Keeping warm with a knitted scarf

I'm not a big fan of our front door. I think it's boring. But because there are no windows when you step inside our hallway, there are not a lot of options on improving our front door. We need the glass in our front door to shed some light into the darkness. Front door wreath:...

Have you been struggling to fit it all in? Applauding your kids at their soccer games, their piano lessons, their ballet performance and at their school play? When at the same time you have to keep the house running and show up at your job in time? I have the solution! And her name is...

On Sunday night of april the 26th my father died. He had cancer, so his death stopped his suffering. But I still miss him... Finding comfort I'm finding comfort in my daily runs, and this beautiful poem that's widely attributed to Mary Elizabeth Frye: 'Do not stand at my grave and weep,  I am not...

  Wat is really only a week ago that I slathered my arms with sunscreen to protect myself from the sun?  It's seven days later and temperatures have dropped dramatically.

After plouging my way through the first three seasons, I had finally found a good reason to keep watching Game of Thrones: Jaime Lannister. Game of Thrones: lots of political backstabbing in the dark For those of you who don't know Game of Thrones: it's an HBO series with lots of violence, sex and about...

Failing to plan, is planning to fail, the saying goes. But how about just planning to fail? Planning for failure My youngest son has to do a book report this year, and unlike his two older brothers he's already carefully planning for it. 'I chose Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, mommy,' he smiled....