Autumn Manifesto

Following the lead of Rachel and Tracy, I enjoyed their thoughtful manifestos so much. Autumn is my favorite season and is usually accompanied by a flurry of activity, plans and resolutions perhaps because of my childhood association with the beginning of the school year. Their posts encouraged me to pause and think about what I [...]

Happy Things

Despite that last melancholy post it has been a really wonderful week. So let’s balance things out a bit, shall we?
A brand new human joined our family on Wednesday! Wow – Babies give me SO MUCH HOPE. Our sweet AB has a brother now, and Tad & I have a nephew – very exciting!! Of [...]

Reminder

What a week. Things have been busy my friends, busy is manageable though. But just in case I should happen to get caught up in the busy-ness and begin to lose sight of the important things that I’ve learned about myself and what is truly important in my life… Just in case I should be [...]

Looking Back and Moving Forward

Wow. Another year. There are those that I’m sad to see go, and those on which I am quite ready to close the door and move on already. I’m not entirely sure about 2008 yet – I would say that I’m ambivalent about it, but that’s not really the case.
2008 was a year of big [...]

September

Phew!
Yesterday was the last day of September. This is normally a pretty quiet time around here, but this year? What a whirlwind!
Since posting has been a little sparse except for raffle updates, I thought I’d post a few pictures and notes to document this month that has just passed.

Finished Sweet Caroline’s sweater, though delivery hasn’t [...]

An update in list form

Things are busy my friends – general work insanity (to be expected at this time of year), and lots going on in real life too, which equals less wordiness from me as most of my energy and attention are drawn elsewhere. So, an update on the activities of the last week (two, actually) in list [...]