RENTTHERUNWAY Anyone who knows me knows that fashion is not my deal. A comfy pair of jeans and an over-sized shirt are my idea of personal style. So why did I include this, a website where one goes to rent designer dresses, as one of my Five Fabulous Finds this month? Sometimes it is fun to venture into foreign lands even if we feel a little ridiculous doing so. Offspring No. 1 introduced me to RENTTHE RUNWAY. She is a fashion…
We’re all ears. Listening is one thing. Obeying is another!
It’s not Christmas or any one’s birthday but I have spent a lot of time knitting over the last couple of weeks – at least a lot of time for me. I don’t have as much time to play with my sticks and string as I would like. But as I said, over the last two weeks I have been knitting obsessively. We’ve eaten out every breakfast, lunch and dinner for two weeks, worn the same pair of socks and…
Saturday is usually our chore and errand day but today we decided to make it a “date day.” The cleaning, laundry and grocery shopping will get done eventually. Today was a day to enjoy the beautiful weather and each other. We rode the DART train which gave Weber a break from the stress of driving in Dallas. Imagine my surprise when I ran into one of my students on the train! We headed downtown to the Asian…
One also needs a cat! We shared a simple Easter meal for nine at our house. Simple means that we had black bean soup, chicken tortilla soup, a fresh green salad and warm homemade bread. That is about all we could muster after our Holy Week and Easter obligations at church. The weather turned dismal about the time everyone was on their way here. This delayed their arrival by a while. I tried to have everything ready so that we…
I just realized that I apparently have commitment issues! You may remember that back on the 29th of February, despite having stayed home from school that day because I was really pretty sick, I proclaimed that I was going to start a “regular” post at the end of each month entitled “Five Fabulous Finds.” Well, it is now the third day of April and you may have noticed that the month of March has passed by and I failed to…
Early-ish this morning I took the dogs, my cup of coffee and my journal out to the back patio to get some fresh air and settle my mind before I committed whole-heartedly to the day. The morning was perfect – not too hot, not too cold, and not raining. I needed this because today had on its agenda a few moderately stressful tasks. I had my pen in hand ready to start writing my Morning Pages (I am a follower…
A few weeks ago I wrote about the fact that I had beets that I didn’t know how to cook and was fairly sure that I wouldn’t like them even if I did know how to cook them. I asked for suggestions from any of you who may have a better relationship with beets than I do. As is usually the case when I make such pleas, at least one of you always comes through. This time it is a…
For whatever reason, during this month I have been introduced to several things that I have though were just really cool. Most of them are not new to anyone but me. That’s OK. I thought it would be fun to share my fabulous finds here. Maybe some of you have also led a sheltered life and will find some of these things new and exciting as well. My original title for this post was “Five Fabulous February Finds”. As I…
This is a cow. This is a purple cow. This is Iris the purple cow. She lives in my from yard. It is possible that she has some unicorn in her gene pool. This is a purple iris but not a cow. I suspect that seeing purple cows in your front yard comes from eating mushrooms.