I recently read a post on one of my favorite blogs – Making it Lovely, called “Mathematical Mind” that really got me thinking.  Nicole talks a little bit about her high school and college experience and a bit about how she’s not exactly where she could be.  I won’t paraphrase too much – you can check it out here…but wow, this really resonated with me. Lately I have been thinking about my late grandfather, Donald F. Chamberlain (pictured above with {Read More}

So, my little guy had surgery, again, last week. He previously had tubes put in when he was 13 months, but they have since fallen out, and after 5 -6 ear infections this year alone, the ENT said he needed tubes again. They also decided to take his adenoids out, hoping that would negate the need for tubes a 3rd time around. The surgery was pretty quick – we got to the hospital at 7 and were on our way {Read More}

I just finished up a fun little project – Treluxe.com’s new website.  We are working on some minor tweaks, but overall I’m thrilled with the way the site came together.

Every year I promise myself that next year I will design my own Christmas cards, and every year comes around and I just don’t have the time.  We just got our beautiful family pictures back from Olan Mills and I hopped onto Shutterfly to design our cards.  I know, I know…but really, next year I’ll do custom ones Merry Christmas! Stationery card View the entire collection of cards.

I keep dreaming that Alice comes into my life and cheerfully restores order to my house with her little blue dress and apron.  But alas, it’s still just me slogging through load after load of laundry.  I’ve stumbled across a book that looks truly hopeful and fun 31 Days to Clean:  Having a Martha Home the Mary Way.  I’m going to give it a try – I’ll give it a brief review in 30 days – we’ll see if it {Read More}

I just found this fun site – Recycle Bank.  The idea behind Recycle Bank is rewarding people for taking small steps toward a greener lifestyle.  You earn points by doing things like taking quizzes, making small changes to your lifestyle or home and spreading the word.  It seems fairly easy to get some quick rewards – I earned about 100 points this morning just taking quizzes and posting on facebook.  I earned enough points to get 3 coupons for $1 {Read More}

About a month ago I read Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Eating Animals.  My motivation for reading the book had nothing to do with eating or animals, really I had no idea what I was getting myself into.  I was looking for something to read on my new kindle and did a search for Foer.  I loved the book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel and I happened upon Eating Animals.  I can’t even remember if I realized when purchasing {Read More}

I’ve noticed that the pacifier debate brings up strong feelings, whether for or against.  My mother always felt like they took my brother’s pacifier away too early, thus creating a thumb-sucking habit that lasted until he was 5 or 6.  She is on the pro-paci side, telling me to leave Aiden alone when I try to remove his pacifier.  My in-laws are more old school, thinking pacifiers aren’t necessary after 6 months, I’ve heard them tell Aiden “you don’t need {Read More}

It started when Delia turned one…my pursuit of the perfect birthday cake. I am a firm believer that although a box cake is always good, it’s just never as special as a from scratch cake. For Delia’s first birthday I did a strawberry vanilla cake that was amazing. I spent hours online researching recipes and agonizing over it. Everyone raved and I was hooked, not only on how good it was, but how amazed everyone was that it wasn’t from {Read More}