Since Monday, four bags of Cadbury Mini Eggs have been consumed by none other than MOI in my van. Today is the fourth day of the week. Are you seeing the pattern here?? Do you think they have an episode of "Intervention" for me?

How's YOUR week going?

Vermont Wisdom(s)

It is better to smoke here than in the hereafter.

You can’t play with fire without burning your fingers.

You will follow the path in old age that you made for yourself in your youth.

Things at the worst will sometimes mend.

 

 

Hi there. Another day of feeling in a rut that I just can't seem to get out of. I don't know what's wrong with me...I'm getting annoyed at myself! A few members of my family have the winter blues (as we lovingly refer to them), or SAD. Now I'm wondering if perhaps that's the issue with me.

In any event, here's my remedy for all this inner bleakness...there is an open bag of these babies in my van at all times. Sugar headaches and nausea be damned!

Hi there. As much as I don't like hot weather, and as much as I do enjoy the burrowing in and hunkering down of winter, I could use some sunshine and color back in my life, hence the new photo. I hope you like it...and I hope you have plenty of both wherever you are.

Raise your hand if…you just bought tickets to go see James Taylor and Carole King in July…TOGETHER, ON ONE STAGE, IN PERSON!!

Raise your hand if…you’ve been terribly lax about commenting on your favorite blogs, never mind posting on your own!  Just me, huh?  I was afraid of that. 

  As a matter of fact, you’ve been so lax that when you saw your friend Melinda from www.countrydreaming.blogspot.com had given you a Sunshine Award, you felt so unworthy, yet blessed!   Yeah, that would be me, too. (Thank you again, Melinda).

Well, I’m going to do my best to get in gear, pull myself up by my bootstraps, and stay focused here.  After all, I do love reading what everyone else is doing, reading, thinking, painting, creating, and sewing, so I’ll try and be better about sharing.  Here I go…:)

This past Saturday I spent four hours in a soap-making class and thoroughly enjoyed myself.  I’ve always wanted to learn to make soap, so this was a great hands-on experience, and really fun, too.

When it was over, we each came home with this basket of goodies that included everything needed for making our own soap, as well as eight bars of their homemade soaps in Lavender, Oatmeal-Honey, Northern Forest, and the MaryLemoLav (rosemary, lemon and lavender).   The melt and pour is something I can do with my granddaughter, while the other is more complicated and will have to wait til I have time on my hands, but I’ll get to it.

We also had a 7th birthday party for my granddaughter, Mackenzie, on Sunday which was a nice day spent with family.  We really love having her here…she is such a loving, funny, busy, intelligent kid!  She brought her cousin, Kiley, with her and they had a grand old time…plus cupcakes, ice cream and presents of course!

Ok, I’m off to do some more domestic goddess stuff before supper, then hopefully relaxing.  It’s good to “see” you all again and hopefully, life will allow me to spend a bit more time here.  I have lots of catching up to do. :)  Happy Wednesday Eve to you!