Today, I’ve exchanged posts with one of my favorite bloggers, Heidi Cave of Fancy Feet. You can read her favorite post of mine, I Never Thought I’d Wear Sunglasses over on her site, and below you will find my favorite post (or one of them) of hers, Summer. As a quick intro… When I first started…
Tag Archive: I Love My Friends
Love at the Bridge
Blue ribbons in support of the Donaldsons – and a tree for Christmas: Kim from Mosey Along and her sister, Lianne wanted to do something for our good friend Anna and her family this holiday season. “Since we both love photography and have been so touched hearing how the Donaldsons’ friends and neighbours having been using…
On Gratitude. And Magic.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and like most others, I’ve been thinking about gratitude. A couple of months ago, my good friend, Anna lost her twelve year old son in a flash flood. And it was yet another reminder to live in the moment – be grateful for everything I have right now, this very minute. I thought I…
Mission Possible? (Alternatively Titled: Bieber Fever for Fortysomethings)
UPDATE below if you’ve already read this! I have to confess – I saw pictures of Justin Bieber in US Weekly magazine long before I ever heard any of his music. And the only opinion I’ve ever had on his fame is that people are CRAY-CRAY with all of that hate/death to Bieber stuff. He’s just a…
If you read nothing else today…
I need to get back to my “Monday Links” – though that would require catching up on my blog reading… Definitely this week. Look for links on Monday. For today? There is only one. The Bridge: One Terrible Night This is a gift. An HonestBeautifulTerrible gift. No comments on this one – you can leave…
Segue into…
I hate abrupt changes of subject. Not so much the change in topic…maybe just the tone. Don’t get me wrong – I’m all about the tangent. So that’s fine. But one minute crying about serious matters - the next minute laughing about inconsequentials? It just doesn’t feel right to me. So before I get back to my typical…
Loss
All week I’ve meant to post something here. I’ve got pictures and anecdotes and any number of frivolous items to relate…but I can only think about one thing today. A good friend just lost her beautiful 12 year old son. It’s awful. When you read about loss, it makes you sad. But when it’s someone…
My Second trip to San Diego this Summer…
…was very different from the first. A friend (I think it was Christy) once told me that you go on trips with your children and take vacations without them. So as much as I loved my first “trip” to San Diego this summer, my second visit proved this sentiment to be apt. Because that is…
The Fab Five (Bloggers, That Is…)
Thanks to Trop 50 for sponsoring my writing about fabulous bloggers. This year Trop50 is granting 50 fabulous wishes. Click here to enter for a chance to win $1,000 to help grant a friend’s wish! Today, I’m participating in another Clever Girls Collective organized sponsorship. What made this immediately appealing to me is that it…
I’m So Full of It – But I Know Other People Who Make Things Happen…
After last week’s big announcement about my quest for self actualization in 2011, I find that I have nothing new to report. But hey – it’s only been a week. Barely enough time think about when I should start thinking about planning to do something about my need for personal definition. It’s early days yet….
Mother to three children (four if you count my husband), keeper of a moderately sane house, admirer of beautiful interiors and fashion that becomes more and more "young" for me, textile junkie and believer in the power of wishing really, really hard. I wage a daily battle against feet on furniture, "outside voices" inside, the ever widening chasm between now and "when I used to work," wrinkles, a lack of personal time, dust and the constant arrows that having a special needs child shoots directly into one's heart. So far dust and wrinkles are winning, but only because even the best of multitaskers have their limits.