Recently, a commenter asked about my Christmas love story, “Is it really that way at your house or are you b.s.ing us all, blowing smoke? I want it to be real!” I’ve had others say that I am not “telling all” and am only reporting the good things, ignoring the bad, like I’m living in… Read More A Whole Lotta Real Love
It is Christmas season and it brings to mind so many things to ramble on about, but I decided to chat about something very, very important to most of our hearts SNOWMEN!! Yes, yes, yes!! Snowmen are the bane of my husbands existence. He dreams of snowmen and blowtorches together. He talks about hiring… Read More Ho Ho Ho, Merry Snowmen!
Posting a semi-previous post until I get time to write! So I almost got in a fight with my Christmas tree last night. We have a new tree and I am just not sure I like it yet. We got one that is flocked. That makes everything look different. It is pre-lit with white lights.… Read More Christmas Tree Angst
(Pulling out another old ramble from the www.Joy-Cafe.Com during this busy time) My oldest friend scratch that. Let me reword it the friend Ive known the longest in my life sounds much better, right? Actually, she’s my ONLY longest-known friend. That’s what happens when you move every 2-3 years (Army brat). Anyway, shes… Read More Tradition!
( I’m still Christmassing, so I am borrowing a post from my website www.joy-cafe.com – from last year.) Let me tell you the tale of… the Abominable Christmas Tree. Now you wouldn’t think a Christmas tree could be abominable, right? You just don’t associate that word with Christmas trees. Well, you don’t unless you use the… Read More The Abominable Christmas Tree
(I’m Christmasing and cleaning and working the Challenge [down 7 pounds thankyouverymuch] and still unpacking right now, so this is a semi-sort-of-repeat, changed a bit) While doing research, I came across this statement: New adventures await everyone, regardless of age. Did you get that? New adventures! That actually fits with a statement I have adopted: Its never… Read More Young At Heart (Redux)
Sometimes being overweight means we might tend to “let ourselves go.” It is as if there is a switch inside us that gets turned off and we develop this “Why bother?” attitude. Often when we look in the mirror and see how we look, it can seem hopeless. Why bother with a beautiful haircut when we… Read More We are so worth it!
While I’m focusing on my 49-day journey challenge, I will be pulling up some older blogs and reposting them. If I do that, I will put “redux” in the title! Any additional changes will be in italics! So I finally dug out my new electronic food scale* and my new handheld calorie counter (which I… Read More The truth hurts and helps (redux)!