Practicing Gratitude. Celebrating Life.
Our youngest daughter’s birth mother is pregnant again. Words cannot express the anguish I feel even typing those words. Not even 1 year from her placement. Not even before our daughter turned one, she was pregnant again. My heart just breaks for her, this unborn child and of course my daughter. I cannot help but […]
The Waiting Place by Eileen Button is a collection of essays about what it means to find yourself in a waiting place—-that place of limbo just out of reach of where we want to be or feel we should be. Eileen’s writing is both humorous and tender. I laughed as much as I related in […]
I have an obsession with To Do Lists. Do you? There is something about writing my tasks down and then crossing them off that makes me feel happy inside…and productive. Whenever life starts to get a little overwhelming I turn to my lists—and suddenly all is right in the world. Or at least more manageable. […]
For Cutie Pie’s THIRD Birthday we threw her a TUTU TEA PARTY. This was the most perfect party theme for our little dancer. Every morning I find her wearing a tutu and performing somewhere in the house. There were several favors (because I also like to use them as part of the decor) including: Jellybean […]
One of my favorite outdoor spaces at our home is our Koi Pond. Tucked on the other side of the front entry few guests even realize it is there although you can hear the water pouring into the pond. We chose a raised pond design so that you could sit around the edge of the […]