I'm breaking down the peppers in a skillet and slicing up an onion, turning to let a few tears from cutting them burn my eyes a bit while...

It's a squint-your-eyes to look outside kinda snow day today. Happy Friday Friends. Snow just never gets old to me. I now know what a...

I'm enchanted with a woman's laughter at the table beside me, her gray hair half-swept in a sparkly clip and also with the man in the...

How can it be the week of Christmas already? Hello friends, you doin' okay? Are you on the continual hunt for tape and scissors like I...

Merry December friends. Ahh, December. That month of all things Jesus and glistening snow and yet the most stressful of the entire year....

Hello friends. A very blessed Tuesday to you all. The house smells like Pumpkin from pies baking in the oven and the kids are ALMOST done...

Good Monday afternoon friends. It's been a hot minute since I've had opportunity to encourage my faithful few here. To say getting school...

My Father-in-law handed me a few old pictures of my husband and I a week ago telling me that he found them while cleaning out something....

I'm not the kind of Mom to tell you that you must hang-on to these moments before they're gone. Hi friends. Hope your first day of Fall...

A trumpet sounds long, low blasts of notes upstairs during a skype lesson while the girls navigate our first year of video schooling...

After this week, I think I can easily state that I need to relinquish my title as "The Fun Planner" of our family. I'm back at Panera...

I had coffee late (too late) in the evening and now I'm up and the pup has already taken possession of my side of the bed. It's a grand...

The dog-days of Summer are just at our heels and I am still trying to learn what it is to be a good "Dog Mom." Greetings friends. Happy...

My family was not an emotional family. Well, I shouldn't say that exactly. Good Monday friends. I should be in bed getting much needed...

My Anniversary present had me standing at my own locked front door at two in the morning. Happy Thursday friends. Let me add that my...

There were only Granny Moo Moos left at Walmart when I made a mad dash for last minute Camp necessities. Happy Wednesday friends. Camp....

I've lost my anniversary gift 5, 327 times in almost two weeks. Good Thursday to you friends. Yes, I will admit it's true. I've lost the...

I'm eating a glorious piece of chocolate cake on this Friday afternoon. Hi friends. And take my word for it when I say that this is...

Happy Thursday friends. it's good to see a schedule again after a few weeks of craziness around here. College kids are home for the...

I remember Junior High. And I remember there being more "lows" than "highs," for sure. Happy Thursday friends. The teeniest shrub of a...