Do you ever just hit a point in your life where you realize how truly lucky you are?  I feel so blessed right now.  Its been a good (busy!) week and every day I’ve thought about how wonderfully lucky I am.  David and I are probably the happiest we’ve ever been, our house is absolutely [...]

Now, I’m making fun of this recipe that I found online, but its actually very good!
To make sangria: mix equal parts orange soda and cheap red wine, then put in a squirt of lemon juice.
To fancy it up a bit, you can add any other fruit flavored liquor you have.  I added a good sized [...]

Killy had his best friend over for a playdate today.  The two of them (plus Ellie!) put on their sunglasses and played “Rock Star,” which prettymuch consists of them playing air guitar while Ellie dances and claps.  The cuteness was nearly overwhelming!

Ellie loved on the baby a lot, and he was very tolerant of her [...]

I get upset fairly often, feeling like my house is a pigsty and just awful.  And then I spend about 1 hour cleaning it, and it looks great again!  I need to realize that my house is not truly filthy or gross when an hour of work gets it back to great condition.  Just another [...]

accomplishments today: planted two blueberry bushes in front of the house, planted kale, mustard greens, jalepeno peppers, and bell peppers in the garden, worked out, mowed the lawn, did some laundry
what I did not accomplish: cleaning house, cooking
Oh, well – you win some and you loose some, right?
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I was thinking about it this week… during the winter I quilted like crazy.  Now that its warm outside my quilting is going much slower because I’m spending a lot of time gardening.  I’m finding that spending a good chunk of time outside working during the day makes it a lot easier for me to [...]

We started planting in our veggie garden today!  I”m still a couple weeks ahead of the frost-date, but I think it’ll be fine so I took my chances.  (And if there is a frost that kills everything, I’ll only be out about $6!)  Today we planted: 1/3 row sweet basil, 2 spaghetti squash groups, 2 [...]