Private, not bad.

My daughter loves to run around our house naked. I celebrate her freedom and innocence in our home but when she started flashing our neighbours through the window I decided to pull out this book. (Note: very little is TMI for me so I talk about body parts freely but with respect. Just a warning…

Sometimes I want to delete my blog

Lying in bed waiting to go to sleep and I get this urge, “delete your blog. All of it.” It’s not the first time I have had this thought. Sometimes I want to erase my history as easily as a web browser. There are a lot of painful stories. The horror of rape, the embarrassment…

Thank you Farmers!

I learn so much when I read stories with Elaina and the following words from Berenstain Bears hit me like an arrow: “Farming is a very important job,” [Professor Actual Factual] said. “Farmers grow the food we eat. Without them, we might starve!” When I was little I loved visiting my Grandparent’s farm. I got…

Ramblings about Spring and poetry.

Hello! It’s been a while! I have been buckling down on getting my Mama poetry book done and... almost there! Manuscript is done, edited and awaiting formatting and fitting to the Amazon template. I am learning that I love writing; but I don’t love the discipline of putting it all into the tidy package of…

Grounded

It would be an understatement to say that 2021 has not started quite as everyone hoped. COVID with all that it entails did not vanish at midnight, December 31. My first phone call of the year was to let me know that my brother was just about to have an emergency appendectomy. All is well…

New Year’s Poem

This song by Bethel has been playing in my mind all day, which is pretty normal but the response of my heart was not. These are the lines that were playing in my head: (full lyrics here) "Have It All" You can have it all, LordEvery part of my worldTake this life and breathe onThis…

Merry Christmas!

First Christmas card made by my daughter Just wanted to drop a note in the last 12 minutes of Christmas. It is a been a quieter day than usual but a sweet one. We had salmon instead of turkey and a few other changes but it was still Christmas. I wouldn’t have believed it if…

Another journey of contentment…

Double header today dear readers. Lol. This is how my blog posts happen. My brain and heart fill up and so I drop everything and find the nearest couch. Update on the poetry book... I found a local poet to read over my manuscript and give me some feedback. So I am waiting with baited…

Better is a little…

Being on a budget is hard. Especially in this season when we want special treats and also to be generous to friends, family and those in need. I quoted this verse to Forest, my husband, last night when we were dealing with a leaking water pipe in our basement and other unexpected expenses. “Better a…

Simple Gourmet

Once in a while I make fun culinary discoveries that may benefit others. Sit back and enjoy this light, non confrontational or political or pandemic related post and then head to your kitchen! My family is on a tight budget right now which means I want to use everything I find in the pantry on…