It was Saturday night. I was in the kitchen, making some pancakes that could provide a quick breakfast the next morning before church. My two year old daughter, Maisie, sat on the counter, trying to dump out every container and lick every spoon. My seven year old daughter, Evie, stood nearby, watching. Her eyes […]
My maternal grandma passed away in September of last year. It feels more appropriate, in typed word, to use the word “grandmother”, but she wasn’t a grandmother. She was Grandma, 100%. In many ways, she wasn’t at all traditional. She liked to drink beer, which I remember shocked me
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Making my new vision board for the year is one of the absolute highlights of my January. I love thinking through the things I want to spend my time on, the goals I want to set, and the ideas I want to nurture. I’ve had years where I see a lot of what I envision
My word for last year, a word that encapsulates something I want to focus on and grow in, was beauty. And certainly, it was a good word to choose….I had one of my most beautiful years in decades. I spent more time enjoying coffee with my eyes closed, listening to birdsong, reading books, and laying
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It’s been a good long time since I posted anything, and that’s because a good many unexpected and surprising things happened at the end of 2024. This post is just a brief update on the changes in our lives, and what it means, especially for me and my blogging and painting, going forward. As many
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I love to begin the new year with a word to focus on, something that I want to intentionally keep in mind and build my life around. More often than not, the word I pick ends up being the very thing I struggle with the most, whether because I’m more aware of it or because
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It’s 2023! Are you used to writing it yet? I’m not. Then again, since the beginning of the year, we’ve battled a crazy, two-week…
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Maybe it’s because I’m always searching the internet for ways to be more and more frugal, but I frequently get offered articles with…
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My last post was June 23rd, and I can’t believe how many things have changed since then. It was June when I had finally resigned myself to staying in our home in Laveen. My husband and I had tossed around the idea of trying to buy a small piece of land somewhere in Arizona, but