In the midst of a snowy week I am enjoying some optimistic signs of spring. Most of my little birds are returning to the nest for a nice long hang. Like rays of sunshine poking through the grey, sleety skies they're gathering as we speak. By Thursday night, we'll have a nice big group to [...]
I’m taking my gratitude in small doses this year, like the kind of spoon sipping you do as you prepare a special meal. We won't have the whole gang around the table this time, but I plan to fill the empty chairs with happy memories. I believe laughter and love ingrain themselves in the wood [...]
Although Molly B's name is no longer part of this blog, her presence definitely is. It wafts up the stairs of our house trailing delicious smells from the oven. It rests lightly on a new cutting board, patiently cooling while we stand near, forks at the ready, drooling. Molly has been home on winter break [...]
I know I should have jumped out of bed and gotten right to 2018, but New Year's Day dawned cozily around our house and so I sipped my tea, slipped on my comfy slippers and savored it. And now, more than a week later, I have yet to make a single resolution. In the interest [...]
Everyone has a Christmas Camelot -- that magical moment when you look around a room filled with all the people you love and your heart swells so big it nudges the tear ducts in your eyes. This year, our Christmas Camelot happened midway through the holidays on a frigid Thursday in Cecil, Wisconsin. Smoke curled [...]