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Grove Collaborative Giveaway: I’m Still a Fan
I’m starting to think that everyone I know already uses Grove Collaborative. Which is cool. And I don’t blame them. I’ve been partnering with this convenient little company since before they were even called Grove. I have loved it since I started working with them. The kids have grown used to their products too. I’m almost out of my…
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weekend ramblings (wrinkle in time & soccer photos & business talk)
It’s raining again and I can’t say I’m a fan. This weekend I spent Friday night finishing the sixth Harry Potter – by far my favorite and also the saddest and also just a satisfying read. Friday night also found me folding gobs of laundry – this time all my own, guess I had been letting it slide –…
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Five Finds Friday (NKOTB and words on a ring and butter mints)
This week Mosely acquired a Wii. Yep, we’re a handful of years behind on any technological advance. Which is exactly the pace I prefer. So I have allowed more screen time than normal and have seen more Mario Cart and Just Dance than I’m comfortable with. But I’m grateful they are satisfied and enjoy the delayed entrance into video…
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all the good words (that y’all said)
Man, when I asked earlier this week for you guys to share your lists of what does not get accomplished at your houses, at what waits for the “free time” that never comes, at what is on steady stand still around your place so that maybe I could feel better about the junk lists around my own house, y’all…
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A Beautiful Reminder: Holy Week Calendars
I’m always saying I have such talented friends. And it just keeps being true. Two such gifted friends have collaborated and have created a beautiful Holy Week Advent calendar. I wish I could say that I am intentional about talking to my kids about Easter in a planned or intentional way. I’m not. (In fact, I’m usually…
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What Never Gets Done: My Partial List
You guys. Y’all. Whatever the right word is. I need a Time Management tool. Or like one of those time turner things that Hermione uses in Hogwarts so she can attend more classes than she ought to. That is EXACTLY what I need. How on earth do people work forty plus hours away from their home and then ever…
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five finds friday (but not really five, because it’s been a long week)
It IS Friday – right? I don’t even know. I for real don’t even know. It’s been such a busy week and I haven’t had any time to write any words anywhere. And I forgot how that usually affects me – the not writing words part. Choosing to write routinely is really a pretty vital part of my keeping…
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weekend thoughts & ramblings like I do
Looking through my recent photos all I really see for the past twenty shots or so are work-related. A delicious dinner party at the new BBQ place. An artist teaching a watercolor class for veterans. Screenshots of kids I don’t know riding bikes on the Swamp Rabbit Trail. Specialty drinks at Rocket Surgery. A milkshake giveaway at our local…
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five finds friday
If you live inside my house, there is no better week than Break Week. It’s. The. Best. Early on in the break week I sent a text to my friend and said, “Why can’t I just stay home and do no work and hang out with my kids all day? Why isn’t that a thing?” Everyone is so much…
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these are the things he will do: Isaiah 42:6
I’ll miss this old front porch. (If I ever actually move from this house.) Today I’m sitting on this porch and reading these verses in the Bible. Isaiah 42. All of it. But especially verse 16. I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn…
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i like you . . .
I like you. A lot. I have been saying those words so routinely to my children for as long as they have been alive. And of course I am hoping that they are listening, hearing me. Knowing what I mean and how I mean it. But I seldom think about the idea that maybe other people are listening too.…
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february, could you please send some sun already?
Y’all. What I NEED is some sunshine. I can diffuse all the orange plus cedarwood plus lavender that I can buy (and you should too – it smells bright and cheery, unlike everything about February) but if some good old fashioned sun doesn’t start bursting forth from the clouds soon, I cannot guarantee the future of anything. It has…
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the charcoal face mask and my children
Life with children (or with any other humans actually) is unpredictable. No wonder they call it a roller coaster. One minute someone is laughing, one minute someone is crying. In one afternoon the living room is pristine tidy and smells like oranges and cloves and the next afternoon the living room is littered with magazines and blankets and smells…
