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…
Tag: Resilience
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…
Our first adventure as a married couple
I have had a great weekend – my nephew and his son came and stayed with me for the weekend while taking part in a hockey tournament. I know, I know, how Canadian is that? Anyway, my nephew and I did a lot of reminiscing which then became the inspiration for this next post. We…
Yummy Aromatic Roasted Root Vegetables
Is anybody else sick and tired of this nasty winter? If it’s not snowing, it’s raining and if it’s not windy it’s raining and if it’s not foggy, it’s raining. Blah blah blah…. I’m over it! I have spent quite a bit of time in the kitchen lately cause’ cooking is what I do when…
Deal with the BIG guy
Have you ever had something happen in your life that you knew would affect you and your loved ones for the rest of your days? It was 5 years ago, that our life was turned upside down and I wasn’t sure how anything was going to unfold from that moment on. I went to bed…
What sense of direction & who needs an energy ball?
Where did I get this terrible sense of direction? I have no idea when it all started but it is bad…….I mean really bad! I need one of those dogs that find people in avalanches or something. He could go with me everywhere, no, he should go with me everywhere because I can’t find my…
Sometimes it’s good just to go back to what you know & Win, Taste & Show Banana Bread
We have been getting slammed with our weather. We live on an island for crying out loud……..we are not supposed to get snow, but this winter has been surprising us with some unwelcome white stuff. And by surprising us, I mean we received about 2 feet in one day which set in motion a bunch…