by Leslie Sholly | Jun 30, 2018 | family, Parenting, Vacations
Remember when I told y’all that we weren’t doing a 70s summer around here? Well, this week we did our best imitation and as a result this will be a very short post. The reason: POOL. So to me, daily access to a swimming pool is an absolute necessity for...
by Leslie Sholly | Jun 26, 2018 | family, Parenting, Vacations
Our fun summer continued last week with a little less creativity needed on my part, since we were on our actual vacation! We traveled to Beech Mountain, North Carolina, to stay at a timeshare provided by my oldest friend and her family. We had a wonderful time and I...
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 | Jun 1, 2018 | family, Parenting, Vacations, Walking in Knoxville
The first full week of summer break is coming to a close so I thought I’d give y’all an update on our summer of fun. Sundays are already busy, with the day half gone by the time we get home from 11:30 Mass, plus John and I have a standing meeting on Sunday...
by Leslie Sholly | May 28, 2018 | family, Parenting, Vacations
You’ve probably seen posts like this and this extolling the virtues of the summers of yore and planning to recreate them. Heck, I might even have written a post like that myself. Now, don’t get me wrong–I loved my childhood summers. It sounds...