places not things

places not things.......



That is our family motto.



Picture this. 

A giant dream home filled with only the best of the best furnishings and textiles. 

Fancy cars. 

Dressing right out of the catalogue. (But really, who orders clothing from catalogues these days anyway?) ....so let's just say dressing.... really really nice.
Exotic vacations to foreign lands.



All this is basically

don't read this blog...

.....and other things I probably shouldn't tell you.



driving back from california last week. donner lake. photo taken with my phone. just because.





 I have been wrestling with these thoughts the past few days and finally had to sit down and pour them out of my brain onto your screen. My house is currently in a state of after Christmas chaos combined with just-got-back-from-a-week-away

guilty pleasures.......

We all have them. 

Things we really, thoroughly, 100% enjoy......and maybe shouldn't.....or at least maybe we shouldn't tell people about them....



Today I am thankful for guilty pleasures. 

Simple little things that just make life better.

 

-spoonful (after spoonful) of peanut butter with chocolate chips. Usually sometime around 4:00 is when this needs to happen.

-Taylor Swift. I know I

a small start

here I am......"swinging" into the new year......bwahahahahaOne week into the year! 
Twenty Twelve they are calling it. 
I remember Y2K like it was yesterday, and I just accidentally dated a bill 2003, so it boggles my mind that it is 2012...you know, the year the world is ending, and stuff. 
Did you make big resolutions? Have you kept them for the past week? I think as a "blogger", it is my duty

the art of doing nothing

an art I have mastered.
Yesterday.
I should have cleaned my closet.....I curled up on my bed and read. I should have folded the mountain of laundry that is piling up and threatening an avalanche that will burry my children in mismatched socks.....I feel asleep on my bed, after I read of course.I thought about making chicken noodle soup with homemade noodles.......I threw some waffles together

something to chew on...

I can't tell you how much I appreciated all your comments on my food post! I'm so happy to know that so many of you are on the same page.....we can do this together!! I just want to take a minute to talk to those of you who think that you CAN'T do it. Maybe you think you're too far gone?? Let me tell you about a girl I used to know. She could eat a McDonald's Double Cheeseburger meal (um, that's