We took the kids ice skating for the first time this week. Despite my childhood visions of being the next Olympic skating champion, I’ve now been on ice skates a total of 3 times. We laced up our rented skates and hobbled to the outdoor rink. The sun was exceptionally bright for January. Some skaters […]
winter
Love Your Ordinary: Backyard Beauty
Congratulations to Ibelisse who won the copy of Carols Kent’s new book Unquenchable! You still have time to enter the giveaway for Susie Finkbeiner’s new novel My Mother’s Chamomile. Enter on this post! [pinit] A walk through our local botanical gardens was just what my winter-weary soul needed a couple weekends ago. As we traipsed […]
Getting up Gracefully
We woke up yesterday to ice-covered streets. But we breed ’em tough up here, and school wasn’t even delayed. I bobbled my way down to the bus stop with the kids, and I nearly made it home before my feet slipped out from under me. With arms and legs flailing, I landed in a snow […]
Staying Steady: Run 1,000
Last week, I posted at Circle of Friends about how one of my goals for 2012 was to stay more consistently disciplined in all areas of my life, with new daily habits of discipline as opposed to catch-up habits. I have a pattern, as I do when I drive, to hit the gas, then coast, […]
Where were you for Blizzard 2011?
Yesterday made me question our judgment of leaving Florida. Just a bit. It took my husband a couple hours to dig us out of the 18 inches of snow on our driveway. It was a good day to be a mom. I kept the water going on the stove refilling mugs of hot chocolate and […]
Beat the Blahs – Day 6
Read a new/new-to-you author It’s no secret that I love books. I recently discovered a treasure box full of my childhood books. As I stacked my old friends in a pile next to me, I was amazed at just how many books my family had bought for me while I was growing up. When I […]