A Few Minutes on the Friendship
Here’s a little inside look at our favorite ship in Salem! You can read all about her here. There are wonderful ranger guided tours, but, since we have our own ranger we like to stop in and look...
View ArticleFamily meals inspire cook to do the same for his young twins : Stltoday
I love this post by Pat Eby for the St Louis Post Dispatch and thought it would make a great share for today. In our family the center point is our dinner together, it’s that simple. We come and go …...
View ArticleA Painting Story
In the beginning there was a garage full of furniture that needed to be painted (along with 1,555,698 other things)… Then there was paint… and a great painter! and wonderful helpers! and more help… and...
View ArticleRecent Holiday Moments
Hello out there! I miss you!! Just like everyone else, I’ve been so busy with Christmas and lots and lots of people in my house that I haven’t had a chance to post anything. Where did a week go? It’s...
View ArticleThings That Work For Me— My Pink Bench
Good Morning Everyone! I have decided to do a weekly winter series called “Things That Work For Me”… Lots of people have questions and queries about how I manage our household of seven. It’s a...
View ArticleThings That Work For Me–TV Turnoff Time
This week’s “Things That Work For Me” post could really be titled “Things That Work For Us”. Every family has their own approach to the television’s place in their home from “its on all the time” to...
View ArticleFinancial Aid Forms vs Garden Blogging
I’m stuck again. Darn it! I have a nice long list of blog post ideas sitting here on my desktop and I cannot gather my thoughts, let alone photos, words or sentences to write about any of them. As I …...
View ArticleThings That Work For Me-The Flylady
I haven’t done a “Things That Work For Me” Post in a while, but I woke up (at 4am, but that’s another post) thinking about the Flylady and my need to start following her again. Have you heard of her? …...
View ArticleThe “new normal”
I read an article in the Boston Globe Magazine today by former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky about his experience during the marathon bombings and the idea that many, if not all of us, will live at a...
View ArticleCamping At the Beach~
We love to spend time family camping so early this week we spent a night on site 27 at Winter Island, the coveted first spot right next to the beach! It was wonderful to fall asleep on Sunday night...
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