by Leslie Sholly | Jul 15, 2018 | Graveyards, homeschooling, Knoxville, Parenting, Vacations
Y’all, it is HOT. And our access to a swimming pool is gone. It is hard to want to leave the air conditioning to have summer adventures, but we managed three days of fun this week. I couldn’t get it together till Wednesday, when we had to leave the house...
by Leslie Sholly | Jul 7, 2018 | family, Knoxville, Parenting, teenagers, Vacations
I’ll admit it–it is harder to have fun all the time than you might think. Honestly, I really, really like sitting at my desk having uninterrupted time to get work done. Leaving the house is stressful, and sandwiching fun in between not only work but also...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 16, 2018 | family, home decor, Knoxville, Parenting, photoblogging, teenagers, Vacations, Walking in Knoxville
I’ll be honest–it’s getting harder to come up with something to do every day, and now I am laboring under Lorelei and William’s expectations as well. It’s not that I don’t have plenty of ideas–I have a page-long list, in...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 8, 2018 | family, Knoxville, Parenting, Vacations
Well, this has been a busy week! John and I got back from Georgetown Sunday evening, and I was right back into summer adventures with the kids the following day, when we visited McClung Museum. This is a mostly unsung treasure on the University of Tennessee campus. ...
by Leslie Sholly | Mar 16, 2018 | Catholicism, family, Knoxville
As someone who is very proud of her Irish heritage, I was excited to attend the first annual St. Patrick’s Parade in downtown Knoxville last year. Because my sister and her husband had a float in the parade, our whole family got front row VIP seats for the...
by Leslie Sholly | Oct 28, 2017 | Graveyards, Knoxville
It was a beautiful autumn day almost exactly a year ago when I finally visited Bookwalter United Methodist Cemetery, which had been on my list for years. It is a large–over 4,000 graves–cemetery, and has been in continuous use from the 1880s to the...