New Year’s Eve doesn’t mean a fancy night out to dinner and then a huge party with friends, drinks and loud music for this parent. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever had such a celebration on the last night of the year. Maybe that’s why, with four kids in tow, I’m not terribly resentful [...]
To make this coming year’s lists, I have to know where I’m going, what my priorities are and what I’ll be doing. For me, I work in categories.
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Cleaning : Chore lists are going to be key this year. The kids do better when they know what they’re supposed to do and don’t feel like we’re [...]
Weeks leading to the season of Mystery. Joyful days of Christmas, living into the heart of the mystery itself. The Church’s New Year begun. Days left on the calendar year.
Where to go from here?
Quite obviously, I took time away from the blog-front to finish up the last-minute gifts. Now I have to deal with the [...]
A scarf might have a negative connotation as a gift (perhaps people got burned out on them), but I’m glad they’re making a come-back . . . at least in my book!
Several evenings, this was what awaited me.
Now, my current projects aren’t of the knitting variety, but they have me at the ironing and cutting [...]
FACT: We all have finite amounts of time, money and energy.
FACT: No matter how much money we have or don’t have, there will be others who have more (assuming you’re not like Bill Gates, JK Rowling or the like!) and others who have less.
FACT: Energy is neither created nor destroyed.
FACT: Time is a constant. Twenty-four [...]
Today I wish everyone warmth and love.
May your holiday yummies be shared,May your gifts be well-received,May your eyes twinkle and shineand may your heart be filled with gratitude,peaceandLove.
xoxo
A friend of mine recently said that snow without accumulation is just cruel. Well, I would add that a snow day without snow is equally cruel. We don’t have snow, but apparently some areas had enough ice (not our side of town) to cancel school. We do have frigid temperatures for our area. Husband said [...]
Rush, rush, rush. After a slow morning, rushing is what we were doing to be out the door in time for my meeting.
“What’s that red thing?” Avery asked as I opened the door and closed it again to unlatch the lock.
What red thing? I thought in complete disregard, maybe even annoyance, grabbing miscellaneous item and [...]
Creative fun describes the experience the kids had at the Tricycle Theatre for Youth this morning! I rushed with the kids out of the house on a dreary but atypically warm morning to make the little jaunt to Bentonville. We parked close to the theatre and were greeted with smiles.
My 5yo and 2yo got to [...]
In time for St. Nicholas, we got our tree, trimmings and decorations up in the house. Rather than stress about buying a delightfully rich, prickly, aromatic tree, we’re recycling my ‘n-law’s older artificial tree. I must say that putting it together with the older kids was much more fun than our usual tree run. The [...]
