Enthusiastic Homemaking

"Say, could that lass be I?  Merry of soul, she sailed on a day Over the sea to Skye All that was good All that was fair All that...

Please excuse this image of me in a culturally insensitive costume in 1984. Somehow it's the only picture I have of me as a child!  ...

My very first Christmas tree.  "I can't do this anymore. It's killing me."  Those words, uttered by my husband, chan...

10 days after my surgery, I did my first full 2.5 mile walk, it felt great!  When I became aware of anything after my hysterect...

The Lump of Coal I don't feel well. It feels like there's a lump of hot coal in my belly, just to the right of my belly but...

My oldest son turned 18 in April and went off to Navy boot camp this summer. He has now spent several months thousands of miles from hom...

I'm finally ready to say it. I was in a cult. I didn't know I was in a cult when I was in it (nobody ever does). It's not li...

Recently, I was washing the dishes (by hand, because I hate dishwashers, or at least our dishwasher) and as I was rinsing the bowl in t...

  Seven years ago this month, a stay-at-home mom of five pressed "submit" on her first Etsy listing. I look back on my then nea...

Since I wrote last, I have been in homebody mode, in my winter break for college and stuck under a historic winter storm that has dumped unp...