The last week has been filled with bits of this, dabs of that, some cleaning, some crafting . . . oh and back to school for our boys (4th and 7th grades), new/more work hours for my husband, getting into the routine of my new job, changing cell phone carriers,[Read more]
I turned 46 today. In addition to my traditional gifts of chocolate cake, mint chocolate chip ice cream, and completing a series of projects around the house, my husband gave me a pair of TARDIS earrings. I hadn’t been feeling particularly reflective about this birthday (unlike previous years), but these earrings triggered[Read more]
When is the last time you shared a want or a need or a hope or a dream? This afternoon, I found myself staring at a bin full of empty Altoids tins, thinking how amazingly easy it was to acquire these. I saw a craft I wanted to try that requires[Read more]
I’m not always productive (yes, even I spend my day rearranging deck chairs, from time to time). But yesterday was one of those days when one project required I complete another project, and then those two projects required the reallocation of space, and that snowballed into our reorganizing three out[Read more]
It’s no stretch to say our family is in a rut when it comes to evening meals. The truth is we’re simple folks with simple palates, content to stick with what we know. But when 5:00 pm catches me by surprise, I stand, like a deer in headlights, staring in our[Read more]
Now that school systems have such different calendars, the start of a new school year doesn’t feel as momentous as I recall from my childhood. My friends in southern Indiana are on a year-round calendar, so they went back on July 30. In much of Michigan, the first day of[Read more]