Healing
I am starting to see signs of healing. I know it won’t happen over night—especially not for my girl. But it’s nice to see little signs of normalcy. I’ve never been so happy to hear the [...]
Glimpses of spring…
on my window sill... in my front yard... and in my back yard, too. Are you seeing signs of spring where you live, too? As a Michigan girl for the first half of my life, it [...]
Magazine Love
If you’ve been reading for a while, you know about my love of magazines. I have always, always loved magazines and catalogs. I remember as a teenager thumbing through Seventeen magazine over and over and over [...]
Happy Monday!
I hope this Monday finds you refreshed and recharged. We had spring-like weather on Saturday, more on the way this week. So exciting! I know it’s been warming up around the country, and I don’t know [...]
Organized Knitting
Back in December I mentioned that I had taken up a knitting. Heidi commented "OMG, you are knitting!! That is awesome! Now you can tell all us readers how to organize our hordes of yarn. :-) [...]
Would you rather…
...go to the grocery store or clean your house? I need to do both tonight and would much, much rather clean than grocery shop. I think this shift happened right around the time milk hit $3 [...]
One Little Word for 2009
I've decided once again to join Ali's one little word project again for 2009. I seriously love the simplicity of this idea. Selecting one word as a point of focus for the year ahead. I truly love this. My [...]
It’s a wrap!
Spent the day wrapping gifts...my favorite holiday task of all. This year I used things I already had on hand. Just bought one new roll...the "Santa wrap" shown above. This is the never-before-seen wrap that is [...]
Joyful Anticipation
Lots of anticipation is in the air today... Putting the finishing touches on Christmas preparations...running a few final errands and getting ready to wrap (my favorite part.) Grandma Suzi, my Mom, is en-route via train from Michigan. [...]
It’s quiet…
...for the first time all day. It was our second "snow day" of the week here. I put that term in quotes because really, if the grass is still showing through the snow, is it snowy [...]