2020 was… quite a year. Like everyone else, we shut down our lives in March and are just now returning to something that looks a lot more like “normal” as we knew it. Between a national lock down, online teaching, and trying to keep my family safe, my mental health took a dive and I…
Tag: Photography
Painting Projects
Over the years, as my creative tastes and outlets have changed, I’ve painted. As it turns out, this particular hobby comes in handy when I need to make a prop for the stage in my new capacity as Theatre teacher. I began with small things, like the occasional canvas, and then added in a flower-pot…
Amy’s Amorous Adventure
In 2013, I got divorced after a year of marriage to a man who ended up not being the one God had planned for me. I moved home with Mother and Daddy for a week or two, then a wonderful little rent house just kind of opened up for me. It was perfect, and I…
Throwing a Wedding
I was just talking about this today with one of my coworkers, and I have to admit it was one of my biggest projects and one of the biggest successes of my “crafting” and planning career, prompting a very faint hint of a dream to be an event planner when I feel it’s time to…
Birthdays and Baking
For the past two years at the beginning of July, my husband and I celebrate our daughter’s birthday. She’s 9, quickly going on 10. She is a product of his first marriage, but she’s as much my daughter now as he’s my husband. Since birthdays are fun times and supposed to be pretty awesome, we…
HappyHonu 