My crazy did not beat out my sanity this morning. Everyone won.
"Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat..."? This song. I've known it since childhood. I have wonderful memories of singing it in the back of the car with my…
Parenting: I’ve learned that there are only degrees of failure. And that’s okay.
When I first became a mother, I was young. Not Loretta Lynn young, but young enough to still have a head full of delusions of grandeur and invincibility that only…
Bucket List update – Six weeks in and the results are not so much pretty.
Yikes! I had better step up my game and quickly! I only have four weeks left to get four months worth of challenges done. Oh yeah. I got this. The…
Almost three weeks in, time for a 2015 Summer Bucket List Check-In
I thought today may be a good time check in with my Summer 2015 Bucket List and take stock of how I'm doing, where I'm winning and where I'm tanking.…
Upside-Down Pizza Casserole – Recipe
I have to share this one. It is simple, it is fast, and it is totally and completely delicious (if you like pizza, that is. And, if you do not…
Food for thought – Scottish style
I love me a good proverb and I love all things Scottish (aye, 'tis in me blood, so it is), so when I came across these little morsels of Scot…
What every daughter wants
is a dad who feels this way about her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELmJHrmtCcU and a dad who thinks that she is special enough to write this song about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzyQx6AL1MQ and while daughters may…
Five nice’ish things that I done did for OTHERS this week
The other day I blogged about five nice things that I did for myself this week (you can read about that here). But, after publishing, as the hours ticked by, I started…
I fear for the future if this is where Google is leading people
Logical sequencing, sensible leaps in reasoning, educated guessing. Many of us do these things on a daily basis. Some of us (um, not me?) take twisty, wonky roads to reach…
I went on vacation and things exploded around here
I came home to Keswick only to find that my garden vegetables converted into the vegetable equivalent of 'Girl's Gone Wild' meet 'Welcome to the Jungle' They're supposed to ripen…