The weekend was gray and drippy and those are not two of my favorite words in describing a weekend. But still, I was grateful for school duties to be put on hold and work to take a backseat. Saturday was an early morning meeting about upcoming new kitchen counters – wood counters crafted by a local couple that I am thrilled to have in our house.  The fancy faucet is waiting in its box in my bedroom.  If you think that sounds boring, I disagree.  I’ve never been so intrigued by a kitchen faucet in my life.  I spent a ridiculously long time pondering options – at Lowe’s and online.…

I didn’t make any actual resolutions because follow through is not my jam. Kidding.  Kind of. Small steps, little changes, have generally had more longevity in my own life. This is one of those. Just a teeny tiny little thing. I started putting this one into practice sometime in October.  I like to do that.  Not share with you guys something I have just decided to do, but instead share something I have already been doing.   Because, follow through.   (I need to give it a few months to see if I will actually do it.) This one is going to be simple, maybe a little too simple. This…

I won’t pretend to try to keep up with all the holiday happenings and shenanigans.   I will say that we were out of school for the better part of three weeks and I didn’t spend any day where I thought, “I have gobs of extra time here” and yet I didn’t write anything for this blog and I barely worked  for Travelers Rest Here and I didn’t teach school – Wildwood or Meadowlark – and we didn’t take any big traveling adventure. What on earth did we do?  We did rest.  And we did celebrate the holidays in lots of our favorite ways and traditions.  It was beautiful to…

What a long delicious break it was. It was a break from writing because I needed it.  But it was also a break from writing because the back end of the my website has been All Kinds of Wonky and frankly, I’m still not certain it’s performing at peak level currently.  Whatever peak level is. Peak level to me basically means – I type and the words look accurate on the page through no skill set of my own. So we can consider this post a wee bit of a test.   I want to see if a picture shows up where I ask it to. Which is here. And…

It’s been a week. Which is a phrase that, if someone else said it, I might laugh.  Because, well, yeah – of course it’s been a week.  That’s how time works. It seems that this particular Christmas is the sort of Christmas where I’ve said, “Oh – we were supposed to go look at lights? Hmm.  Maybe we won’t get to that this year.  Oh what’s that you say?  Making homemade ornaments from applesauce and cinnamon like we used to do when you were little?  Uh – I guess we can do that ….. another day.  Our annual Winter Solstice Hike?  Man, it sure is raining.  A lot.” Is that…