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This Week. Feeling ALL the Pressures.
On December 23rd I closed my computer. I set it inside a cabinet and I left it there. That was the best. Five days later, I wish I could never see it again. That’s how I am feeling right now. At the same time, I put up my calendar and my lists and my little notebook where I write down…
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five finds friday (mustaches & embroidery)
If I repeat myself over here week to week, I’m going to ask you all to forgive me. Maybe it’s old age, adult ADHD or too many distractions, but my memory is just not too impressive of late. Plus, I’m writing this while also “watching” Home Alone 2 with the kids and occasionally I have to watch the nonsense on…
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In Praise of Small Homes
Would I like a six bedroom house? Definitely. Would I have a stellar good time decorating and rearranging those extra bedrooms? Absolutely. Based on what I know thus far in my life and what I suspect will happen in the future, will I be living in a six bedroom house? Probably not. For most of my adult life I have…
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five finds friday (what do you wear with leggings?)
You should know that this post has been powered by the mass consumption of my friend Jo’s homemade caramels. This week has felt about nineteen days long. Let’s try to do this thing ….. funny Both Bergen and Mosely had appointments at the eye doctor this week. (I like ours – he’s a really nice guy.) Standing in the lobby,…
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these days ….
Every single day someone at our house says something about how none of us can believe that it is December. The year that crawled by also flew by. I can never explain it. Amid ALL THE THINGS, I am finding it nearly impossible to write over here. I’m also not making any more progress on my book. I was afraid…
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five finds friday (the one about writing a book and my daughter going to college)
We’ve made it. Cheers and high fives because it’s been a long week. But look – wasn’t the beach beautiful? funny I’ve been working my way through a couple of boxes in the attic that are stuffed to overflowing with keepsakes and memories. And I keep finding gems like this. Behold the glory of ALL of our haircuts. What a…
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The Things That We Keep Doing
It doesn’t matter if I am suffering from writer’s block or insomnia, if the laundry gets finished or the meals are full of protein and vitamin-rich choices. Whether those things happen or those things don’t happen, Life Keeps Marching Along. Last weekend Saylor turned one. We celebrated with cake and streamers and sunshine. We drove to the beach for a…
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motivation. can you locate it?
When the kids were little, they used to love to repeat certain phrases. Usually these would be some combination of words they had heard on a show or in a book, words they had made up and lyrics from a song. Generally the combination ended up being nonsensical to adult ears, but completely understandable in their kid language. One phrase…
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Five Finds Friday (a whole lot of photos)
Remember these? It seems that Friday is here – and so am I. And I’ve got a bunch of cute photos so I might overstuff this post with them. You’ve been warned. funny There was a lot of funny to choose from this week. Halloween brought some clever costumes. But no costume anywhere beats the one that my friend Katie…
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I’m over here …
Our power went out last week. (Like more than a hundred thousand other folks.) This website went down last week. (I didn’t have the time or ability to address the situation until today.) I spent some time this weekend being sad about a handful of things and life is just like that, right? Today I read this old post about…
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I just want to do it all.
And also. I want to do nothing. Is this the human condition? Or is this just the working mom condition? Or the pandemic year condition? It’s a painfully beautiful afternoon and I’m sitting on my deck and I have my lists spread out around me and those lists have sublists (but NOT outlines, I hate those suckers) and my kids…
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Thinking Putty: A Timberdoodle Review
This is a sponsored post. I received this item from Timberdoodle in exchange for an honest review. These thoughts and words and opinions are, as always on this page and in real and regular life, all completely and totally my own. __________________________________ You’ve probably heard of this before – thinking putty. It’s like a new take on Silly Putty. Except,…
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a little this, a little that
I wouldn’t actually want to live a life that went in a steady straight line. Steady straight lines aren’t really my thing. But this month – this past week – I’ve been bumping and trotting along a hundred little paths. Here are some of those paths and where they’ve been leading: I’m working with two very talented local artists to…
