Category: Family & Everyday Life

Good evening, friends, Well, the snow has given way to COLD! 🙂 Now we are in a cold snap. And genius me decides today is the day to go shopping. Yep. Everyone else in Northern Illinois had the same idea. However, here’s the deal with shopping, grateful to be able to GO shopping. To have…

Good morning, friends, Looking out my bedroom window this morning, I smile as I watch the birds fly from branch to branch tossing snow effortlessly to the ground.  A few of the little birds are perched close to our window, peering in. The day dawns bright and clear, have you noticed how snow helps the…

Good morning, friend, Today finds me with a dog snuggled next to me on one side and a cuppa on the other. The loud dishwasher (which should have been run…) is chugging away. The darkness still fills the house. Lights under the stove and cabinets cast strange images across the walls. The wind is blowing…

Good morning, beloved, Day 3 begins..school has begun. Why do I always seem to be the one who learns the most? I always have a picture of how the day should progress, when each subject should begin and end (because no child requires aid), that we are done at the golden hour of noon. These…

An open letter to my younger self: Good morning, me, I know you are thinking that these days are lasting forever. That you will never sleep again. That your kids will never use the proper facilities to evacuate their bowels. I’m here to tell you, they will. When people tell you, these days go so…