitchen, I reminded Dustin to eat them over his plate since they will drip chocolate.  He jokingly asked if we wanted to go eat them on couch…our off white/cream couch.  I love that he can joke with me about how I am when it comes to keeping things clean, but that he also honors that too.  He shows me he loves me by consciously taking care of our things.


2. He shows concern for me when I don’t feel well.  I’ve always had major stomach issues, and I don’t think Dustin fully understood those until we got married and the stress of graduate school took a toll on my body.  Whenever my stomach issues flare up or any other time I’m sick, he always asks what he can do to help.  If I ask him to bring me medicine or to even go to the store to grab something, he does it immediately.


3. He values my input.  It doesn’t matter what it is–vacation, job, clothing choices–Dustin always asks for my input and he values my opinion.  Us women love to give our opinion on anything, and I love that Dustin honestly wants my opinion on things.  My favorite is whenever he’s off and I’m at work, I’ll notice I have a text from him and it’ll be a picture of his outfit asking me if it looks good or matches.  Even when I’m away from him, he wants my input!


Dustin, thank you for loving me and putting my needs before yours in our marriage.  I love you and I can’t wait to experience so many things with you!


Love that my husband can fall asleep anywhere and at any time of the day!

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Weekend Recap!

Can you believe it’s February 29th?  I’m so ready for March because I feel like that brings spring-like weather (and spring break), and February happens to be extra-long ha!  Such a tease!

This weekend was full of lots of rest and quality time.  I didn’t get pictures of everything we did, but we definitely did a lot.

Started it out with a filling breakfast–I’m really loving the Ezekiel break English muffins.
Bowling
We’ve been together almost 5 years and have never gone bowling together–so crazy, I know!  I forgot to mention to D that I was pretty good at bowling hahaha
Saturday I took lots of pictures of me in clothes so I’ll bypass that.  We also went out to eat that night with my in-laws after Dustin got off work.


Sunday had the most amazing weather!  After church we headed to the river to walk on the trail–the weather spoiled me for sure.  Spring, where are you?
Letting me know what all we could do with a boat 😉

We ended the night by having my sister and her husband over.  We snacked on a cheese tray (goat, smoked gouda, and cheddar) before eating deer burgers and sweet potato fries.  That was definitely my cheat meal of the week.

Happy Monday!
Don’t forget to vote in the Presidential Primary!  For Alabamians, it’s tomorrow!  It’s so important to vote–we have the freedom to vote, so get out there and make your vote count!

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