Have a merry every day
As I write this the tree it twinkling, the cookies are soon to be baking, and I am slowly freaking out as I make a list and check it twice
The season to embrace the imperfect
We are in the thick of the wonderful season that is Christmas at our home. The cookies, the caroling, the snow and the glow....
Mr. Fix-It and Mrs. Breaker
Victory red, jet black leather interior, spoiler, sunroof and looked almost as sharp as the day it rolled of the showroom floor and into...
Deck the halls with gravy boats
Someone shanghaied my gravy boats. In the wee hours of Thanksgiving morn there must have been a wee gravy mutiny, because I realized I...
Love and faith gone underground
I think that some of life’s best moments happen underground. So many of us have fond memories of memorable moments spent in the church...
Planning happy holidays
Over the river and through the wood to Grandmother’s house we go!
It’s a refrain as old as the hills — or at least as...
O captain, my captain
Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.
— Henry Ford
There is a certain beauty in a Midwestern autumn afternoon. The light...
Stripping is not for sissies
“It has so much CHARM” I said.
“It has so much CHARACTER” I said.
“Just shoot me now” I said.
The latter as I entered hour nine...
Finders keepers
Apparently when you become a mother they install a device on your person that keeps track of all your offspring's belongings at all times....
Picky people
I’m not going to get any smarter — ever. I know this because I went ahead and picked at the wallpaper. That is always...
