I grabbed this meme from Shannon. What do you like most about where you live? The open spaces — the high ceilings and openness of my house, the openness of the yards in our neighborhood, the country roads and farms that makeup the area around us.  And yet the shopping, culture, and history of a [...]

Don’t you just HATE. IT. when you fall for a marketing ploy?? I love to shop and consider myself pretty savvy when it comes to discerning the value of marketing promotions. I know when to take advantage of the offer and when to turn it down. For example, when the basic tee-shirt is $10.50 or [...]

The kids are growing and changing before our very eyes these days.  The Little Guy had his first "sleepover" last weekend.  We had arrived home from our trip to Maine, and before we even got into the house, the little neighbor boy from two doors down bounded over with an invitation to his 7-year birthday [...]

My mom always quoted that when we arrived home from a vacation.  Isn’t it funny how things like that come back to you? So we’re home and trying to regroup.  After a 12-and-a-half hour car ride down the East coast that began at 4am on Saturday morning.  Make of that what you will. I feel [...]

I woke up this morning to the aroma of cinnamon and rising yeast.  That means Mom is making homemade cinnamon rolls, my grandmother’s recipe, a family tradition on holidays but an extra special treat on vacation! And while we wait for them to come out of the oven, I’m sitting in a big laz-y-boy beside [...]

said the Little Guy after his first tube ride…

Theirs is the typical love-hate relationship shared by siblings, born out of familiarity and close living quarters.  It’s moments such as these that every mother treasures, when the squabbles are temporarily forgotten and love abounds, if only for a few precious minutes.

My brother joined us here in Maine a few nights ago, and the Princess was sitting on his lap, getting reacquainted with her uncle the first night he got here. She reached up to touch his goatee at one point and said, "Why do you have this beard?" He said, "I don’t know.  Do you [...]