3 Steps: Build Your Plan

Getting from Here to There Whether you want to call them goals, or resolutions, or just plain stuff we have to do, we all have things that need to get done. And I don’t know about you, but in my house, that means I have to do them. Figure it out, get it done. But […]

Starting Off a New Year:2019

It’s Almost 2019! In just a few days, 2018 will be over and we will be starting off a new year. Was 2018 good to you? I think that overall, it was for me; certainly better than the year before. A Time for Reflection The end of the year – or the end of anything […]

A Christmas Story

Spoiler: Ralphie’s Not in This One Today is December 17. One week until Christmas Eve. Grab yourself a cup of hot chocolate and sit back while I tell you a Christmas story about the Christmas dinner that almost wasn’t. Let Me Set the Scene Picture it. Sicily. 1945. Oops. Wrong show. No, this story takes […]

Simplify Grocery Shopping

Do you do the grocery shopping at your house? I once had a group of friends when I was younger, and out of all of us, I was the only one who did the shopping. My friends’ husbands did theirs. Now my husband and I share the job, but I’m the one who does all […]

Clean Up Your Act

Ever have one of those days? I’ve been on an on again/off again streak with cleaning lately. This time of year it always gets to me. While I understand the traditional spring cleaning routines – clearing out the house after having been shut tight all winter – it makes just as much sense to me […]

It’s All About the Plan

Well we have survived Thanksgiving and are well on our way to Christmas or whatever holiday you might celebrate in December. Did you cook the big meal or did someone else? Most of the women I know went somewhere else for Thanksgiving and had little, if anything, to do. I got to make Thanksgiving dinner […]