the back door

last monday the kiddos were out of school. my little girl had been asking for a playdate for many weeks and well, i'm not so good with that kind of stuff. so this was a great day. i asked for the girls and then we decided to just all get together...so we headed over to my dear friends house for the boys to play, the girls to play, and then well, of course us moms to play:) i may or may not have a slight problem with pinterest. i try to limit myself, but boy do i love the ideas floating around. i keep telling my dear friend she needs to get on, so that morning i got her hooked up. as we were deciding how to be crafty we browsed pinterest and saw that adorable yarn craft above. (well, not exactly that one!) now, something you should know about my dear friend. she has yarn out the wazoo!! and she loves to get rid of things so this was the perfect craft. we sat down and made yarn ball after yarn ball. isn't it cute? she just did a round one, but i wanted to attempt to do the heart

discovery: joy in following a call many of you know a friend and i set out this fall to get blessings in a backpack going in p-town. it seemed like a slow start, but we were committed and this past november we started handing out 25 backpacks each friday . the blessings are supposed to be for the kids, but i have to say, i think the blessings i receive are beyond my wildest dreams. this past week my dear friend tama was featured in people magazine with this article . she has been our faithful cheerleader in this attempt to help feed some hungry kids. reading this made me all the more thankful that she is my friend! but what i really want to say is how amazing this program has been. each friday my friend and i personally deliver the backpacks to the kids. their faces tell it all. some of them have run up to us and given us hugs, others say thank-you in some of the sweetest voices with the sweetest smiles. the past couple of weeks hubby and i have had several conversations abo

discovery - my word for 2012. well, i intended to be a bit more faithful in blogging about my discoveries, but alas, i failed. so i thought to my self, "self, get crackin." so here i am midway through february (it can be considered midway on the 9th right? i mean there are only 29 days!) and decided i'd give you bullet point discoveries from january. i like bullet points, but i usually think and process in circles so this might be a bullet point list in random order! ...the joy dare has given me many discoveries....like what i consider things to be grateful for ...grace - i'm discovering just how much i need it, don't deserve it, and crave it all at the same time ...how cool it is that my hubby knows random odd facts ...my family finds great joy in sitting in front of the tv on friday night and learning about people's family trees ...learning that i'd like to do more homemade ...i have an issue with sugar. kind of like a love affair ...son really doe