September 2011

7 Quick Takes: September 29, 2011 (Vol. 98)

~ 1 ~ After several years of a closed photography business, I actually did a session (well, a two-in-one session) this past weekend.  While it was weird to be doing it again, it was for a very special reason.  I got to take senior pictures of one of my nieces and one of my nephews.  [...]

Best Dinner Ever

One particularly busy night last month, I proclaimed with an exhausted sigh, “We should just have popcorn and ice cream for dinner.”  It should come as no shock that the children thought this sounded like a wildly amazing idea.  My next statement didn’t come across as exciting, however. “I was joking.  We don’t even have [...]

For Judy

I began to write this post, and, in fact, wrote several paragraphs.  They were sad paragraphs.  A genuine, but truly heart wrenching, sharing about my dear friends (a married couple) who have now had to say goodbye to both of their mothers (both in their very early sixties) in the past two months, the most [...]

Organizing a Habitually Messy Area

My monthly post is up at The Happy Housewife.  This month, I’m sharing some tips for working on a habitually messy or disorganized area of your house. From the post… If you also have these kinds of issues, I suspect you hope that this is where I will come in and share my life-changing organization [...]

Many Little Links: September 25, 2011

What to Wear When You Travel – Simple Mom What a fabulous tutorial from Tsh about what she packs for trips of over a week.  I loved it! 6 Ways to Recycle Your Old Content – Blogging with Amy Loved these ideas that Amy shares for how to drive traffic to older posts on your [...]

7 Quick Takes: September 23, 2011 (Vol. 97)

~ 1 ~ We went apple picking this week.  We ended up taking home around 13 pounds of apples.  When you consider that our only real goal is to eat the apples, that’s probably a lot of apples to have.  I think that I might make an apple crisp this weekend, but other than that [...]

Busy Working on Listings

I have to admit that one of my biggest challenges with having an Etsy shop is just taking the time to take pictures, write up listings, and other logistical things like that. Because of that issue, I usually have several things just waiting to be listed. I’m still not caught up, especially considering that a [...]

September 2011: 12 of 12

Here is a glimpse of our life (and home) from Monday, September 12th: 1. I spent the weekend away at a scrapbooking bed and breakfast. I worked on paintings instead though! (I even got to help some friends work on their own paintings too.) 2. Aww…we love you too, Dad. Thanks for the dry erase [...]

10 Signs I’m Getting Older

1. Wrinkles – Sure, there aren’t a ton of them, but when I squint – they definitely are there.  Eric says, “Don’t squint like that then.” 2. Inability to Enjoy Carnival Rides – I used to love rides at the fair, especially things like the Tilt-A-Whirl and the Scrambler.  I have found, however, that in [...]

See You in One Week

I have decided to take a week off from blogging (at least as best as I can).  Short of when my Mom had emergency quadruple bypass surgery and when we took care of my dying Grandma, I don’t really remember taking a break of more than a few days.  So, this is a challenge for [...]

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