cultivating me

Not only am I learning to let go but I am also still learning to let my kids do things their own way. Today I had the perfect opportunity to practice. Last year, my daughter asked me if she could paint her room. Since I believe kids have very few spaces that are unregulated and [...]

I was trying to think of a cute introduction to this post but let’s just cut to the chase shall we? My husband snores and not in the sort of quiet it makes you giggle because he fell asleep in a big comfy chair kind of snore. It’s more like a hibernating bear kind of [...]

You know the saying “It’s the greatest invention since sliced bread!”. Have you ever really thought about it? No? Really? Never? Hmmm – would you think me weird if I have? Wait don’t answer that. I actually have thought about that saying recently, quite often in fact. What the big deal with sliced bread? How [...]

The strangest thing happened to me today. Oprah would have called it an “A – ha! Moment” My daughter is 14 and starting High School this year. I don’t want to talk about – I’d like to live in Denial just a tad bit longer mmkay? We are still undecided about whether or not she [...]

From the back cover:  In the wake of personal tragedy, two people meet on a humanitarian mission in Peru.  Christine is a shy, unadventurous woman whole fiance broke off the engagement only a week before the wedding, and Paul is a former emergency room doctor whose glamorous lifestyle, stellar reputation and a beautiful finace are  [...]

Kim @ Up North Mommy has started taking Sunday Drives each week as a way to help remind herself to slow down and enjoy the world around us. This week, I decided to play along. Kim lives in some pretty beautiful wide open spaces – go take at look at the pictures she posted from [...]

I was watching TV earlier today and saw a little factoid flash across the screen: “Losing one pound will remove 4 pounds of pressure on your knees.” This stop me in my tracks. Really? 4 pounds of pressure? WoW! I could totally benefit from that. My right knee has been acting up recently aching while [...]

I picked a winner at random or more accurately, RANDOM.ORG picked a number randomly: Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 84 Timestamp: 2008-08-02 01:47:44 UTC YAY! for commenter number #84! WOO HOO – oh wait, what’s that? You want to actually like to know the person behind number 84…..well okay if you insist! [...]

I know I’m not supposed to take it personally. I know that she’s only 14 and not totally aware of the effect that she has on me. I know that she doesn’t really mean it. I know that she gives me the attitude because I am the one that is here. But…at times….I do take [...]