Setting Up House – Establishing a Cleaning Routine
When my husband and I bought our first home, I struggled to keep up with the housework. It makes me anxious to come home from work and have a living room strewn with used dishes across the coffee table; mail, opened and unopened scattered about; halfhearted cooking...
A few of my favorite things ~ January 2018
GoodReads This handy website and app lets the avid reader (or wannabe avid reader) track their book consumption, rate and recommend books to their friends. I find this especially helpful since I read a lot and more than once I’ve found myself part way through a...
Creating a Shadow Box for Loss
Grief is a funny thing. It hits each person differently. We may have shared experiences, but that doesn’t mean we all process it in the same way. My husband and I had a wonderful little Rottweiler pup in 2015-2016 named Lavender (Lavi for short). We took her to...
Setting up a Bar Cart
Remember Gilmore Girls? Any time Lorelai and Rory would visit Richard and Emily, the first thing they would do is walk over to the bar cart in the living room and fix themselves a refreshment. No disappearing into the kitchen for a drink. Just a simple DIY set-up...
Creating a Sanctuary to Restore and Refresh
Why is a sanctuary important? Now more than ever, it is increasingly difficult to step away and shut out the noise. They haven’t established a space where there is quiet, where they retreat, such as a sanctuary, to restore balance to their life. Social media,...
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