I think I’ve posted multiple times already about how adorable she is. So one more time won’t hurt!When she’s eating something she likes, she says “umm, numm, nummm.” She screams when she’s happy! She spent about half an hour tonight playing on the bed with her new stuffed dog. She’d bounce the dog, chew the …
Did I really just start a project involving writing a blog post every day for a whole year? Yes I did. We will see how it unfolds, but for now it’s going one day at a time. Today was a busier, crazier, sicker day than I planned. I hoped to get up early, go to …
Today was about not getting annoyed when things don’t go my way. I can’t claim complete success, but I stayed aware and chose mostly to be up rather than down. Let’s start with a drive across the lake with Baby to a friend’s to pick up some milk, and two stops along the way owing …
I can’t change the world if I don’t work on myself. At least, that’s a tenet of my working philosophy, and it’s important to me. It’s been stated in many ways: practice what you preach; let deeds, not words be your adorning; don’t be a hypocrite; and on and on the advice goes to start …
Over the past few months I’ve begun to percolate with ideas. I’m bursting with energy to make and create. Starting with crafts: I HAD to make headbands for my girl (4 of them – none really worked – who cares??) and have some new fabric to make 2 more. Then a purse: I’ve had the …
Life for the past few years has kept me in constant motion, through extremes I never would have imagined. With a move back home from the States – jobless, newly single and wiped out emotionally and physically from the strain of trying to make it on my own – I was living with my parents …
We had our second “discussion gathering thingie” this afternoon at our friends’ home on the theme of “balance.” Balance for me is a reminder to take care of everything I need to take care of, not just those things that are easy or convenient. And as a mother, or perhaps as a woman who now …