My wife and I suffer from a shared problem- we can’t stop making things. In the 17 years that we have known each other we have logged many late night hours while trying to “just finish one more thing.” Our poor vehicles have been subject to countless trips to home…
My friend Tisha recently hosted a gender-reveal party and the details were so cute I knew I had to share it with all of you! She had the party on the same Sunday as a Saints game and chose the very apt theme of “Pink V. Blue.” There was lots…
1. Trying to get anywhere when you have to pass the intersection of Causeway and 190. 2. When you go somewhere on the Southshore and people act like you’ve arrived from another country. “You came all the way from the Northshore? When are you going back?” 3. Getting stuck at…
Today we have another post from the midwives at Ochsner North Shore located in Slidell. Karen and Lillian will be working with us over the next few months provided information on pregnancy, labor, and birth, Today they’ll be sharing information on managing pain during labor. ————————————————————————————- Pregnancies last around 40…
This post is brought to you by Insterstate Guns located in Hammond, Louisiana. I did not grow up in a gun household. I lived in the suburbs and no one in my family was an outdoorsman or hunter. The world of shooting and guns was something I never thought about….
The Carey Street Crawl takes place the first Friday of every month in Olde Towne Slidell. It spans the 2200 block of Carey Street, which gets filled with artisans and vendors with goods to sell, as well as a band. The local shops stay open late and the restaurants, Cote’…
Hi there! My name is Jo, and my husband and I moved to New Orleans from Florida as newlyweds in 2008. In 2010, we moved to the Northshore with our first child. We were renting, but it didn’t take us long to decide that we wanted to put down roots…
As a lifelong Southerner, I subscribe wholeheartedly to the philosophy of dressing children traditionally. And, as the mom of a little girl, that includes a giant grosgrain hairbow to match each and every outfit. For the first year of my daughter’s life, she didn’t have enough hair for a bow…
It’s back to school time and another year and set of milestones is upon us. No matter how hard we try to will our children to stay in that sweet, adorable toddler stage, they grow up at warp speed right before our eyes, which is why it’s important to mark…
All my life I’ve been around sports: I played little league baseball for seven years, soccer for a couple and tennis for Slidell High School. At the University of Southern Mississippi – after receiving the message loud and clear that a career in some type of science was not in…