Category Archives: Day To Day

Acorns In Our Home

Today, daughter #1 started up her piano lessons again. She has a new teacher this year and I was so excited that her home was super kid friendly. Since the weather has been so nice, we decided to play outside with her children (who are also home-schooled). As I looked around, I noticed TONS of [...]

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Displaying Photos

So this post is strictly to show Mandi (and her readers) over at Organizing Your Way my favorite way to display photos: French Memory Boards. Super easy to switch out photos and great conversation starters. I have ours going up our staircase…one for each family member. There you go!

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Polish Your Silver…In Seconds!

I used to not be a fan of silver. Really. Sure it looks nice, but it takes effort to keep it from tarnishing. Then, when and if it does tarnish, there’s more time of mine spent polishing it with a rag. And time is something I wish I had more of. A while back, I [...]

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My Theme Song

One of my most favorite ladies in the whole wide world asked a question yesterday on her blog: Have you ever had a theme song? Immediately, Brandon Heath’s I’m Not Who I Was came to mind. It’s not directed at one specific person – rather, a handful of people who have come and gone in [...]

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Caterpillars & Horses

Every morning I ask the girls what their dreams were about…it gets that hamster wheel spinning to remove all the groggy cobwebs #1 usually has some random long drawn out dream in which usually ends with all of scratching our heads in wonder. #2 makes me laugh each time, “Caterpillars & horses!” #3 is at [...]

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My Way…Always, Right?

Have you ever been in a torrential downpour? Not the “cats and dogs” kind, but more like the hippos and rhinoceros kind. That heavy watch-out-or-you’re-going-to-get-pummeled sort of rain? Maybe you have, or have yet to experience that. Tuesday was that kind of weather, so to speak, for This Mom – and I seemed to have [...]

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