We Are the Sum of Our Choices

Yesterday, I was getting my house in order for a poker party with family. Running around with my music blaring, tidying up, and making...

There's a special place in my heart for one particular mountain on this earth. It symbolizes hope and love and an experience I had with...

Ah...the infamous "bucket list." I'm sure you've all heard that term before. Some of you may have a list written down with this actual...

The process of unpacking and organizing is an interesting one. I'm finding that while unpacking I'm taking more time to actually look at...

Well, we did it! I'm officially writing my first blog post from the new house. I'm exhausted and my legs hurt from so many trips up and...

This will be the last blog post I write from this apartment. As I sit here, surrounded by boxes and empty walls, I'm struggling a bit to...

I'm preparing for the next chapter in my life and we are getting ready to move from our apartment to a beautiful new house. I'm so...

I have always taken great pride in the fact that I am logical and "prepared" to handle the details in life. I'm generally very organized...

For the past two weeks, with the way the holidays fell this year, I've felt like life was kind of all over the place. I'd wake up in the...

As we come to the end of 2018, I find it hard to believe that I've been blogging now for almost an entire year. After so many years of...

Pictures of smiling families, perfectly arranged tables with a beautiful meal that is cooked just right, decorations shining brightly,...

It's that time of year again. A time for traditions and special moments with family. Friday night I nearly had a Christmas tradition...

On the last trip my boys and I took to Seattle, Jacob helped finish a complex jigsaw puzzle that my uncle and cousin had been working on...

Life is like a book. Actually, not just any book. A choose your own adventure book (shout out to the 80's for those of us old enough to...

Don't cry over spilled milk... How many times in your life have you heard that saying? Yesterday, when I was making breakfast, I dropped...

Trust. Five simple letters, strung together to form a word so meaningful to our lives. Everything we do in life takes a certain level of...

At work and at home, there are days when it feels like everything I am trying to do is impossible...like trying to nail jello to a tree....

"If you knock and it doesn't open, it's not your door." This is one of my favorite quotes, and advice I often give to others when life...

I made the mistake a few years back of swerving to avoid a deer and ended up in a ditch with a messed up front-end and two flat tires. I...

I often wonder what goes through my cat's head when I am running around the apartment, trying to get everything done. Or what she...