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Life Lessons from Mom
This is the fifth Mother’s Day without my mom. I’d like to say that it gets easier, and maybe it does, but it makes for a melancholy day. It’s around this time of year when you see stories and videos of lessons from what we learned from other mothers. I gave the eulogy at Mom’s funeral back in 2019 with the lessons that I learned from mom, while not quite the typical ‘Mom lessons’, they were the lessons I learned from her. Eulogy for Robbie Ann Creed Maxwell given May 30, 2019 As I driving here from Florida, I had a long time to think back on Mom and things…
Clapotis 2024
Blogtober Day 2 If you were in the knitting sphere back in the early 2000s-2004, to be exact—you probably knit a Clapotis by Kate Gilbert. This pattern went viral before virality was a thing. You couldn’t open a knitting blog without seeing…
Blogtober
Tap….tap…tap…. is this thing on?
Recipe for Second Chances–a quick review
Super cute, fun, and light read. Stella and Samuel met in college while not in the right space for a relationship. A few years later, they meet again at a destination wedding in Italy for mutual friends. As predicted, they…
Summertime
This summer has flown by! I had four weeks off in June, but one of those weeks, I was in Louisville for the National TSA Conference, which was my first time at a conference without a chapter. It was very…
A year of Diptychs…so far
This year I decided to step out of my comfort zone and do a weekly challenge on Instagram. I figured it would be good for my creativity. For the most part, I’ve shot during the week specifically to make a…
Confession…..
I never watched the original Sex and the City. Several reasons, the main one being that when they were originally, on, I didn’t have HBO. Heck, we barely had cable. The second reason was that I was a twenty-six-year-old mom…
Happy New Year I’ve been knitting!
Happy New Year! I know we say this every year, but I can’t believe that the last year flew by. I had lots of personal changes, all good in 2022, which is definitely an improvement from the previous three years.…
Hurricane Ian, the aftermath
I don’t know where to begin. Relief that Ian didn’t hit directly as first thought and despair that it slammed into the coast about an hour and a half south of us as a Category 4 hurricane. I saw someone…
Hurricane Ian
Not going to lie, this one is giving me lots of stress and anxiety.
Moooooooooo!
As part of my new job with the school district, I get to see all aspects of our Career and Technical education departments. One of the things that I am looking forward to is learning about all of the Career…
