Blog Button Design Battle

Filed Under: Uncategorized // May 18, 2013

My button is one of the ten in this week’s button design battle! Please vote for my button 🙂

Welcome to Round 2 of the Blog Button Design Battle with Peacoats & Plaid. Want to know who won Round 1? Drum roll please…

Congrats to Kelly from The No Drama Mama! Kelly’s winning button design:

The runner-up spot goes to Hollie from Blog-o-hollic.

This week’s participants include:

Reese from The Importance of Being Reese
Amberly from Life With Amberly & Joe
Kalyn from Love, Laughter, Happily Ever After
Jules from My Mom’s a Whack Job
Filiz from Light & Sweet
Sara from Sara in Texas
Chamel from Chamel’s Creations
Jackie from City Girl Finding Her Place in the World
Areeba from Aree With Umbrella
Amanda from Little Lady Living

Vote for your favorite and most eye-catching button by clicking on the thumbnail below. Make sure you’re voting solely on eye appeal. You can only vote once, so make it count.

Check back next week for Round 3. If you’re interested in participating in Season 2 of the Blog Button Design Battle, make sure you subscribe to Peacoats & Plaid for updates.

High 5!

Filed Under: Uncategorized // May 17, 2013

1. I WON a free pair of these courtesy of the RFA Group!

2. Mini vacation to AC is BOOKED. 3. This. video. These. feelings. Definitely takes me back to last winter.

4. Warmer weather is upon us 🙂 5. Smoochies from this handsome fella SO soon!

Thankful Thursday

Filed Under: Uncategorized // May 16, 2013

I have much to be thankful for:

To be alive and healthy

Family, my number #1 fans, especially my parents and “baby” brother

Tim, who’s stuck by me through these roller coaster years

Making it through law school!

Having time off btwn my exams and review course

To be able to spend time with T then 🙂

My girls night dinner tonight.. I say it time and time again: there’s nothing like good quality time with my girls

My support system of fabulous family and friends who make me laugh, are my biggest fans, and make me feel better about whatever’s going on in life

Add’l linkups: Thirsty Thursday & Thursday Thoughts post signature

Food for thought

Filed Under: Uncategorized // May 15, 2013

This is a recent favorite of mine, so naturally I had to share with my lovely readers:

The Dash

by Linda Ellis

I read of a man who stood to speak
at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone,
from the beginning…to the end.

He noted that first came the date of her birth
and spoke of the following date with tears,
but he said what mattered most of all
was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time
that she spent alive on earth.
And now only those who loved her
know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own,
the cars…the house…the cash.
What matters is how we live and love
and how we spend our dash.

So, think about this long and hard.
Are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left
that can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
to consider what’s true and real
and always try to understand
the way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger
and show appreciation more
and love the people in our lives
like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect
and more often wear a smile,
remembering that this special dash
might only last a little while.

So, when your eulogy is being read,
with your life’s actions to rehash…
would you be proud of the things they say
about how you spent YOUR dash?

Linkup: Wednesday Walkabout

Looking back

Filed Under: Uncategorized // May 14, 2013

When I was 21, I had been in a pretty serious relationship for a while, as in ~5 years a while. We were best friends who’d known each other since we were 11. To outsiders, we were THE perfect couple. Everyone was waiting for our engagement and wedding. But, for me at least, something had been missing and would continue to be missing for another couple of years. I could never pinpoint it. Very few people knew how I felt. Yet I trucked on with lifelong plans because he was a good guy. Because I was in love with the idea of marrying my high school sweetheart. And because I wanted a sure future. That white picket fence in the suburbs I’d always wanted. Success. All at a young age. What I was failing to understand was that those things are material, we must want to be with the person behind it all. I did not have the courage at 21 to do what I did at 22. But I can distinctly remember having thoughts that I couldn’t settle anymore – I could not let my heart settle for a less than an over-the-moon love. So I took a chance and what’s come from it has been the most amazing love of all. A love that I never knew existed. It’s hard to explain, as love always is, but for me it’s {paradise}. I am so grateful for God plan’s and for having everything fall into place just as it has.

“but when we were ready, and not on our time, but His … we both got someone perfect for us.

and … we both have come to live our very own happily ever after.

proving that Gods plan is better than the best thing you can think of.

don’t settle for good. better yet, don’t settle at all.

trust that what He has in store for you is better.”

– Sarah Tucker Linkups: Just Because & Take Me Back Tuesday post signature