Category Archives: personal

Let it All Go …

Today is Monday. The day I tackle laundry, baking, dinner menu planning, grocery shopping – basically everything for the week. The day that set ups how smooth the week will go for me.  But today, I decided to scout out new locations for my session. And then I cleaned out half of the kitchen cupboards […]

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{Rain}

  The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you’d just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with […]

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Love & Sunshine.

Sundays are a relatively peaceful day for my family.  Despite the mad dash to church in the morning, the bomb that goes off steadily every Sunday in the process of getting five people ready for church (why does that happen?! It’s insane!), and then the fact that hubby usually works Sundays and there’s very little […]

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Weight is worth the wait.

This week, my husband committed the unforgivable sin.    We were getting ready in the bathroom  when I caught a glimpse of myself in the long-wall-covering-mirror that mocks me each morning. 18 weeks so far in this pregnancy and feeling pretty good. Except … I noticed … something looked bigger … no, not my belly […]

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Pink Frosting …

“When you look at a cupcake, you just can’t help but smile.” ~ Ann Byrn   Today, we baked cupcakes with pink frosting and delivered them to our new neighbours.        Rewarded the girlies with a cupcake of their own …           It was a good day. Much better […]

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