Eat the Frog

One of my goals has been to blog everyday. I mean, of course I miss some days and prioritise tasks, but I have been averaging 25/30 days and...

Most people don't know.  I am a mermaid. No not really. I have gone my whole life feeling like I was not in this world, that I wa...

I do not make my children hug or kiss people they don't want to. I don't make them hug their friends after a fight to make up. I don...

I know, I know. Dreams are the most boring things to read/hear about. Sleeping dreams, day dreams, goal dreams. I love the imagery and the h...

Most of us are only a heartbeat away from the kind of poverty that is harsh and cruel and inescapable. None of us believe it to be true, b...

Today the discussion over at Midwest Homesteading and Permaculture is about things that we've tried and then failed at. Also, about h...

Whoa baby. The holidays are here. Even those who don't believe in religion or celebrate the traditions can't seem to escape the st...

Courtesy of Jennifer at Herbalist Eats.  Thanks for the great think this morning! My children go grocery shopping with me. They have done th...

Yay! This weekend we plan on planting. It is a couple days from the frost free date, but I will be so relieved to get it out of the way. My ...

I just finished ALL the laundry. Washed, dried, and put away. It had been looming as a giant pile of clean clothes in baskets on my bed for ...

This weekend we packed, sorted, and threw out things. We are preparing for an upcoming garage sale, but it is more than that. I threw away t...

Here are the items on my list to tackle: Put away fake tree and better label ornament boxes. My office/craft room: need more baskets . Lil...

Lil'Bug almost slept through the night. She woke up around 4:30 am scared of the dark or a nightmare. Unfortunately, she gets that from...

I hit (according to the many baby books laying around here) month 5 this week. I can hardly believe it!!! Over the weekend I packed my hospi...

Release my attachment to stuff/junk. This is the easy part, right? De-cluttering is really an economic privilege , you have to have stuff an...

Well, the camera is off to New York, dinner is in the oven, progress is being made in Lil'Bug's room (she's helping so 1/2 as fa...

Spring cleaning is great BUT I am usually knee deep in grading papers in the Spring so this year I have decided to deep clean and organize r...