A Celebration of Mundanity

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The Trees in My Forest by Bernd Heinrich A natural history of your yard; if your yard happens to be a 300 acre forest in Vermont, that you

Having it together

I am glad I have my shit together. I'm glad that Mark and I have our shit together. I know what I want in my life. I know what makes me happy. I simply do the things that bring me pleasure and make…

Just an observation

My early journal entries were quite long and much more descriptive; there were more elements of story telling and expressive imagery. I have moved away from that over the past year. I don

And now the buttons!

Buttons, flinging themselves from my coat! First the left ear earrings, now coat buttons! Arg they just don

A good day to purge

Today has been a good day for purging. Just going through cupboards and tossing and reorganizing. I

holiday cleanup

Whew, such hard work cleaning up the single arm full of holiday decorations! I love that we are so low key about decorating. I carefully took down the holly off of the mantle and rolled up the string…

It's oh so quiet, it's oh so still...

It has been awhile since I have had a day off home by myself. Over the holidays, Mark and I had many of the same days off. I love having him around, even if we

Mark, super-husband

Two days in a row now, I have come home to find Mark almost done making dinner and did some cleaning and tidying around the house. Yesterday was cold, bitterly cold. So when I walked in the door and…

My private challenge

Okay, I need to have my own body challenge. Not that I am terribly un-fit, I am thin and relatively healthy. I mean, when my