Winter in Charleston has been incredibly mild and boy have I loved it! (Michael keeps reminding me that it probably means we're in for an intensely hot summer, but I'm enjoying not freezing to death in the present. #thelittlethings haha. You all will have to remind me of this if I complain about the summer heat!) Because winter has been so mild, signs of spring have been present since the beginning of February.

If you've spent any time with my family, you'll probably have gathered that they're coffee people. Coffee is a necessary part of the day for all of them. (I somehow didn't catch this coffee fever. I tend to prefer tea or hot chocolate. It's almost as if I received the cumulative loathing for coffee that the rest of them were spared.) Whenever our family has traveled anywhere, we always end up trying a sampling of local coffee shops and trying to find the best coffee in town.

Happy Valentine's Day, my beautiful friends! 

Over the years I've known people that love Valentine's Day and I've known people that loathe it. I've had friends that always celebrate, whether they're in a relationship or not, and I've had friends that want to lock themselves away and avoid the world for the entire day because seeing so much PDA is overwhelming...emotional...discouraging...or painful.