Challenges Help Change Us

Change – everyone is doing it, trying it or at least talking about it – especially this time of year.  People are trying to change things from the extra weight they gained from the holidays to the secret attributes of their personalities that deter them...

Weekly Wrap Up: Best Stuff In The Blogosphere

One of the most fun parts of the week is collecting the tidbits of news, encouragement, inspiration, laughs or just yumminess (that means food) from the blogs we follow.  Some favorites from last week: Louise: I’ve been reading Amber Haines’ blog, The...

Step AWAY From the Computer

  Last night my mother had a huge pop-up window suddenly appear over her entire Facebook screen.  It said (in her highly technical words), “There is something really wrong with some serious stuff on your computer and it’s going to ruin everything if you...

7 Tips To Help YOU Improve Your Marriage

I love my husband like CRAZY!  It gets better every year.  But, all relationships have their ups and downs.  Sometimes it feels like a full on roller coaster.  As I begin to get ticked off with the little things in marriage, small infractions get larger than life....

Pasts and Futures

I’m a DIY dummy.  But while I can’t do it myself, I love finding treasures that others have repurposed/upcycled/refurbished and made beautiful again.  There’s something about the character, tradition and memories associated with something old and established that...

Upholstered Chair Makeover With Chalk Paint

I couldn’t believe it when my mom showed me a picture of an upholstered chair redone with chalk paint!!  I have been going through the agonizing process of ripping off old fabric and cording and attempting to make something look great.  That didn’t work so...

Triscuit Chicken

Holy Moley!!  It’s Tuesday night and I have nothing planned for dinner and we can’t go out! (Why can’t we go get our favorite fast and easy food on a psychotically busy weeknight you might ask?  Well…check out this post from Gwen.  It’s...