Ever think about where your "happy place" is?   I do.  Maybe it is a thing all mamas do, while their kids are fighting and the ho...

This year has been...well...hard.  And beautiful.  The beauty came in things we did... I ran my first marathon .  Training and seeing t...

I never did a half-birthday post for Finola. I think that I was too tired to even realize when her half-birthday was.  I think last mont...

As a kid I distinctly remember trudging through knee-deep snow in the woods, following my dad with his saw, searching for our Christmas tree...