When last we chatted here, I mentioned one of the best things about January was having time to get organized. Well, check it out! I started with my very disorganized refrigerator, and it is miles and miles better than it was. Thank goodness! I still have nine other areas on my list to organize this month but its good to get started and get one done.
My stretch goal for January, though, is a little more unique. I'm going to try to eat only out of our freezer and pantry for the month. We can...
Okay so the 12 months of 2025 are gone, gone, gone and it's time to look ahead and get planning for the next busy 12 kicking off with the long month of January.
Honestly, January is not my favorite month. In fact, thanks to the short days here in the Pacific Northwest (we get light only til 4/4:30 each day) and loads of drizzly rain with cloud cover, January is my least favorite in a monthly line-up.
In the South Pole Santa books, January is Slumber Month and all the elves plus Santa and Mrs....
When I was growing up, it was our family tradition to get a tree right around the middle of December. Dad would load mom, my two sisters and yours truly into the car and we'd head to the tree lot. There was lots of tree lot choices in those days since artificial trees were pretty much non-existent. We'd search around the lot looking less for the perfect tree but rather one that fit the family budget. Us girls didn't care. We were getting a tree!
Then, when I first got married, we had moved...
I read a blog post recently by Sophie Stern that read:
I love Thanksgiving.
I love finding reasons to be grateful, and I love food, and I love celebrating.
Me too!
So I’m just borrowing Sophie’s words to say how much I love this holiday. I have a long list everyday of all that I’m grateful for. Here are some for today:
". . . Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue . . ."
Those words from the most iconic song in the Wizard of Oz are true for many, but Seattle, where I am lucky to live, doesn't happen to be one of them. We may be the beautiful Emerald City as Seattle has had as a longtime moniker, but this time of year, something like Silver City might be a more accurate description. We lean to gray tones with rainy and cloudy days more than the sunny days others enjoy.
So, craving sun rays we looked south...
You know how everyone has a dream for something out of their reach. Or supposedly out of their reach. Well, one of mine, for many years, was that I wanted to be in the Pillsbury Bake Off. (Another is that the South Pole Santa series will take off but that's for another column.)
The Pillsbury Bake Off for those not familiar with it, used to be an annual event Pillsbury would put on. People from across the country could submit a recipe and fifty winners would be selected to compete for a prize...
Its November already! Or as I like to call it: Yesvember! Seems like a nice update to one of my favorite months and I'm for saying yes to all the fun this time of year brings.
Here's five of my favorite things about this month:
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