Coasting Along

Many bloggers are talking about the Kim family right now, and their ordeal. I was so happy to hear that the Kims' little girls were safe...

Here's my journal page for December 7...the theme is Christmas shopping. This year's shopping list peeks out of the pocket. I feel l...

I'm home doing boring housewifey stuff today, but here's Day 6 of my Christmas journal. Today's prompt was to write about a goo...

Here are my Christmas journal pages for December 3, 4, and 5. This page features an old Christmas card. You open up the card to read the jo...

Here's my tiny kitchen tree that I put up a few days ago. And I got a nice ornament picture in the late sunshine today. Can you tell I...

Being a semi-rational adult human female, I understand that all worthwhile things take time, that the journey is just as important as the de...

So I decided to take a month-long "Journal Your Christmas" class online, through Shimelle Laine's website . I took a mini albu...

Here's the holiday project I did with my at-home class on Friday morning. The idea came from Ali Edwards' blog and the e-zine she pu...

This week I pushed through my Christmas malaise and got the tree up. I think it's the prettiest tree I've ever done. We haven't ...

I have a few decent pictures from Thanksgiving...if I ever master the art of taking pictures of kids and adults in ever-moving groups in ind...

Today's blog challenge at Two Peas: Blog about your favorite holiday movie. I have two faves, one classic and one more modern. But they ...

Well, things are in motion today. I went and picked up supplies for my Friday class, and realized that if I'm having class and Todd is h...

How was everybody's Thanksgiving? Mine was sort of blah and depressing. I cooked a big dinner, but it was depressing doing it all by mys...

I woke up early this morning, and it's still raining! What a turn the weather took this week--cold and rainy and gray--perfect November,...

I'm loving this long slow slide into middle age, and how the angle keeps getting steeper, oh, every week or so. I started stitching a Ch...

Today's blogging challenge at Two Peas: 1- your worst habit? Procrastination. 2- your best feature? I guess my toes are kind o...

What a gorgeous fall day we're having here today. This afternoon Todd blew and I raked leaves and twigs down the yard to the edge of the...

This is a rough piece I wrote a few weeks ago...it was sort of a late-night insomnia session. It's not polished, but I wanted to get it ...

I have just about had it with this perpetual headache. I don't know if it's an artifact from my cold of two weeks ago, or if it'...

A couple more backyard pics...the red leaves of our little dogwood tree, and the view from our dining room. The picture doesn't half do ...