by Leslie Sholly | Aug 12, 2019 | Babies, Catholicism, family, Knoxville, marriage, Notre Dame, Parenting, photoblogging, Spring Hill, teenagers, Vacations
John and I were married thirty years ago today, at 12:30 p.m. to be precise. To celebrate our anniversary and to reflect on what all those years have meant, I am sharing one picture from each year, with commentary. August 12, 1989, as we emerged from Immaculate...
by Leslie Sholly | Aug 4, 2018 | Knoxville, Parenting, teenagers
It was the second to last full week of summer break, and my pace was slowing, but we still had some fun times! On Tuesday we had breakfast at Nick and J’s, a former Waffle House now locally owned and serving breakfast and lunch, with the most enormous pancakes I...
by Leslie Sholly | Jan 16, 2018 | Babies, Catholicism, Deep Thoughts, Parenting
Growing up Catholic, if I thought about the word “vocation” at all, it was in the context of a call to the priesthood. We were encouraged to pray for more vocations because of the looming shortage of priests. And this sense of vocation as a specifically...
by Leslie Sholly | Dec 14, 2017 | review, shopping, sponsored, us family guide
Do you like board games? Do you like silly physical challenges? Do you like laughing hysterically? If so, you are probably going to like this game, which I received free as a U.S. Family Guide blogger in exchange for my honest review. So Watch Ya’ Mouth,...
by Leslie Sholly | May 25, 2017 | Catholicism, Notre Dame, Politics, Uncategorized, Vacations
We’ve just returned from an epic weekend of graduation festivities as Teddy’s Notre Dame adventure has come to a close. Four years flew by, as they are wont to do when you have kids, and it won’t be long before I’ll be writing a melancholy...