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Rain, Little Kidneys & COVID-19
Where to even begin? Take a seat, COVID, it’s not your turn. Before the Storm When March rolled around, I had no idea the mayhem that laid in store. I was excited for Birthday Month, well, as excited as someone in their late 30s can be about birthday month. With our trucking business fully staffed […]
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Happy New… March
What can I say, the beginning of the New Year got away from me? Between work, basketball season, and family day to day (flooded basement, anyone?) I’ve had a hard time getting anything extra done. But life is good and I just wanted to pop in and say don’t worry, I’m still here. Magic The […]
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Permission to Rest
4 months. This place has been silent for 4 months. I wish I had some big reason for my absence. Instead, I have a hundred little ones but I’m not going to list them all here. All you need to know is that during a time of high stress, I pushed myself too hard to […]
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Welcome to Womanhood Tween Girl Maturation Kit
Sooo, I’m going to go a little out of the DIY orbit to focus on something a little different today. Periods. Yep, Maturation. Aunt Flo. Awkward? Nah, it doesn’t have to be! Sex ed teacher, say what? Little known fact, I have a degree in secondary health ed. I was supposed to be a high […]
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Where I Am Wednesday: Shiplap, Birthdays, & Bullies
Like I said last week, I’m trying to learn to embrace the process. In that vein, I thought I’d start a little occasional post series on here called Where I Am Wednesday… all about what I’m doing and where I am right now, in this moment. Sort of a mash up of everything going on, […]
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Creating Joy: Afterthoughts and Snapshots of 2015
In 16 short days a new year will begin, are you ready? As I try to prepare the last odds and ends before Christmas, I find myself thinking about the past 12 months and what I have learned. 2015 was my year to work on creating Joy in my life, my home, and my family. […]
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The Last Summer of the Littles
It’s been a little quiet around here the past couple months but so much has happened. No, there isn’t something big going on behind the scenes. Instead, my focus has been on something, or rather someone, quite small. You see, in 23 days my “season”, as my grandmother likes to call it, officially changes… my […]
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