I'm Stephanie, lover of all things orderly, garden-y, and pretty. Also coffee.
I'm a Louisiana girl, but I’ve lived all over the country. It’s made me less rigid, and for that I’m thankful.
I have a curious habit or ten, and I bet you do too. One of mine is chasing rabbits, apparently. What makes me happiest is home and garden, but those topics often lead to lands unknown, so you’re liable to find any topic covered here. No rules, just fun.
Best,
Stephanie
a born-and-raised South Louisiana girl (woman, actually. At what age do we stop being "girls?") but I’ve been around the world and back again. I like to think that makes me well-rounded, but I don't know.
I’m waiting for that aha! moment when I realize what I want to be when I grow up. I'm good with punctuation. I'm organized. I like making things pretty. I like to read and sew. I dabble in a lot of things. Does that make me a Jack of all trades, and master of none? Probably.
I’m a bit of a tomboy I suppose. I love to be outside, mowing or planting something, or piddling. Piddling is big in my family. My dad is a hard-core piddler.
We’re big coffee drinkers too. I'm spoiled, though, having been raised on Community Coffee - imported from Columbia, roasted and ground in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I'm disinclined to drink gas station coffee, fast-food coffee, or diner coffee. Community Coffee sets a high bar.
I am married to Shane, who is brilliant, supportive, and a total overachiever, which has the potential to make me seem terribly ordinary, but also brilliant for choosing him. He has encouraged (enabled?) me to pursue, well, anything I want to. He's responsible for the design of A Curious Habit, and the fact that it exists at all. Shane is a man who makes things happen. He literally hung the moon.
Our boy, Easton, is 20. He's smart and handsome and funny and an outstanding uncle. He’s living the dream at Louisiana Tech. Michael, 31, is Shane's son, but I happily claim him too. He has two boys, Hayden (9) and Grayson (6). To them we are Poppi and Fifi.
What is A Curious Habit?
Well, I'm trying to figure that out. Shane, the encourager, suggested I write about the things I love: home and garden. I'm finding that those two inexhaustible topics get me chasing rabbits. So, I'm writing about some people, places, and things that don't fit into those buckets, like faith, and Prince Charles. There are no rules here, apparently.
I have a few curious habits, mostly involving some OCD tendencies, like cleaning, organizing, and mowing in perfect rows three times a week (don’t judge). Gardening, decorating, learning: all curious habits of mine. (Shane would add correcting grammar.) A Curious Habit seemed a proper name given all the idiosyncrasies that make us uniquely us.
Join me here and we’ll muddle through this together. Mainly, A Curious Habit is for fun, with the happy accident of possibly learning something. At the Michelli house, our mission is to live, learn, and laugh as much as possible, and to find joy in the simple things. And, to hold it all together while we age at the speed of light.
My best,
Stephanie
