Last weekend, we traveled an hour away from home to find our new fur child. This is quite a big deal for our family (or any family for that matter). My kids weren’t born when we got Cali as a puppy, so that was their one request: that we choose a puppy. And the only […]
Black Monday
Yesterday we lost a dear old friend. I cannot even begin to adequately express the gaping hole her departure has left in our family. The whole thing has me tied up in knots. Her body was ravaged by a cruel disease (degenerative myelopathy) which made it challenging to walk or stand, she had lost tons […]
Loving Lucy
*This post is deeply personal and shares more than I ever thought I could. I consider myself a pretty private person but I wrote this for a contest a year ago because I had to get this out. Cathartic, you might say. The question posed was this: When did you first understand the meaning of love? Here’s […]
Wordless Wednesday
Laura, Pa and the Prairie
Sometimes when innocently flipping the TV remote, you can stumble on a classic show that really takes you back to your childhood. Enter tonight’s airing of Little House on the Prairie-LOVE IT! We are adding this one to the DVR. As soon as the theme music starts and the kids tumble down the hill, I’m […]