Four Plus an Angel by Jessica Watson
Life after loss with autism, preemies and a rainbow baby
Like everyone else I’ve spent more time home in 2020 than I could have ever imagined. With all this time at home has come a ton of books and some extra time to actually read them. My list of favorites is growing again so it’s definitely time for another book list. It took me a […]
This post was written in partnership with the Michigan State Housing Development Authority (MSHDA). I am compensated for spreading the word about MSHDA programs, but all thoughts, dramatic stories, and run-on sentences are my own. We sat in a quaint diner, three blocks from the lake we loved and decided to put in an offer […]
This post was written by me in partnership with the Michigan State Housing Development Authority. I have been compensated for my time but all thoughts, opinions and crazy stories are my own. I’ve spent the last week binge-watching the show “Unexpected” whenever my kids aren’t in the room. During every episode, I ask myself at […]
Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine homeschooling would become wildly popular because of a pandemic. We’ve been homeschooling for years and years and years and, as much as I didn’t think I knew what I was doing, people are asking me all kinds of questions and I have answers! Maybe I do know […]
When you were young you were colicky, both of you were. I mean I think that’s what it was. At 6 pm every evening one of you would start crying and cry and cry for hours. Your dad would walk in the door from work, swing his tie over the shoulder of his suit jacket […]
This post and others like it may contain affiliate links. Thank you for your support. I’ve been reading like crazy this year. Usually I’m freaking out in December about meeting my Goodreads goal but this year I was in the home stretch by July. To justify my crazy habit I figured I better give you […]
This post contains affiliate links. I’ve been doing almost all of my shopping on Amazon lately. I feel like I’ve got the hang of what brands are decent, where to find good prices and how to make sure my packages won’t first be touring the world for 80 days. The part of my mind that […]
I discovered podcasts a few years ago when I was in the middle of deep cleaning our house for a move. I kept hearing people talk about a podcast called Serial. I figured I would try to figure out how to listen to these things and if I actually liked them while I had hours […]
Her car rolled past my house pushing three miles per hour, partly because she’s nearly 90 and partly because she was coming to a stop two doors down. I was making breakfast in the kitchen that was once hers, standing where my grandmother stood years ago, buttering bread and scrambling eggs. My heart caught when I saw her […]
Today I picked up a prescription alone. I sat in the car for four, possibly five, glorious minutes and checked Facebook on my phone while I ate a pack of miniature Cadbury Eggs I didn’t have to share. And then my bucket was full. Well it wasn’t full but it was full as could be at this point […]
