Tyler recently started flex-time hours; he works from 7:30-5, with only a half hour lunch break, 9 week days then gets the 10th work ...

On  July 19th, at 6 in the very hot evening, on a little dock at Carol Ann Cross Park, in a small, sweet (and did I mention, hot?...

a quick & easy cotton lawn quilt for the LEM

'member when I said I was going for 'attainable perfection on this here garment ? Umm. I think I may have set my sights a...

We are mostly screen-free this summer. Jeremiah asked if they could watch a 'World's Toughest Fixes' episode. I said, ...

I was going to make something else for dinner,  but decided pizza sounded better. Darn it if I haven't spent 15 minutes trying to...

A few weeks (months?) ago,  my friend Sandy mentioned using a mix of Dawn dish soap and vinegar for cleaning some especially difficu...

Since the wedding didn't require a rehearsal dinner and Beasley effectively ruined any chance of a dinner after the wedding,  w...

$90 shoes, on clearance for $10 plus a bit of spray paint, glue, and glitter equal shoes fit for a princess. Or a bride. Same...

My kids think I'm a music-hater, but that's really not true. I'm just a noise -hater. The other day, Tyler was beating ...

That 'in between' period is a beast sometimes. In childbirth, and in life. Even good changes are painful, especially for o...

Surrounded by all of my children, grandchildren, and my mom and Bill, watching Jeremiah be baptized by his loving father, I thought...

I got a lot of sewing in this week. I started, and finished, a dress for me yesterday. Actually, that's not entirely tru...