Self-Awareness
Pretty Thrifty
July 12, 2009
{mid July bouquet: gracing the top of my "new" fruit cart} I don't like shopping. Shopping is not recreation, it's a chore. I think I partly feel this way because I like to spend money in keeping with my values. When you stop to analyze purchases*; where it was made, ...
A thoughtful blue day with sunny beach photos
June 21, 2009
I'm kind of blue today, melancholy I guess would be the right word. Yesterday we celebrated Damien's 37th birthday and it was a wonderful day. And today is Father's Day, as you all know, but I don't get to be with my own dad (who lives 12 hours away) and ...
Breaking up with Flickr
June 2, 2009
In an attempt to actually walk-the-talk of simple living I've deleted my flickr photostream. If you follow my flickr activity you may have noticed I haven't done much for a the past month and now that's permanent. Why? Basically I don't have enough time to keep up with it all. ...
a little longer while I detox
May 16, 2009
You'll all have to wait a little longer for that much anticipated salad post because I was just too tired today to finish it. You see I'm weaning myself off my afternoon cup of black tea. I didn't realize how much of hit it gave me, it's just tea after ...
Mother's Day weekend - the photos
May 11, 2009
I just wrote a 6 paragraph (I think) post on the wonderfulness of this weekend. By accident I clicked "something" and lost everything I wrote. Oh my goodness that frustrates me. So what was going to be a post with photos and words is now just a post with photos. ...
A better May day
May 5, 2009
Today was a day of home & hearth, I: got up at 6:30, read my RSS, e-mail, enjoyed my morning coffee and was done on the computer before the kids were up at 7:30 read the Bible with the kiddos, listened to Gershwin tunes played on a svelte clarinet while ...
May Day
May 2, 2009
May Day. I wish it was a day dancing around the maypole, braiding colorful ribbons. Instead I spent the wet & overcast morning removing the 1930's original wallpaper from the girl's bedroom. And this afternoon we had to make a follow up visit to the dentist to fix Brienne's new ...
