November 15, 2022 Shifting Time, Adapting Traditions Yesterday a notification from my calendar app popped up on my phone. It read, “Pearson Family Thanksgiving at Mom & Daddy’s.” It was an old recurring appointment I’d just never deleted. I guess I hoped we’d restart it someday. The recurring day was [...]
Chore Chart Revisit October 25, 2022 In our home we have a chore chart. It has had several looks and undergone several overhauls as the children grew. It isn’t an assignment chart. It’s an extras chart. The current look is a board Christina bought for her 18th birthday party and [...]
Encouragers: The Challenger of Norms October 6, 2022 I’m praying for her family. I’m praying for strength, wisdom, and peace in her heart. This woman is the Challenger of Norms. She has encouraged me over many years. When my daughters ask if I have a best friend, this woman comes [...]
November 11, 2021 Turn Negatives Into Positives I make that a command for myself. When we first ran our information into a loan company portal, I felt it wouldn’t happen. I kept asking for everything I could check myself. We check credit reports constantly, we knew our shortcomings and explained [...]
September 9, 2021 House Hunting 102 – Searching Searching… They say the hardest part of doing something you really want is waiting and planning. They might be right. We keep getting to the search part. We are looking for land or a house on land within 10 minutes of I95 [...]
May 16, 2020 Shattered Again. Shattered Again. This is what strikes my heart again. Of course, in the big scheme of things I realize, this is tiny. This isn’t losing a family member or going bankrupt. Logically, my brain tells me that this isn’t really a bad thing and there [...]
Stepping Back February 23, 2020 My little love is one! I’m 37. We both had birthdays this week. This is the first birthday for one of my children that I missed. I was on my way to a meeting at work when I got two adorable videos from Louis – [...]
November 10, 2019 Memes to Voices A friend was showing us her flower arrangements: she said, “expectation versus reality.” To me, both arrangements looked amazing – her husband had given her a few bunches of flowers which she artistically set in two gorgeous table arrangements. She thought one was excellent [...]
June 10, 2019 House Hunting 101 – Lesson 1 – Location We’ve been planning toward our next step – home ownership. We are grateful for the place we are currently renting, but because of the black mold infestation (it’s under control, but we don’t own the house, so can’t remove [...]
April 9, 2019 Old Architecture – My Favorite Design I’ve moved around a lot. My favorite house, architecturally, was this lovely old place in Holly Hill, South Carolina that was built in 1904 or 06. It was amazing. It was bright without ever turning a light on, even in the [...]