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A snowdrop wilts behind grandma’s ear.  A bowl of maple tree flower buds is offered up on the altar of my kitchen counter.  A star gazer lily slowly loses its…

Five Minute Fridays Kids and Treasures Memories Thoughts and Musings

7:17 am: You wake up.  Unlike most mornings when you replace the monitor static with coos and chortles and yelps, you cry.  Overtired from an Easter weekend away from home,…

Memories Parenting

Remember when your hair stood in a mohawk fringe after being raked through with a handful of hummus? Remember how you chortle with a conquerer’s joy when you climb into…

Five Minute Fridays Kids and Treasures

Anna Watson Carl makes me want to down Blood Orange Cilantro Mocktails.  And throw a Gnocchi Face-Off for NYC powerhouse foodies.  And flit off to a Valapariso, Peru vacation.  She’s…

Parenting Recipes and Fare

I inadvertently guffaw at the word “Rest” as we come out of a week’s siege of stomach flu that has left a baby wide awake in dark hours and diapers…

Five Minute Fridays Intentional Living

Intentional Living