It’s the first Monday of October – fall is in the air, my favorite season is here, and my favorite holidays are looming – life is good! Since it is Monday, that, of course, means music! This week’s theme is “Pick a song or build a playlist of your favorite rock songs from any decade.”…
Monday has arrived, we’ve been enjoying gorgeous weather here in the Pacific Northwest (can you believe it? no rain over the weekend, and none predicted in the 10-day forecast) and this weekend was the 100th Celebration of Egg Days here in my tiny town. More on that tomorrow. Meanwhile, Monday means music, so let’s get…
It’s time once again for some Friday fill-in fun, the perfect way to wrap up the week and kick off the weekend! From Ann of McGuffy’s Reader: “The Friendly Fill-Ins are four fun and easy statements to complete. Ellen of 15andmeowing provides the first two statements and the final two are offered by myself. We try…
Day 2 into the kids’ summer break – is it wrong I’m already counting down the days until school starts again? I kid, I kid! Luckily (for them…and for me) the weather is outstanding for their first full week – 70’s and sunny! Those that think it always rains in the Seattle area, joke’s on…
I can’t believe it’s already the middle of summer! I’m still fruitlessly looking for that ‘pause’ button. We have been jonesin’ to get out on the water this summer, but everyone’s crazy schedules have prohibited that from happening. That and the weather – when schedules have been conducive, Mother Nature has not been in a…
Fifteen-and-a-half weeks. Just fifteen-and-a-half weeks and my baby girl will reach a milestone birthday that starts her in the double-digits. Which means she’ll become a Tween. I’m not sure I’m ready for that phase. How could time have passed by so quickly? It seems like yesterday she was like this: And now? This is a…
The one thing I don’t look forward to being a mom of a daughter is having The Talk. No, not that talk. I’m talking about the monthly cycle talk. That talk. Period. Though that ‘other’ talk isn’t far behind the period talk. Where’s that pause button? Growing up, my mom didn’t talk openly to us…
