Staying Fit Through the Holidays

by | Dec 15, 2014 | Health and Wellness

Staying fit and healthy through the holidays is more about your motivation and one small (but effective) trick than checking off a list of to-dos. Before you read on, ask yourself why you want to stay (or get) fit this season. Are you going on vacation? Do you want to...

It Is Positively Difficult to Stay Positive

by | Dec 15, 2014 | Faith

I pulled out of the driveway and pushed the CD into the player. Today, it wasn’t music; today, it was Norman Vincent Peale’s book, The Power of Positive Thinking. On a typical day my drive to work takes about 15 minutes but once I hit the main road, I could see...

Teenager’s Double Duty Desk

by | Dec 11, 2014 | DIY

She’d wanted a desk for her room for some time – my younger daughter, Julia, that is. We didn’t have a big budget, but every once in a while we’d look. We just hadn’t found the right thing at the right price. Then one day as we browsed together in a local resale...

The Fear of Failure

by | Dec 11, 2014 | Faith

While playing hide and seek as a kid, I discovered a bomb in our closet. Well…kind of. I was seven years old. My younger brother, who was six at the time, and I decided to hide from our mom while she was on the phone so she would have to find us when she hung up. We...

Mismatched Silverware

by | Dec 8, 2014 | Just Laughs

At Christmas time I love to decorate, and cook, and be creative! I’m really not into it at any other time of the year but at Christmas, it’s the season when all the details make a difference — or so I thought. It’s been my goal that my house and home would look...