I hope you all enjoyed the same beautiful spring weather that we did this week. We kept our windows open during the day, spent quite a bit of time playing in the mud and reveled in the fresh air. As we welcome spring, it’s hard to complain about the rain we’ve had for the past [...]

The forecast says 50 degrees or more all weekend, and while there’s still snow covering most of the ground, I don’t think it’s going to be around long. As we usher in spring, we’ve got some pretty big changes coming for our family too (I’ll tell you more about those this week!), and life is [...]

Party preparations are done, and we’re just waiting for family to arrive to celebrate our second daughter’s fourth birthday! If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen my TwitPic updates — sent from my Palm Pre Plus — as I worked on her fairy village cake this morning.
While I’m very happy with the [...]

Another week gone by, and we’re one step closer to spring!
Most days I do my best to ignore the snow that still covers the fields around our home. When the sun is shining, I can almost convince myself that it’s a beautiful spring day outside with the frogs talking amongst themselves and the purple martins [...]

Despite somewhere between 4 and 5 feet of snow over the past week, I managed to make it home from Blissdom in between parts 1 and 2 of the blizzard that blanketed much of the Northeast. While the snow has affected everything from my husband’s work schedule to our Valentine’s Day plans, one benefit of [...]

This post was first published in June of this year, but it’s a a timeless topic and one that I’ve been thinking about lately as my own feed reader has started to overflow.
This is a scary post for a blogger to write. After all, you might get to the end of it and think, “Hmm, [...]

When the screen on my old laptop died and I had to buy a new one, I went with a super-cheap single core Acer Aspire 5517, and I couldn’t be happier with it. It’s an amazing computer for just $350, with a wide 15″ HD screen and fairly decent speed, especially since I don’t do [...]