This year’s winter has been, as a pleasant surprise, pretty mild. After last year’s bitterly cold season, I could get used to weather like this. Nonetheless, short days and (still somewhat) cold weather has me in my typical winter funk. I’ve been making conscious effort to improve some of my bad habits and attitudes and [...]
Holy cow, what is this? I had planned to do a post about the new year and here we are already more than halfway through January. Somebody lit the fuse when I wasn’t looking and here 2012 is already burning down. I don’t really do “resolutions”, but I do have some goals for 2012 that [...]
Last year I started rating all of my music in iTunes and I’ve found that is a useful way to find out which were my favorite albums of the year. Sometimes the results surprise me because I guess one star and two star songs really drag an album down. I don’t know if this is [...]
Adriene took a new job this year so she did not have very much vacation time. The girls are in preschool so this week I’ve had the whole house to myself during the day. I gotta admit, selfishly, it’s been incredible. I love my family but I don’t get much time to myself anymore to [...]
Here is collection of all of the daily thankful posts I made on Facebook. As someone who has expectations too high for myself and too high for others, I often am not very thankful. It was very good to stop and remind myself to be gracious at least once a day. Now, as the month [...]