And we remember and humbly treasure every freedom we often take for granted.  The ones who lost their lives, the ones who lost a part of themselves on the battlefield, or in service. ...And yet, I grieve this year's lawmaking that is stripping freedoms away. " We often take for granted the…

Grabbing a moment while I still have electricity . . . this has been our lives for the past week.   At any given moment - poof our power goes out and thus far without warning!   We are signed up for notifications, but we have not received any notifications to the power outages that have happened s…

{Print Recipe} Super fun and easy autumn snack! The beauty of technology is seeing so many fun ideas.  I've seen this on several blogs and just had to incorporate it into our autumn fun. Ingredients: apple slices   - we like Honey Crisp! caramel chocolate morsels chopped almond slivers - option…

"I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does." L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables I deeply miss blogging and truly have the best of intentions at heart, but it takes time to pull a post together, edit photos, and get my thoughts transcrib…