Yesterday, right before I left to walk the dog, I saw a post from my friend Kathleen. She had posted one of those amazing pictures of her feet next to a leaf that was shaped like a heart. I thought how lucky she was to catch that shape. As I stopped in our driveway to […]
Read moreWith the extra week of summer, this first day of school has been much anticipated by adults and children alike. Today the girls walked in to school as fifth and second graders for the first time. I was shocked, after what has been a lovely, but long summer, that I got a bit teary eyed as […]
Read moreEvery so often I dabble into the world of scrapbooking blogs. The downside of this is that I feel like a huge slacker whose children will have no recollection of their childhoods because I have done so little, by comparison, to document these childhoods. The upside is that I find all sorts of creative women […]
Read more“Suddenly, there is inner stillness. And within that stillness there is a subtle but intense joy, there is love, there is peace.” -Echart Tolle We found this little fellow at our local Botanical Garden, a small treasure just 30 minutes away. It is a place of stillness and whenever I am there, I am reminded […]
Read moreI have recently discovered Chantelle of Fat Mum Slim and she recently posted a great 50 things to blog about post. The prompt that caught my eye this morning was the idea to write about an embarrassing moment. I had just recently told this story so it was in the front of my mind. Years […]
Read moreAs I walked the dog today I saw lots of leaves like this one on the ground. Leaves that still had the green of summer mixed in with the colors of fall. It is the perfect image for me this week. Due to the timing of Labor Day and Rosh Hashanah, our girls do not […]
Read moreLast week, I was without Wi-Fi. Being without Wi-Fi and only intermittent connection on our phones for a week was tough (definitely a post for another day) but the trade off was completely worth it. My mother invited us to one of her most favorite places, Drakes Island in Maine. Before we left, people told […]
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