Expiration Dates

I was doing so good. So good! The month of January had me on point, on schedule and feeling good about getting things done. And then February. Ugh...February. Storms, snow days, bad news, lambing, lack of motivation...throw it all on a plate and make a daily meal out of it. That was February. I would…

Raising Greatness

I made her. This wonderful, amazing, open-minded, charismatic, self-assured little woman...she's mine.

Shopping

Oh goodness, this challenge is a bit harder than I thought it would be. Sometimes looking at the list of prompts and trying to think of something to write that is inspired by the word is just difficult. It starts feeling generic and that wasn’t supposed to be the intention of taking on this challenge.…

This writing prompt is certainly fitting for today. Late Sunday morning, my phone started blowing up with alerts that we were in for a winter storm at the least, a blizzard at the most. Usually, my days off fall on Fridays but I have an amazing boss that allowed me to switch it from Friday…

You’re Still Mine

This morning started out pretty mundane. I got up early, started a pot of coffee. After dousing my awesome coffee-filled Great Pumpkin coffee cup with a liberal splash of creamer, I sat down and watched the newest episode of Modern Family before anyone else was up and the girls newest favorite, Dino Dan, took over…

Today

Today started out like any other day. The Hubs was lucky enough to have a day off due to incorrect material being sent to his job site so it was just us and the girls today. I felt more motivated than usual and set about my day determined to make some headway on the chaos…

The Art of Optimism

A friend of mine told me the other day that she loves reading my blogs. She said some of them are very sad but I’m always optimistic. My response was that it was all in the words. Because honestly, an hour before she posted that to my wall, I was hunched over at the kitchen…