The South Will Rise

It is Friday of Labor Day weekend which to me officially is the end of summer.  One last weekend at the beach before we hope the weather turns a bit cooler. However, as sad as I am about summer being over, it also means that college football has started again.  South Carolina kicked off the […]

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We have survived the first week back to school- it actually was relatively easy.  Walker came home the first day saying that he had the best group of teachers which is always good, and more importantly, he has not had too much trouble waking up in the morning.  The main change in school this year […]

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Walker and his two friends have spent a lot of time this past spring working on a pushable lemonade cart so they can better sell lemonade to the masses in Charleston.  Since they have all been gone all summer, yesterday was the first day they were able to try it out.  They went down to […]

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This past weekend we spent Friday night out at the Sanctuary at Kiawah Island- a “staycation” if you will.  It was absolutely wonderful.  I felt like I had been on vacation for a week and we weren’t even there 24 hours.  We arrived on Friday afternoon.  It had been raining the whole day in Charleston, […]

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We had a great weekend celebrating a friend’s 40th birthday for which I made the cake (of course in the shape of a 40- it was pretty awesome), and we had a super fun Sunday beach day yesterday.  However, despite all of the fun in the sun, it is really hot.  I know it is […]

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We are finally home in Charleston, and while we had a great time, it is so good to be back.  The last week we spent up in Linville, NC getting ready for Fancy Dress Ball.  This year instead of family with us, we had some of our closest friends up to participate in the fun.  […]

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