Happy May Day! While I do love the big holidays, there is a charm to some of the simpler ones and May Day would be one of those. As a child, my mom would hand me a stack of construction paper and a handful of pipe cleaners. With scotch tape flowing from the ceramic yellow…
Hello friends, I am writing this as the end of April post. When we started 2020 I, like many of you, thought I had a handle on what the year would likely turn out to be. I chose to attempt a new kind of “resolution” and tweaked the advice of a counselor friend of mine. …
If you were concerned, we made it. Made it to the patio, made it without an explosion in our relationship or the propane tank. Made it to the table to enjoy our first grilled meal on the new grill. And for the record…someone else in this house is also of German descent and bears the…