Gardening and neighbors just go together so well.  Unless you have a large family, most gardeners can’t help but to grow more vegetables than they will actually eat.  I was thinking along these lines yesterday as I walked through my unattractive yet bountiful garden to inspect our tomatoes (and pick the first one!). A few [...]

As much time as I spend in the kitchen, as much time as I spend obsessing about what comes in and out of my kitchen… it is truly the ugliest room in my house.  It is the one room that has remained untouched since we moved in, and it gives me a daily headache. Why [...]

The past few months, I have been a total organizational mess.  More so than usual, and those of you who know me well know that’s pretty bad.  I’ve come extremely close to missing appointments and missed one outright a couple of weeks ago.  It’s been driving me a bit batty, to say the least.  So [...]

Living in the South, I’ve had a lot of really good, slap-yo’-mama mac n’ cheese.  The kind that just naturally goes with some drool-worthy collard greens.  Well, Jr. won’t eat that.  He won’t eat mac n’ cheese out of the box, either.  Though I would prefer for him to not eat much of any meal [...]

I had today’s Friday Beautiful Things all lined up, but needed to double-check something with the gallery… which is apparently closed for vacation, so it will have to wait until next week, as I don’t want to post anything incorrectly!  Maybe I’ll even post it earlier in the week since I didn’t have the internet [...]

Mr. M and I went on the most delightful date the other night.  Between the setting up of Mr. M’s new work situation, business trips, swimming lessons, family events, and on and on and on, we just haven’t been able to fit in much dating.  So, I called the sitter and we went out to [...]

This past weekend when we were housesitting/staycationing at The Dr. and Mrs.’s house, I went out to an old bookshelf that had been moved to the garage to see if any of my old yearbooks might be out there.  You know, because Mr. M and I have been together long enough that I don’t mind [...]

You know when you have an idea in your head… … of something that is essential to a project that you are about to start… … and you can’t find anything that remotely matches the image in your head… …that is remotely reasonable in size or price for a kitchen of smaller stature? This kitchen [...]

We’ve been staycationing at The Dr. and Mrs. while they are in Atlanta, and are having WiFi issues, so I apologize that my posts have been lacking.  I was able to slip away just now to hop onto a computer and wanted to wish everyone a very happy 4th of July weekend!  I hope that [...]