If only…

At church on Sunday, one of the members played flute during service and I about died it was so good. Immediately, I wished I had never given up flute when I was younger. Which got me to thinking: if I had unlimited time and resources (don’t all great questions start this way), [...]

Smart Habit Saturdays

This has just been a crazy, crazy week. Schedules were out the window, and evidently most of my habits with them. Ugh. Sometimes I wonder about myself. Talk about a long, lonely road…

Anyway, the only habit I did keep up with this week was the pedometer. I wore it every step of every day for [...]

Happy Birthday, Emma!

And then there were 2…

Happy Birthday, Emster! We love you!

Wordless Wednesday

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My kingdom for a doorknob

I installed a doorknob today. All by myself. Go me! Here are some tips and things I learned along the way:

Gather all your tools before you start (in this case, a screwdriver set, a hammer, a new doorknob, and a copy of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice)

Don’t wear your favorite Phil Collins shirt, just in [...]

My testimony

I am a Christian.
I was raised in the Catholic Church and I currently attend a Methodist Church, but those are just denominations. In my (obviously liberal) opinion, no one denomination is the right one and each one has its own unique set of flaws. But the one thing that they have in common is that [...]

Enjoy it while it lasts

Aaaah. Spring. Spring has finally arrived here. The weekend was beautiful. The weather was beautiful. The kids were…pretty good. Having Dave home is beautiful. Sigh.

We spent the majority of the weekend outside because it was just so durn nice. We went to the park, we took walks, we played outside, we looked at all [...]

Smart Habit Saturdays

I am actually quite impressed with myself with how I did this week on respecting myself. It was a hard week with Dave being gone and all, but I hardly yelled at Jake, ate a lot better than I have been and got back into my reading habit. By no means perfect, but that’s not [...]

Wonder of wonders!!!

Honestly, in the 8 years that I have known Dave, I don’t know if this has ever happened before.
Dave is coming home EARLY!!! Granted, only 2 hours early, but that’s still amazing. He didn’t have one single flight delay today and when he got to Chicago, he was able to catch an [...]

Beautiful Banshee

O.K. Maybe banshee is a little bit harsh (i’m sure her screams aren’t warning us of an impending death), but my girl has got a set of lungs on her.
Call it a scream, call it a shriek, call it what you want. It’s loud. It’s high pitched (she once made a wine [...]