Meal Time Monotony

Just like you, I like food. I can spend unlimited time looking at cookbooks, and now with Pinterest – I get lost!  What I don’t like is meal planning. Meal planning for the Things can get difficult when you want to break away from Chicken Nuggets or Pizza...

Om Mani Padme Hum

Last summer I did some shopping at Bazaar Star Beadery, a local bead store.  The trip was meant to buy beads for Thing 2 to make a sun catcher for her window.  I found myself drawn to a smoky brown round bead with gold tone etching.  At the time I didn’t know...

Bah! Don’t Spoil it!

Truth be told I watch too much tv. There’s something about background noise from the tv that I find comforting. Wait, tv shows that I choose, not just any tv. The downfall to this is when I get sucked into a new show because it is so good that I can’t let...

Not Quite Picture Perfect

I’m not sure if you noticed, but in the last post the picture wasn’t exactly perfect. Someone, who will remain nameless, forgot to remove the barcode tag from the top of the jar. Insert bashful look.   Now that I see the error of my way I thought I would...

Finding Calm in the Sparkles

I’ve been taking great solace from my recent dive into learning meditation. A quiet and peaceful mind is not what I typically carry on my shoulders. We all constantly feel like we’ve forgotten something, that we don’t have enough time to do what...