family Archives - Sweet, Sassy, and Southern https://sweetsassysouthern.com/tag/family/ Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:52:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://i0.wp.com/sweetsassysouthern.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Sweet-Sassy-and-Southern.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 family Archives - Sweet, Sassy, and Southern https://sweetsassysouthern.com/tag/family/ 32 32 214325270 Perfect memories, not perfection https://sweetsassysouthern.com/perfect-memories-not-perfection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=perfect-memories-not-perfection Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:52:01 +0000 https://sweetsassysouthern.com/?p=348 I had planned to share an easy dessert recipe, but that didn’t quite happen. Instead, I learned a lesson and decided I would share that instead. Yesterday, I ran some errands and stopped in at …

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]]> 348 Swimming in Mountain Rivers https://sweetsassysouthern.com/swimming-in-mountain-rivers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=swimming-in-mountain-rivers Sun, 02 Jun 2024 11:35:00 +0000 https://sweetsassysouthern.com/?p=332 A friend of mine recently posted a meme on her Facebook page that said, “Some people have never swam in a mountain river and it shows,” and immediately I was transported back to my childhood. …

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]]> 332 Updates https://sweetsassysouthern.com/updates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=updates Sun, 12 May 2024 12:08:30 +0000 https://sweetsassysouthern.com/?p=328 So much has happened since my last post, and I do apologize for not posting. It seems like the last six months have flown by in a blur. Between health issues, moving, and making a …

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]]> 328 Remembering my mom and dad https://sweetsassysouthern.com/remembering-my-mom-and-dad/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=remembering-my-mom-and-dad Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:30:40 +0000 http://sweetsassysouthern.com/?p=264 This time of year always leaves me a little emotional. In 2008, my mother lost her battle with small cell lung cancer on March 30th. In 2016, my father passed due to stage IV COPD …

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]]> 264 Christmas Traditions https://sweetsassysouthern.com/christmas-traditions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=christmas-traditions Sat, 24 Dec 2022 17:56:33 +0000 http://sweetsassysouthern.com/?p=150 Christmas traditions exist in so many different ways and vary from family to family. Over the years, I watched as my family’s Christmas traditions merged with others and soon morphed into something very different from …

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]]> 150 Nothing Fancy https://sweetsassysouthern.com/nothing-fancy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nothing-fancy Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:37:17 +0000 http://sweetsassysouthern.com/?p=35 There is nothing fancy about me. I am the daughter of an auto body repairman and a textile mill worker. My dad worked on cars, painting them and would come home smelling of paint and …

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]]> 35 Comfort Food https://sweetsassysouthern.com/comfort-food/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=comfort-food Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:17:14 +0000 http://sweetsassysouthern.com/?p=100 There are certain foods that when I think about them, I am transported back in time to my childhood and even to my younger adult years. My mother’s fried chicken. Her stewed potatoes with cornbread. …

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