Sweetstuff

“So,” he asks me. “What did you do today?” And I think about lists checked off and conference calls and the crock pot I had to run through the dishwasher and still rinse out by hand. I think about the four rooms that I vacuumed and the EBook cover design I’m excited about. I think […]

I’ve been staring at the brown wooden paneling in my daughter’s room for months because I’m too afraid to paint it. I don’t know how to pick paint colors. Or spackle. I’m not good at home decorating, or picking out tchotchkes or fabrics or frames. I don’t know how to sew. My culinary skills are […]

……….The unbelievable has happened. I actually recorded a video blog. {The word “vlog” gives me the heebie-jeebies}. This is a big first for me. And only because my friend Holley asked. And only because it was on the topic we all have been discussing the last couple of weeks – beauty. Hop on over here […]

My boys officially smell of summer. And to me summer smells like sunscreen. The ritual has begun – the spraying and lathering and rubbing into scalps of sweet smelling SPF 50  on blond hair and pale white bodies. {Sorry, boys, you may have got my blue eyes, but you also got my British genes.} They […]

Take a deep breath. You made it. It’s Friday. Got five minutes? Let’s write. Let’s write in shades of real and true and unscripted. Let’s just write and not worry if it’s just right or not. 1. Write for 5 minutes flat for pure unedited love of the written word. 2. Link back here and […]

Some days you just put one foot in front of the other. You don’t run, you simply walk, and it’s brave even when it might not look that way from the outside. Some days you take a newborn to your dentist appointment and when she starts to cry you just smile and tell him, “Better […]