It’s the week friends. THE week. Did I leave the house to write with no less than TWO Valentine’s sweaters on? Why yes, yes I did. If you’re like me the events swirling around us make home and marriage and hot tea with the perfect ratio of cream and raw sugar seem so low on the totem pole that they almost don’t register at all. Good tea, good homes and good marriages just don’t seem like enough. I get it. But a candle in my kitchen window tells me another story. It reminds m

The snow quietly falls just outside the window once again and I’m not sorry about it. Hi friends. I greet you from Panera where the orange ginger tea is hot and lovely and the oatmeal cookie ain’t half bad either. Welcome to February where love just floats in the air and where we stick more things than should be hung on the walls and ceilings and especially make a big ‘ol deal each Friday. So in Good Friday-in-February-fashion I thought I’d leave you a marriage post each week

The tree(s) plural still hang around, the clock that plays Christmas carols just may stay for a few more months, the three hoodlums are back in college and I actually threw away a whole container of kolache just because it was "time." Hi friends. It's been a moment. It's been SO long that I had to have professional help just to get back on the blog if you can even imagine?! Panera's cookies still hit the same and no one seemed to be fighting me for my old seat so there's tha

Hi friends. Are you welcoming September with open arms like I am? It's a "make your way to Lancaster, PA for a very special wedding...

We are three and one half hours out from the infamous college drop-off for not one but TWO of ours leaving the nest for the first time,...

I just frantically searched for three solid minutes for my reading glasses on my head. I'm THAT many years old. And then ever so...

Well, one is wed, three head for college in two weeks, and the last of the mohicans begins her tenth grade year of home education. It's...

My younger brother, my only brother and the baby of the family as we like to remind him, has lovely blue-green eyes. BOTH of my older...

I recently read this question and it got the wheels rolling in my mind, "If you could give yourself permission to be curious about your...

Some people leave their heart in New York City, but I prefer to leave my right AirPod in Somerset, Pennsylvania. It does sound a little...

You can say that I have a strange appreciation for old movies. With "Fiddler on the Roof" being one of them. Hi Friends! It's my...

Hi friends. Happy Friday. I'm pulling one out of the "drafts" this afternoon from the site, quietly waiting to see the light of day. With...

When I first learned to drive I had a horrendous sense of direction. Hi friends. Happy Saturday. The dishes are caught-up for the next...

My dear husband changed the picture for this site and I now get to introduce you to my chicken pox scars. I feel like I need that...

You know that thing that's been in the back of your mind for days, weeks or even years. Just go ahead and do it. Hi friends. Happy...

"So you just keep stretching until you can do it?" "My daughter really wants to marry your son." "It would take about three weeks to...

Hi friends. It's been a hot minute. Or a "cold hour,” if you live in the North East. The Lord opened the sweetest opportunity to...

On very rare occasions my sweetheart and I write each other messages in soap on the bathroom mirror. The most recent message from my...

I did NOT grow up around children. No babies to learn to coddle, no toddlers to learn to be patient with. Hi Friends. Happy Fri-yay. Few...

It was a beautiful day for a trip to West Virginia for a wedding. Recently we celebrated my adorable nephew and his sweet bride. Happy...