This is what I want the toy section of our playroom/office to look like all the time. When I bought the Melissa & Doug kitchen set I imagined Abby playing with it for hours on end. Instead,this is what it looks like: For hours on end. Not pretty. Just pretty messy. This is what my [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Play in Abbyland
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged messy office, play on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Learning to Nourish a Marriage
Posted in marriage, tagged marriage on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Learning to Nourish a Marriage “This can’t be good for you, you already have so little time to yourself. You’re going to lose yourself completely in your mothering!” came the swift return response from a friend. It was my 43rd birthday, and I’d just sent out a group e-mail announcing the positive results of a [...]
An Angel Story
Posted in angels, tagged angels on May 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I grew up in a home where guardian angels were as real to me as each of my nine siblings. As I child, I felt a sense of peace knowing that I had my own personal angel watching over me. Later, as a mother, I have continued praying to angels each night for help watching [...]
The Real Me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged photoshop, real me on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Interesting concept; authenticity, especially in light of the photography program my son just discovered. Here is the photo I have been submitting with essays and articles Not bad. But here I am after the program got through with me; Me? Only better? I think for now I’ll stick with the real me, flaws and all.
Being Real
Posted in Uncategorized, writing, tagged Christina Katz, Prosperous Writer on May 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This week in her Prosperous Writer newsletter, ( http://christinakatz.com/ ) author Christiana Katz asks us to blog about authenticity. As a writer, one of the most important things we can do is to find our voice. It took me many years and more mistakes to find mine. In college I didn’t need a voice to write [...]
Called to write
Posted in writing, tagged Anne Lamott, writing on May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The May/June 2010 Writer’s Digest magazine published an interview with Anne Lamott (of Bird by Bird fame) in which she is quoted “I really believe people are called to a literary life like others are called to a theological life or a religious life, but publishing is a business that is really hard. Hard on [...]
Books, Books, Books
Posted in book sale, tagged book sale, vintage children's books on May 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I am sure the book-lovers have been waiting with bated breath to see what I got this morning. I’ve been attending this sale every May since I was pregnant with Abby, and she will be 7 this summer. That year, books sold for $5 a bag, and I filled 10-15 bags. Now the bags go [...]
More magnificent mess
Posted in book sale, tagged book sale on May 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished sorting and putting away the things from my last shopping spree. Some went in the Christmas box, some in a tote for my next garage sale, some in our own cupboards. And what do I do? Go shopping. Today was the big annual book sale in Dubuque, with proceeds going towards the [...]
One Reason Why Not Everyone Does This Couponing Gig
Posted in coupons, tagged coupons on May 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Why doesn’t everyone do this? That is one of the questions I ask myself when I am walking out the door of a store with a cartload of merchandise that I only paid a few dollars for. Perhaps this is one of the reasons they don’t: What this is, is the spoils of war. The [...]
A Surprise Box
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dolls, surprise on May 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
During my husband’s 2006 bout with cancer a pen-pal sent me several boxes of things to sell as a way to help us out financially. The first box arrived on a day when David and I were both gone for what would be a long day at the cancer center where he was getting radiation [...]
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