There are so many great blogs out there. I just wanted to introduce you to a few favorites this week. I’m trying to give you a little bit of everything. Check out these lovely writings from this week: Chocolate Whoopie Pies anyone? Check out Happy Together’s simple recipe here. Anne from Modern Mrs. Darcy has a free e-book for all of us looking to spring clean our homes. Go here to find out how you can get it. She {Read More}
Insta-Week
March 30, 2012 By 3 Comments
Here are a few moments from the last week. Enjoy your weekend! Tigger visited us all morning - on an 80 degree day. Tigger continued the morning outside in the dirt. Play date with friends. They had a ball! Planted some grass from the produce department in a 50 cent thrifting find. Worked a bit more on reupholstering our mid-century modern couch. It was too beautiful to be sewing inside, so we brought it outside. Getting my creative juices {Read More}
Tears of Pain and Joy
March 29, 2012 By 10 Comments
The same day I get a new hairstyle that celebrates a time of renewal in my life my Mom found out she’s losing her hair. All of it. To chemo. A few years ago I had to have parts of my head shaved for brain surgery & had a horrible time with my hair growing back. I looked like Joe Dirt and felt so awkward. I cannot imagine what she and other people going through chemo feel. Cancer scares {Read More}
Playing Favorites
March 29, 2012 By 1 Comment
The Old Way Wasn’t Cutting It: Sportin’ the New Bangs
March 28, 2012 By 5 Comments
I did it. I went for bangs and love them! For weeks I kept throwing my hair across my forehead trying to picture what they would look like. I texted photos to my friend and hairstylist (Lynn @ Salon 297 if you’re local - our whole family goes to her) and she played with them a little bit to make them completely “V” (my nickname). I have to admit I pass by the mirror and do a double-take. Now when {Read More}
Greatness in Blogland this Week
March 24, 2012 By 4 Comments
I just want to share with you three of my favorite blog posts from this week. We’re off to return some of my favorite library books today and visit with my Mom. If you’re waiting for the sun to dry the wet ground, check out these posts…. Lyndsey from Pen and Paint is offering this beautiful free printable download on her blog. (Formerly known as Paint Me A Picture) Just click here to go to her post and download it! She {Read More}
Going Green with the Roots of Jealousy
March 22, 2012 By 1 Comment
I want what you have. I want your new car, your big house or the ministry you have. I want your thin legs. I want your spending money, but I don’t want to give up what I have. I just want it all. Do you ever feel like this? Staring at others’ lives and wanting what they have. Jealousy is bitter. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. ~ James 3:16 {Read More}
Enjoying Every Minute
March 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Enjoying Every Minute…. Well, maybe not every minute, but I sure have been taking advantage of the unseasonably warm weather here in Michigan. I’m sitting in my living room with a tank top and skirt feeling the breeze blow through the house. Relaxing, Beautiful, Much needed. So, if I’m missing from the blogging world for a few days it’s because I’m biking to the grocery store with my kids, making fresh salsa, reading the book I got for Christmas and {Read More}
Rock Star Surfer Hair
March 19, 2012 By 2 Comments
Yep, my son has what we call “surfer hair”. The hair that swooshes off to the side and seems awfully too long to the people in my parent’s generation. I love it. It doesn’t seem to bother him and it fits his personality. We keep going back and forth on how it should look. The kid’s hair grows fast. We can’t keep up with hair appointments, so he inadvertently ended up with long hair. Now I can’t let go. What {Read More}
Healing the Hoarder in Me….
March 14, 2012 By 1 Comment
My good old buddy James (did I mention that I am in the Beth Moore Bible study on James?) challenged me this week on my hoarding tendencies. Not extreme hoarding, but hoarding in the standards that I keep things “just in case” I want it in 10 years. There are people that can’t clothe their children but I still have buckets of favorite baby items just in case we have another. Sad, I know. So, I’m challenging our family to {Read More}
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