This year was gone in a flash – I can’t believe today is day 365 of 2016. Looking back, it feels like we didn’t do much but I guess not much can add up to a whole lot. So here’s our 2016 year-in-review / holiday card…
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A Day in the Life of Shannah
A photographic analysis of a typical weekday for Shannah. 4:30 am – time for a run 5:30 am – We need treats! 6:45 am – train ride to town 7:40 am – morning walk from the train to the office 8 am – breakfast meeting 9:30-11:30 am – Two in-office meetings Noon – lunch meeting 2:30 […]
Filled to the Tip Top and Flowing Over
…that was my schedule last week. It’s amazing I’m still standing, let alone not laying down with a cold compress over my eyes, having a case of the vapors. {Having the vapors just sounds so lady-like. I love that phrase. Moving on.} Here’s what a too-full schedule looks like. Feel free to share your personal […]
The Great Pantry Purge
I’m not quite sure when I realized that our pantry was a disaster, but it was sometime during the Christmas break. I worked from home for the Christmas-New Years week rather than driving in to a nearly empty office. I suppose, working from home put me in constant proximity to my pantry. And that’s when […]
They Kicked In
The Boy told me at some point the steroids would kick in. He said that, if his experience (and the package warnings) were any indication, that I would be restless, hyper and unbelievably busy…Shannah x 20. I’ve been on steroids for over a week now. Dragging around. Still in pain. Exhausted. Disappointing, really. And then […]
About that Tomato Plant…
So I bought a tomato plant a couple of months ago and had very high hopes for it. About that plant… Here it is today: The Boy’s verdict? Give it up already. You have a black thumb. Sigh.
File this Under Doesn’t Happen Every Day
Last night I pulled a bird’s nest…an actual bird’s nest…out of our exterior dryer vent. We knew the birds had built a nursery there, but didn’t have the heart to hurt the chicks by removing it earlier. For nearly a month, I’ve been hanging clothes to air-dry around our house all for the sake of […]
When Everything Is Out of Control…
When life swirls out of control – the kind of out-of-control where you really truly absolutely cannot change anything – it’s helpful every now and then to take control of something that you can. So we did just that this weekend. Laundry, ironing, cleaning out the pantry, catching up on long-neglected Netflix discs and cooking were […]
Nothing Better
After a very long day filled with: Designing and preparing client gifts (using the technique I blogged about last year) then Packing client holiday gifts, followed by Researching and proofing 357 names/addresses for a mailout list, with breaks for Answering a billion emails then Sitting in a late-day meeting that, subsequently, ran late, meaning that […]
The Best Spot in the House
The furbabies have favorite sleeping places. In the morning, Bridget sleeps under our bed (unless we’re home, then she sleeps in the family room as near to mama as she can get). Ben sleeps on the back of the sofa. In the afternoon, the sun hits the back of our house making our French doors irresistable. […]