Tag Archives: The Abbey’s

Is anyone else in denial that it’s already mid-September and August is long gone? (Please, someone tell me that it’s not just me.) August was a BUSY month for our family – we did SO MUCH (which is probably why it flew by at the breakneck pace that it did). I honestly did not take...

As if I needed a reminder, the month of July – the pinnacle of summer – has come and gone.And it flew by faster than ever. While we had a super fun-filled month, we also spent a good chunk of our July being sick. From colds to stomach bugs to pink eye – we ran...

There is a very distinct theme to our June Abbey Archive film – and it’s WATER. And that makes sense, right? After all – summer’s middle name is “water”! We started off the month with some extended time spent at my family’s lake house on Deep Creek Lake in Maryland.And then ended the month with...

Every month, I download all of the photos & videos from my phone onto my computer. From there, I pull all of my video files into Final Cut Pro, to make our monthly “daily life” video. And every month, I have the same feeling: “Did I actually take enough videos to make a film this...

The theme of the month was April was “surprises” – some were great surprises, and some were kind of not-so-great. The GREAT surprises included: -me pulling a small (but mighty) prank on my kids for April Fool’s Day (it was hilarious). -when we siblings successfully pulled off a surprise birthday dinner for my Mom. Also,...