2015 in Review. Well. What a year. I can’t believe all that has happened in 2015! Overall 2015 was really good to me and my little family. I always love looking back at this time of year and highlighting posts that show the things that we did. Because I haven’t linked the old blog to the […]


Another Christmas in the books! We had a wonderful one, in fact, it was my favorite Christmas with Oliver so far. Obviously when he was a newborn he wasn’t aware of what was going on. Last year he was still a bit uncertain. This year he was so into the whole thing. He loved opening […]

From my little family to yours, I wish you a very Merry Christmas! Thank you for sharing in my world, it means more than I can say!

Dear Santa, Hi! It’s Ollie! I was a little too shy to talk to you when I saw you a couple of weeks ago, so I thought I’d write you a letter. I’m a big two year old now you know! I’ve been a good boy this year. Well, as good as I can be. […]

I gave myself a little bit of an early Christmas present – I think sometimes we need to treat ourselves, so I did in the form of a color change in my hair. I used to dye my own hair red all the time when I was in college and in the days leading up […]
In the interest of “moving my story forward” so to speak, I’m going to move away from the journal I kept for English class and back into my personal one and kind of wrap up my 8th grade year a bit here. I promise you aren’t missing much from the rest of my English journal, […]

Today I’m linking up with Kiki over at the blog In It’s Time for the monthly Circle link up – I love the theme for this month – Christmas traditions! I love Christmas and I love talking about Christmas, so this is a perfect topic! I will fully admit to being Scrooge the last couple […]

There’s a local event company here in Minnesota called Get Knit – their goal is to plan activities that they work to “knit” people together with local businesses and organizations. They have wine tours, brewery tours and a series they call “Arts and Ales” which involves some sort of craft night at a local brewery. […]

I’m back to Thursdays for my kicking it old school and sharing old journal posts. These made me chuckle a bit, so I’ll just dive right in. These posts are from those “days off I desperately needed” in the post I shared last week. April 5th, 1996 Hi! Tonight I have to sing at the […]