‘Build Me Up, Buttercup’

Appreciating my other half Before I begin, I want to thank you all for hanging with this blog and participating by dropping comments here and on Facebook. My last post seemed to grab some folks, and on one hand I'm glad it did. On the other hand, I'm a bit sad that it did, because …

And They Called It Puppy Love

Adjusting to our newest addition Our family has grown by one. We now have a little girl at home. This little girl: Meet ZuZu Bailey Ramsey, everyone! She is a 4-month-old miniature schnauzer and weighs a little more than 9 pounds. She hails from Indiana, but now she calls Kentucky home. I may have mentioned …

Home Sweet Home

Making our house our own Cory and I bought our house in January 2017. We were thrilled to get it. The local market is insane, and most houses are already sold before the realtor can even take the listing off Zillow. More than one inquiry about a listing yielded the response that someone had beaten …

Beat the Clock

When life gets in the way of spending time together Last week was crazy busy for me, and this week looks like a repeat. And this happens, right? For one reason or another, some weeks seem to be a little fuller than normal weeks. Thirty minutes here, an hour there, and before you know it, you don't have time to eat dinner because …

Faint of heart

I think I became part of an urban legend last week. Cory was out of town for the evening last Thursday visiting his parents. A late meeting after work put me home around 8:30 p.m. Although not entirely thrilled to be alone - a writer's imagination will do strange things when the writer is alone …

The missing

For those of you hoping for a blockbuster thriller post, I apologize for misleading you. No one goes missing in this story. At least not against his or her will. Last week took me completely out of my regular routine, workplace, town and sleep schedule. My alma mater, Western Kentucky University, hosts a workshop somewhere …

The protector

Marriage offers learning opportunities, and Cory and I have experienced several in just less than four months in to this thing. Sometimes we learn about each other, our relationship, or ourselves. A couple weeks ago, I think we both learned about all three of those things. Our wedding ceremony is still pretty fresh in our …

‘The Wicker Man’

The event of yesterday played out in my head much more comical and chaotic before it happened than it actually was. We bought furniture for our sun room. Online. As in, assemble it ourselves. Anyone without a mechanically inclined background who has had to assemble IKEA furniture or a child's playset knows the struggle that …

The problem with deifying Chris Pratt and Anna Faris

I hesitate to even comment on this situation I'm writing about today, but I feel like it deserves a little commentary. (Because heaven knows we certainly don't have enough commentary on the Internet, do we? *eye roll*) It's been several days since the news of Chris Pratt and Anna Faris' split hit the circuit. If …

What’s in a name?

Because the days are going faster and faster here lately, it seems, I will go ahead and declare this post the last blog post I will make as Monica Spees. As a kid, I didn't hate having an odd last name, but I didn't love it either. As you can imagine, having "pees" in your …