Doug, one of my husband’s roommates in college, when he was asked how his day went would often respond, “It was tough, but it was good.” We used to chuckle at his response, but really there’s a lot of truth to be found in his attitude. I chose a word for this year: JOY I …
Since my last post was the post where I admit I was wrong, maybe this one should be the post where I admit I am late! I hope I’m not the only one that has let something go far too long. I’m really good with deadlines. But when there isn’t an exact deadline, then sometimes …
If you read blogs, I’m sure you’ve seen them. The posts where people choose one word to represent their yearly theme. I’ve always thought those were a neat idea, but the perfectionist in me has trouble picking just one word. How can one word stand for everything I want to do? As I think back …
I know you should never start a blog post with a comment on how long it’s been since you’ve blogged. So I won’t. But life has been busy and while ideas for blog posts have popped into my head, I’ve not found time to get them written. So today in an effort to get the …
I love to try new recipes, but there’s something about holidays that calls me back to our traditional favorites. There are some recipes that I only make for special occasions, and I think that makes them that much more special. One of my traditional Thanksgiving favorites is a pumpkin roll. I got this recipe from …
Here’s my recipe for sweet potato casserole. It’s from my aunt, but I think it’s a fairly common recipe. Ingredients Casserole 5 or 6 large sweet potatoes (2- 29 oz cans) 2 eggs 1 cup sugar 1 tsp. vanilla 1 stick or butter or margarine -softened (can use 3/4 stick) 1 tsp. salt 1 ts.p cinnamon …
We have for the last several years played host for Thanksgiving dinner for my husband’s family. It’s not a huge group of people (it usually just adds 5 people to our family), so it’s not that difficult. But it’s still a LOT more side dishes than I usually make for a typical meal. I started …
Six years ago this morning I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Nine months earlier, I found out I was pregnant from the surgeon who had removed my gall bladder the week before. He was very concerned (near panicked) when he called me to tell me the news. The day before, at my post-op …
I’ve always thought alphabet memes were fun, so when I found out that Marcy at Ben and Me was starting over on hers, I marked my calendar. And I still missed the A week, because… Read the title. Busyness. Whoa. We started back to school, and I’m working part time, and it’s cross country season …
We started school on Monday. We started without fanfare. We started without a special breakfast. We started without taking pictures of the first day of school. And even though I am reasonably certain that my oldest 3 children would not even want any of those things, it still bothers me. It’s one of the disadvantages …
