Saturday Morning, laying on the couch watching a rather silly but cute movie with my 11 year old daughter. The movie ends and a new movie comes one. This one starring Hilary swank. and I  say, “this should be good, I love her! AND we have the same birthday…just ten years apart.” My daughter says,… Read More I Heart her

Snow!I will confess, that over the last…I don’t know, few years, maybe since my Mom died, maybe since I turned 50, whatever, I have had this fleeting thought “Will I ever feel that absolutely happy feeling again?”      It is not as if I am sad, no, no, far from it.  I am enthusiastic about Christmas… Read More Snow!

I have been uncharacteristically calm this season. Not that I don’t have my moments where I flip out… well for instance, like last night when Phoebe and I stayed up to decorate the tree for the third time because that is how many times it has fallen down and we have had to start ALLLLLL… Read More I Do believe….I DO believe…PART I

When I was packing up my city self to move to the country, I remember a friend, who had moved out here a few years before, saying “the one thing that took some getting used to..was ALL the bugs.” They are everywhere. They are always there. I am not one of those people who flip… Read More Bugs I have known

Everyday, on my way anywhere, I have the sheer pleasure and privilege of driving up the most beautiful hill in the world. To my right are the expansive and blooming Vineyards of Seven Oaks Farm and to my left side are the rolling hills of the majestic Mirador Farm. Both are landmark properties here, historic… Read More Through the Fence

Okay. Now I have a NEW goal. I want to get my living room on the Benjamin Moore facebook page. It is not that I think I have the most beautiful home in the world, but I want people to see, how much they can do, with VERY little money. I have done everything myself,… Read More BEFORE AND AFTER

Write what you know. That’s dangerous. And potentially sleep inducing. Yikes. When I first moved to Virginia, I hated it. Despised the simplicity and the bad hair and the lack of angst and motivation. I hatched a plan that ended with me ditching this hillbilly Popsicle stand the second my, then boy friend, now husband… Read More Fraidy Cat

     There was a time when I missed him while he slept. There was a time when I could not get home quick enough from work to see him, the short drive was agonizing and every stop light or errand on the way kept him further from my arms. I cried in the toy… Read More RAISING KIDS: The New Deal… or Oh Where Oh where Has my Little Boy Gone?

Two seconds, two minutes , two hours, two days, two weeks, two months, and now it has been, two years since my Mother passed away, since she died. I woke up on the second anniversary of her death at exactly the same time she died that day, 5 am, and I am not just saying… Read More Two Years