With Great Joy

A friend of mine is hosting a Garage & Bake Sale this weekend.  ALL proceeds are going toward the refugee crisis.  ( Isn't that wond...

[written last week, but I forgot to post it!] -We finished our standardized testing today.  I am so relieved.  One of my testers got a lit...

~ Mark and I are celebrating 14 years of marriage today. How I *love* my husband! Mark blessed me with a bouquet of flowers at lunch today--...

Dear readers, A couple blog-details: 1. I had some time today to respond to your recent comments. [ Thank you to those of you who do so.....

I'm still wiping away my tears from reading this beautiful birth story .

I couldn't bring myself to make them. You know- those cool rolls that you can make for Easter? You fill them with a marshmallow and th...

I know some of you are faithfully checking in to see if I've had this baby yet, so let's go ahead and get that news out of the way f...

We got our Christmas tree today, and spent the day decorating the tree and the house- outside and in! So. Now that the house is fully deco...

I see now that it's actually 5:22 am. I've been awake since 4:30. Don't ask me why . I'm tired and would like very much t...

To my White Goose Down pillow, that is. [That's it there, on the bottom.] I'm sure it was a little puffier when I bought it, years ...

I've added a new little section in my sidebar. I'm actually not really sure how it all works, just that I have noticed that a few p...

*First of all, thank you all for your congratulations and joy for our family! I read each comment aloud to the kids and they were beaming....

Randi from i have to say... has opened an online fabric store called Fresh-Squeezed Fabrics . Today is her shop's Grand Opening. Woo...

We just cancelled our subscription to Netflix. Here's why: We had a documentary in our queue and Mark said, " You should see if t...

You all have kindly reassured me that you weren't at all bogged down by the last series of posts, but I feel a little bogged down myself...

If you're reading this post, glance over in the sidebar and see if your name and link-to-your-blog is there. If it's not, and you...

Just dropping by to let you know that although I've been a bit remiss in responding to your comments of late, I think I'm now caugh...

Hi. This is Mark here. Stacy's husband. I've never "blogged" before. But since I was so kindly celebrated here by my w...

Today is Mark's birthday! Mark has the day off today, so we began the day by giving him the gift of sleep. While he was doing that, we ...

To let you know that: ...Mark is back to work after 10 days of vacation, so we're settling into a routine here at home. Which means tha...