December 11, 2013
{My eBay Collections were curated as part of my collaboration with eBay} As I drove home from dropping off the boys at school this morning, Silver Bells started playing on the radio and I sang along and pictured it all just like that. All that happiness. I love this season. There really is magic in the air. One of my boys still believes. In Santa and in the Elf that flies around the house at night. It must be so great, so inspiring and exciting, to believe! And can you remember? The joy of opening gifts that you thought Santa had carried right to you, just exactly what you wanted? And MORE? Not all of us were so spoiled, and I hope that means we’re helping each other bring that magic to those who can’t afford it. Donating toys is a beautiful way to feel the Silver Bells Feeling of the Season. The Salvation […]
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December 9, 2013
I was moving fast, around the kitchen, trying to get ahead, knowing that if I don’t, I’ll be even more behind than I can predict. It just always seems to go that way. But I felt calm, peaceful even, in the midst of the dinner clean up and getting lunches ready for the next day while the kids threw a small plastic ball around the living room and laughed hysterically. I was cleaning up after all of us as I went, trying to stay ahead of the mess too. I wondered, while the loudness of my kids overcame me, how I could be less anxious than ever. It’s certainly not always like that, but it is more and more. I don’t really have an answer, but I’ll take what I can get, that’s for sure. At 6:30 I told them, when I was done with all the things, that we should go upstairs […]
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