Category: life

  • Small packages…

    I received a special little something in the post over the summer and I am quite proud of myself for keeping it secret for this long! My very FIRST published pattern!!! A very proud moment for me. One that I hope to repeat many times over!  🙂 Of course this special moment would not be complete…

  • So long!

    Hair today……. Gone tomorrow! Sorry….I just couldn’t resist!   😉

  • Nine years and counting…

    Saturday, I surprised my husband with a Special Day Away…just the TWO of us! It was our 9 year wedding anniversary on Tuesday but with a full work week and three kids, we didn’t find the time to celebrate properly. We didn’t even exchange cards. I had my sister come over for a sleepover Friday…

  • Monday Replay…

    We’ve been in this house a year now and it reminds me of this post I wrote back in July of 2007. Where does time go??? Thursday, July 5, 2007 passing the symbol… well, today was a very eventful day. my folks watched the kiddo’s all day so Jason and I could get what was…

  • Sunday Snippets…

  • I see skies of blue…

    It’s the last day of color week and today is blue. There is plenty to go around when the sky peaks through the clouds. This week has actually made me more aware of the things around me. Taking notice of the little things that I normally overlook and in turn, take for granted. Soaking up…

  • does this look like the face of a 30 year old?

    ……………… good answer. thirty years ago today, the U.S.S.R. performed nuclear tests at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.Ringo released his “Ringo the 4th” album.and my mother was relieved of her 12 thousand hour labor with me. this is not a big deal, people. it’s not.I know a hand full of people who have made it to thirty…

  • slowing down

    staying home to raise my 3 young children has caused me to reach down deep within my self and re-discover things that I have ALWAYS yearned to do and create, but never had time for before. how funny that having children would create more “time” for myself? time to ponder and reflect…and imagine again. just…