Getting Into a Funk

When worlds collide:

2009-11-14T16:15:20-05:00

A few weeks ago I was in the kitchen digging through the stained, messy stack of recipes I've printed off from the computer the past few years, trying to find a recipe that I make all the time but couldn't...

30 Days of Happiness: A victory for urban chickens

2009-09-16T12:19:16-04:00

A city council member introduced a bill in July to ban chickens from the "urban services" district of Nashville, and it was indefinitely deferred last night at its third reading! I'm more than happy today, I am ecstatic!

30 Days of Happiness: Sometimes the best days.......

2009-09-14T18:02:38-04:00

are spent not doing much at all.

30 Days of Happiness: Silas

2009-09-11T10:51:00-04:00

I think about the day Silas was born every day, the joy his birth brought to all of us six weeks ago is impossible to measure!

30 Days of happiness: Life in the Garden

2009-09-10T10:53:12-04:00

There are few things in life that please me more than observing nature. The perfection of a butterfly's wings, the intricate design of a spider's web, the vivid colors of a flower, a honeybee doing her work are things that...

30 Days of Happiness: Just because

2009-09-03T14:23:16-04:00

Yesterday was a great day for no particular reason. We didn't do anything exciting really, I didn't write the next great novel or paint a masterpiece. But we did take a walk together (I love how much the four year...

30 Days of Happiness: Transitions

2009-09-01T12:06:59-04:00

We dropped Ian off for his first day of "school" this morning. What an event! It was a blur. Throngs of parents and kids everywhere, hanging of backpacks, unpacking of nap mats and lunch boxes. Silas started wailing after about...

30 Days of Happiness: Let it go!

2009-08-31T10:19:01-04:00

So a few days into this "Days of Happiness" project I am realizing that I spend way too much time during the day being *unhappy*. One of the main sources of this unhappiness seems to stem from things not being...

30 Days of Happiness: Bedtime!

2009-08-28T09:52:19-04:00

I walked in to Ian's room last night to this sight: Lee laying down next to Ian, reading him Charlotte's Web. We've been "dividing and conquering" since Silas arrived, and I was walking around the neighborhood with the baby in...

30 Days of Happiness: Tomatoes!

2009-08-27T09:21:08-04:00

It makes me so happy to see these bowls of tomatoes (some perfectly ripe and ready to be blanched, peeled, seeded and frozen and some plucked early to avoid the bugs) sitting on my counter! I love that they all...