The summer is drawing to an end and everyone is setting their sights on the end of the heat, football and fall leaves in the trees…and the start of a new school year! When I start working with an organizing client in our initial meeting I talk to them about…
August is a pretty busy month with school starting for a large chunk of our readers, but even so, you might find yourself looking for something do do with your kids. So we give you thirty-one things to do in August. A list of ideas with one for each day…
I’m not going to lie – just two short years ago I was telling a coworker I didn’t know how she did all her clothes shopping online, and here I am today, regularly getting packages from multiple online shopping sources. It’s fun because it’s different stuff you don’t always have…
Some people making the mistake of thinking that the Northshore is just an extension of the south shore. They’re wrong, though. The Northshore is a distinct area and while it is heavily influenced by New Orleans and its suburbs, we have our own ways of doing things over here. We…
Some may call me a little “crunchy” while I can’t take the full title of a hippie mom I do like to make things when I can instead of buying them. I have one child and many pets in the house. When I cleaned I always worked it around everyone…
Two and a half years ago, after an unexpected turn of events, I found myself laid off from my job. At the time my kids were 18 months and 6 months and we had been fighting to find a balance of me being a working mom with two small kids…
This post is sponsored by Palm Village Mandeville In the late 1950s, socialite Lilly Pulitzer opened a juice stand with oranges from her husband’s citrus groves. Finding that her clothes would end up stained from spilled juice, she designed simple shift dresses in bold prints to hide the stains. The…
Grow, grow, growing! St. Tammany continues to grow with several new businesses opening on both the west and east end of the parish. These places are in addition to all the places I’ve seen expanding as well. Give these places a peek and don’t forget to support local businesses whenever…
As we can all tell the summer heat is here and not going away anytime soon. My boys always want to be outside in the afternoons (why at the hottest part of the day?!) so we are always looking for a cool treat. This past week I came up with…
This post is brought to you by Christie Tournet of Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr, and Smith. Christie Tournet is a local attorney and I have known her personally for at least a decade (I stop counting after ten because it makes me remember how old I am). When I realized…