I Love Football. Love Love Love It. Chicago Bears Training Camp begins today and I’m so happy ! Football is back. Yay ! ! ! ! ! I’m embarrassed to admit this, but there was a time when football really didn’t matter to me. Ouch. The games were on the tv every week. I would …

I’ve been visiting family and watching my 4 month old grandson these days. We live in different states so we see each other every other month instead of every other day. It’s a bummer. But I treasure every minute with him when I am with him. The first day of watching little boy was an …

Walk in the back door of my childhood home and head straight downstairs.Take a left.A curtain separates 2014 and time stopped. It’s the Toy Room. Shelves layered with games, gadgets, dolls and such. Items that have been played with and loved by a few generations of happy children. Barbie is there.She might be a bit …

I’ve been seeing hearts everywhere lately. A heart shaped paint chip in the corner of my bathroom.A heart shaped moth on my window screen.A heart shaped leaf in my car. While sitting in the shade yesterday, I looked up to see tree branches shaped like a big heart. It’s wonderful !! This happened one other …

My sister and I came up with a master plan one day.A ‘where to meet/ what to do/ it’s the end of the world’ plan.Yep.We have it all figured out.Yes. Yes we do. It’s all about Barter Town.Somewhere down the road there will be a barter for our life moment and we WILL be prepared. …

I used to have a very unorganized way of keeping recipes.I just kept them.If I needed one…I’d search.I knew it was there…somewhere….and eventually I’d find it. It drove my daughter crazy. So, she organized.She took all my recipes and put them in a book.Birthday present joy. Most of my recipes are handwritten.They are worn and …

Those who read this blog probably know I am a big believer of signs. Thought I’d share another one …. I was in the shower one morning minding my own business.I looked up to grab the shampoo and there he sat.A spider. fyi…they don’t bother me now but, there was a time when I would …

My daughter gave me this lovely advice one morning.I was stalling on whatever it was I didn’t want to do that day and she said  “Mom. Eat the frog”So …I did.And it worked. Eat the frog.Do the one thing you really, really don’t want to do first. A phone call you don’t want to make.A …

Thought I’d share a few observations from my walk in the park…. People are so incredibly happy. The picnickers, the runners, the walkers, the bench sitters…A park is where you want to be if you’re looking for smiles. There is a bug going around that is taking down some local trees.The powers that be have …

Seems every time I watch or read the news all I see is negative.Shootings and riots and wars and hate….it goes on and on and on….Negative rules. After spending a week with my 10 week old grandson I’m shunning negative. Babies.I love them so.They have the answer to everything if you ask me.They can’t tell …