Author: Calamity Jane
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DIY vs. BUY
Do you remember how I said I was building my daughter a dollhouse for Christmas? Back at the beginning of the month I carefully planned it out on graph paper, borrowed a friend’s power saw, cut the pieces and stacked them in the garage. Then on my last Saturday afternoon off before My Man’s crazy…
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DIY Glass Sippy Cup
Hallelujah. We made it through. My Man finished his last test Thursday– beginning almost 30 days of semi-freedom and familial bliss! I have so many (many) posts in my head, gathering to a complex hurricane of thoughts. But I’m really trying to relax just a bit, instead of charging into my free time with the…
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Real Quick
After yesterday’s post I was treated to an unusual extra 30 minutes before the Babe woke up. I reorganized the categories a bit in the sidebar– it’s been bugging me that there wasn’t a category for the good posts. I’ve titled it “CJ’s Favorite Posts” but only because I couldn’t put my finger on a…
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A Great Big Deep Breath
Friends, I have many things on my mind. It’s been a good Fast so far, 5 days in. Incredibly instructive, my mind is whirring. But not, not at all, with what you might be expecting. My mind has travelled through the subject of luxury as standard and out the other side through the psychosis created…
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Let the Madness Begin
Kyce from Old Recipe for a New World (she doesn’t write often, but always wonderful) wrote a great post a few weeks back called Letting Go: The Christmas Edition. Oh honey, don’t I know it! I (love)(hate) Christmas. I really do. I’ve written about it every year since I began blogging [here, here and here],…
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