(Sort Of) Wordless Wednesday: My Boy of Summer

I have been so crazy busy the past few weeks that I haven’t had time to write a decent blog post about hardly anything, it seems. I’ve got some egg questions on my mind – and I usually always find something to share about turkey, but with my organization’s summer conference last week, I haven’t …

Wordless Wednesday: Flowers and a Family Legacy

I love when the peonies start to bloom – gorgeous color and the flowers smell amazing! This particular peony has special meaning for me – it came from a cutting of the same peony that my Great Grandfather planted on the family farm I grew up on. It’s hardy, tough and vibrant – a lot …

Lake. Family. Golf. Ice Cream. Repeat.

Has it really been 9-1/2 years since Teacher Man and I became parents? Now our redheaded, freckled boy is his own little man – always creative and sometimes cautious, baseball player and pianist, funny man and artist/writer. Just seconds after he came into the world, he promptly peed all over his Dad. It is still …

Sunday Wishes for Sunshine

Where is the sun? It’s been so gray and cloudy and rainy and cool in Minnesota. And not just for a few days – I’m talking for weeks on end. Our thermometer only reached 61 degrees today – quite a bit lower than our average high of 78 degrees this time of year. I think …