Note to Self

I went with the grand kids to the fall fair today.  A place that reminds me of my own childhood – the horses, the cattle, the rabbits, the goats and the sheep, the pies and the sewing exhibits – all of that sums up every one of my summers growing up. Back in the day,…

Where did that come from and easy Avocado Mango Black Bean Salsa – Yummy!

Today’s post comes to you compliments of my kids and grandkids Have your kids ever said something and you wondered where in the hell did THAT came from?  It happens all the time in my family and people always tell me that I should write this stuff down, so I am doing just that.  In…

How Fortunate Am I?

Fortunate favored by or involving good luck or fortune; lucky.  Synonyms: lucky, favored, blessed, charmed auspicious or favorable.  Synonyms: favorable, advantageous, providential, auspicious, welcome, beneficial, fortuitous As I was sitting here today wondering what I should write about, all I could think about is How Fortunate Am I?  Things aren’t always great and peachy, but…

Taking the road less traveled

We just finished a 5,000 + mile road trip travelling to Colorado for my nieces wedding (which was beautiful by the way). We knew where we wanted to go (Yellowstone particularly), but I will admit that the plan could use some improvement as to the routes we were going to take but there to save…

Dear Mom

Let’s just be real here – being a mother is hard and life can be messy, making it even harder.  And while I have another mother who has impacted my life immensely, today I have some things to say to my own momma, things that I didn’t get the chance to say. It’s tough, tough to…

Ode to 33 years!

We are coming upon our 33rd wedding anniversary.  Who knew that a country girl from Colorado would meet up with an island boy and find her happily ever after? When we first met, I was a little wild to say the least. In fact, he calls our story The Taming of the Shrew and if…

Perfect Melt in your Mouth Prime Rib and where the heck are my socks?

Easter 2017 Well, today I de-Eastered (I’m sure that’s not a word, but I’m using it anyway) and if you need translation, it means the lengthy process of putting things away, cleaning up, re-organizing, eating the rest of the candy (oops, no that’s not what I’m doing), dealing with leftovers, etc. I’m not complaining though,…

Today I feel secure knowing that tomorrow is another day!

Today I started a 21 Day meditation challenge with Oprah and Deepak and I will begin this by saying that I already started off on the wrong foot because today was actually Day 2, but I blew off Day 1.  Now, in my defense, I had a rough night before the real Day 1 (I…

Sometimes you accidentally find things, just when you needed them most

I’ve been thinking a lot recently about my family heritage and particularly about close family members who have passed away, so while I was looking for some papers related to our property, I ran across some information about my grandfather and my mom that was shared at their funerals.  Obviously I had filed these things…

Change is good and so are these Lemony Banana Blueberry muffins!

Before deciding to start a blog, my initial intention was to start journaling.  I bought a lovely journal, pretty stickers, pencil crayons, fancy pens, stencils, etc.  Then when I went to start, I couldn’t find the words, couldn’t figure out what I wanted to write about, and most importantly I realized that my once beautiful…