Everyday Living

Milestones & Memories

~ Decorating, Food & Entertaining, Gardening, Grandmother, Outdoors, Recipes, Simple + Southern Sunday, Tablescape Tuesday, Travel

“Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ”
Colossians 3:23-24

Hello sweet friends…and welcome to the post where we reminisce over the last three years, celebrating our blogiversary!  We are marking this special day with a giveaway that you will want to be sure and enter at the end of the post!  Today I want to take you on a little journey of the ever evolving lifestyle blog known as Everyday Living…

…starting with how and why I started blogging.  And the answer to that is simple – it was my Renaissance Man’s (aka Butch) idea that he tossed around for a couple of years.  When he never moved on it, I jumped in and decided I could do a blog.  I thought it would be simple since I enjoy so many different things…surely I could become a blogger with no problems whatsoever.  Little did I know what I was getting into…it only took a post or two for me to see that blogging was way more than snapping a few pretty pics and posting them with a nice caption.  And six hundred posts later, I am still learning!

But without you my sweet friends and readers who meet me here almost daily to read and comment, there would be no blog!  You have encouraged and inspired me as I have felt your warmth, kindness, and support to keep doing what I love!  From a special friend in Spain to all of you in the U.S., thank you would never be enough!
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Melt In Your Mouth Hummingbird Cookies

~ Food & Entertaining, Recipes

“Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.”
‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭12:25‬ ‭

Hello sweet friends…and I sure hope you all brought your appetite with you today! Hummingbird Cake is my very favorite and my precious Mama always made it for my birthday and often for our family’s Sunday lunches! I will tell you just how much I have missed it…I made it for myself for Mother’s Day this year! SO you can imagine my excitement when I saw this recipe on Phyllis Hoffman DePiano’s beautiful blog A Ribbon In My Journal! Phyllis is the CEO of Hoffman Media that publishes some of my favorite magazines such as Southern Lady, Victoria, Southern Home, The Cottage Journal…ok you get the picture, I am a big fan of hers! When I saw this recipe in December I just knew that I had to make these cookies, but I have just now gotten around to it! Oh my, why did I wait? These are perfect with just about anything…a cup of chamomile, espresso, or a tall glass of very cold milk! Here’s to my now all-time favorite cookie!

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Bringing Spring To The Table

~ Decorating, Food & Entertaining, Recipes

“Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; His going out is sure as the dawn; He will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
Hosea 6:3

It’s popping up everywhere you look.  All over the deep south, there are subtle signs of spring!  We have not had much of a winter here, so it seems like the seasons changed a little early on us.  If you know me, you know I love color, so when springtime rolls around and color starts shining…it makes me a happy girl!  Here at our house, our snowball bushes will be bursting into bloom soon and there are tiny pink flowers on our patio peach trees….I love looking out our kitchen door to see them!  We all know that spring brings a little “happy” with the color and warmer temps, but it also brings a little variation in what goes on the table…both food and decor!  Today, I hope you’ll relax and take a look at our round up of how we are bringing spring to the table!  

  Springtime and lemons go together in my opinion.  My Mother’s Lemon Cheesecake recipe is my all-time favorite!
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