What I Want To Teach My Daughters About Beauty

As I am raising a teenaged daughter, I've been reading a lot of posts lately about what we should be teaching our daughters a…

On Using Up Eggplants and Living The Dream...

Happy Friday, Sunshines! Today's eggplant harvest. They were labeled Japanese eggplants when I bought the seedlings, but my f…

Catching Up!

Howdy, Sunshines! It's been a while since I've updated so I figured I'd drop a line, ask how you're doing, and ca…

For My Fellow Failing Stay At Home Parents...

Good afternoon, Sunshines! It's been a challenging week on the stay at home parenting front. Actually, it's been a challe…

Good afternoon, Sunshines! 2 PM rolled around, and I realized I hadn't spent any quality time with my plant babies today. As …

On Collecting Sunrises, Synthesizing Life Lessons & Smelling Toes

Good morning, Sunshines. :) Yesterday, I started an album titled Sunrise - Work in Progress in which to collect all the remarkab…

free love

sometimes they cannot let you change because they fear you'll rearrange your life in such a way they will not fit or such a w…

"Babe, how come you're never mad at me?" (as I slide back into bed and wake my not morning person husband at 5:30 a…

Izz gave me the sweetest hug this morning, which happens quite often these days. But today was different because we happened to b…

xox, 2014.

One of my favorite pics from a year full of lovely little moments captured on camera. Lavender Love With the holidays winding do…

"For lack of love one does a million other things." ~ Marty Rubin Empanadas and pickled peppers for Dean's office …

How is Honeydewing?

This pic of Honeydew, probably the last one I will ever take, was shot on November 3rd of this year after Dean and I decided toge…

"Life is what happens to you when you're busy making plans." ~ John Lennon A really good life is happening to me …

To Be Seen

So I happened to be gardening when Dean called me today on his lunch break like he usually does, and I marveled to him at how I c…

Colloquial Zen & The Mediocre Dog Owner

This dog. This dog is testing my patience, compassion, adaptability, and inner peace, and I am failing miserably. Let me tell you…

$138 A Week For Groceries - On Friendship & Day 21 Meals (Friday)

"A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle han…

$138 A Week For Groceries - On Aging Wieners & Day 19 Meals (Wednesday)

Between a toddler who's been keeping odd hours and a senior citizen wiener dog who's begun to do the same and wake us up …