Jamie Mikol
Jamie resides in Farragut, TN with her husband, 3 kids and 1 dog. When she is not doing SAHM things you can find her watching Netflix, enjoying time with friends, reading a good book, writing for various endeavors, and managing her small business at Milestone Montage. Her favorite smell is marshmallows from the outside of the bag and her least favorite feeling is walking barefoot on all the crumbs on her floor.
I Miss Simplicity
I’m an '80s baby and I’ll be the first to say I miss the simpler days. I miss the '80s. I miss the '90s. I miss pre-internet times. There is something beautiful about simplicity...
The Long Walk To Thompson-Boling Arena
Let me preface this story by informing you this has nothing to do with basketball. It doesn’t even have anything to do with the University of Tennessee. This is a story about one naïve,...
12 Days ‘Til Christmas (Parody Song)
Sung to the tune of “12 Days of Christmas” (but backwards)
Twelve days ‘til Christmas and what’s annoying me?
A dried out, shedding Christmas tree.
Eleven days ‘til Christmas and what’s annoying me?
Empty bank accounts
And a dried...
When Birthdays And Christmas Collide
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could choose the exact day we want to birth our children before even getting pregnant? We could set dates of arrivals to not conflict with other holidays and...
Tips For SAHMs With Traveling Spouses
I am a stay-at-home-mom (SAHM). It’s not necessarily what I pictured as a young girl…I honestly don’t even remember what I pictured, but this is where I have been for the past nine years...
The Presence Of (Grand)Parents
Once upon a time, dating not too far back in history, babies were born, they grew up where they were born, they married where they were born, they had babies of their own where...
The Daycare Good-Bye
"The days are long, but the years are short." -- Gretchen Rubin
“The days are long” part of that phrase hasn’t applied to me since baby #2 arrived. Days just went faster. Then when baby...