slow mornings, simple joys

I really needed this new scale from Brylane Home! I did because you all know that I am working on losing weight and my old scale and I have not had the best of relationships. I once told Edgar it was broken and his response was “Just because it doesn’t say what you want it…

Gallo en Fuego (Rooster on Fire in Spanish) is more than just  products. First all of the products are designed by Lori Holliday who just happens to be the same designer of 2 Red Hens Studio items (you may remember the great diaper bag not too long ago.) Lori was inspired by her husband, Mark,…

A special Thanks to our sponsor for providing this giveaway item. Be sure to watch for my review of the product which will be coming soon. One of the first things we do when we have children is to get the house ready for them. We cover all the electrical sockets even before they can…

Have you ever heard a baby with colic cry? It is heartbreaking because there really is not a whole lot you can do to soothe them. So you try to do everything you can to help from the get go. Nowadays you can give your baby things like bottles and pacifiers designed to help with…

I have been working on redoing the bedroom for a while now. I know what I want but am just not sure how I want to do everything. The biggest thing was that I wanted to brighten the walls with some artwork if possible. When Create My Walls offered me a canvas for review I…

Notepads, journals, and paper are my passion. They always have been. There is something about bring about to actually write things down. Wordologies understands this and provides me with them. Their journals, notepads, coffee mugs, and magnets nudge the mind toward focus which is something my mind really needs.

When you have kids you have to answer all sorts of questions. They will ask why they have to do something, can they stuff the cat in the dryer, and then there are the big questions like those about God. I spent many years unsure how to answer those questions because I myself had been…

My kitchen drawers are all a mess! Well they are especially the utensil drawer. It is small and I have tried to little drawer divider but it doesn’t work. I need more space because I have more utensils so I wasn’t sure what to do. I went searching around the internet and came across KMN…

Summer is here and finding foods that are good for the kids can be a bit of a challenge. The other challenge is that since there is no school I am actually working more and the kids end up getting their own breakfast some mornings. I want something that has enough protein to get them…