My Shoestring Life

And I couldn’t be more thrilled, yet terrified at the same time. Photo via CrewCuts.

My husband and I have decided to make a mutual goal. We are each going to choose ten challenging non-fiction books we’ve been wanting to read for a long time and commit to reading them in 2010. Ten may seem like a low number to some of you book worms, but it’s achievable to us [...]

it is, right? Then, how come so many of us look so haggard and depleted?
I’m thinking that when someone asks you to come for coffee, cookies or dinner and you don’t have a free moment the whole month of December, something is wrong.
Is there a way to reclaim some simplicity and rest during [...]

I have had a rough morning.
I woke up crabby and just about everything that has happened up to this point has made me more crabby, except for this.
When my youngest refused to go back to bed after waking too early, he was restless downstairs with just me. When we went to go get [...]

You actually include spending the night at a large indoor waterpark in your definition of vacation. Don’t get me wrong, I love my good food/good wine vacations, too. However, as the mom of three boys, I have expanded my definition of the aforementioned term to include spending ten hours walking around in my bathing suit [...]

Lots of business travel this week for my husband, which means there will be a bit of radio silence here. I’ll be back soon.

Watching the trees turn colors and then give up their leaves.
Wearing a scarf for the first time.
Sleeping with the windows open.
Drinking coffee outside and having the mug warm up your fingers.
Pumpkin scones at Starbucks.
The sound of leaves blowing down the street.
Brach’s Candy Corn.
Snuggling under a throw and reading.
Getting reacquainted with my knitting.
Photo from Southern Living. [...]

So love your electric smile.
So love those bewitching blue eyes.
So love your enthusiasm and passion.
So love the way you have grown into a great big brother.
So love that you are not an annoying little brother.
So love that when you watch TV with your older brother you have to be right next to him on the [...]