Your Nautical and Coffee Obsessed Best Friend: From Travel to Fashion and Everything in between
“Autumn is the season to find contentment at home by paying attention to what we already have.” Unknown Happy Thanksgiving! I am posting this with just over an hour to spare but, Happy Thanksgiving friends! I hope you have an amazing day filled with joy, gratitude, some humbleness, and of course all the delicious food! [...]
"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse." ~ Henry Van Dyke This post contains affiliate links where I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you, but it does help support this blog and my coffee addiction. [...]
"Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving." ~ Amy Grant Happy Thanksgiving Framily! What a year it has been and what a crazy way for it to end! Life is crazy and unpredictable and sometimes it can just bleeping suck. But on the other side it [...]
"Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside." ~ Willard Scott Some Links are affiliate links and I receive a small commission (usually to help pay for my coffee habits) at no extra cost to you. A Different Thanksgiving While Thanksgiving might look vastly different for many of us [...]
"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude." ~ Denis Waitley Practicing Gratitude I know, I know, I am officially a broken record when it comes to gratitude. But I am a broken record because it is something that [...]
"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings." ~ William Arthur Ward Warning: This post mentions Eating Disorders Rushing the Holidays Before everyone gets those carving knives out, I swear I am not trying to hate on Thanksgiving. I know many people who love it [...]
"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." ~ Tecumseh Recaps My trip home for Thanksgiving flew by. It felt like I [...]
"If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share." ~ W. Clement Stone Back With Family Despite Thanksgiving being a family holiday, since I was a teenager, I can count on one hand the times I havespent it with my immediate family. It always seemed I was traveling. Or the insanity to travel [...]
"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend." ~ Melody Beattie Gratitude There is so much in life to [...]
"One of my favorite things is to have a three-hour conversation over coffee with someone." ~ Andy Grammer Peppermint White Mochas It has been a hot minute (or month) since I did an If We Were Having Coffee post and it is high time I did an update. I write this from the snowy White Mountains [...]