Spices and taters make my mouth water a lot. BBQ I love… Dirty socks and such seem to multiply by night. Laundry I abhor… Windowsill flowers are cheerful. Geraniums are ones that make me smile… Mother daughter time is stolen during nap time. Painted toes I love… What is making you smile today? Does anyone [...]

On Tuesday I shared these words on the Household 6 Diva Facebook Page…  Today.  I declare war. On the bathrooms. *cover me* and one of my wonderful readers responded with these words… *holds the Nutella hostage* SHOW ME THE CLEAN BATHROOMS OR THE NUTELLA GETS IT! This is precisely why I love Social Media. The [...]

When I sat down to go through my photos from the ball over the weekend, I realized that I hadn’t taken “the picture”. The full length photo of the gown I had worked so hard on was no where to be found! But I DID have a series of photos my husband took of me [...]

Um… Ann? My computer won’t recognize the hard drive… What? (cue the sound of my heart starting to pound… bumpbump… bumpbump…) Seth had been moving files from our old back up hard drive, to a newer larger hard drive. What do you mean “it won’t.  recognize.  the hard drive”… (cue increase in heart pounding rate… [...]

I love taking pictures of my children at the playground – especially on the swings. The problem was, standing in front of the swings with the sun behind me, meant that Maggie couldn’t smile and look directly at the camera. Which means I have quite a few photos that look like this. So I changed [...]

Good night stars… Good night air… Good night noises everywhere. A view at dusk from the town of Titisee, a small town in the Schwarzwald region of Germany. Where is your favorite place in the whole world to watch the sunset? And what is your family’s favorite bedtime story?

I have been a member of an amazing photography group called Shop Talk for more than a year now.  My dear friend Kim Kravitz who started it, (you may remember those ah- may – zing Welcome Home photos she took for us?) is one of those fantabulous professionals who both rocks her camera AND is always [...]

Today I’m writing about something a little more on the behind the scenes side of blogging and photography. You see, this blog is a one. woman. show. Everything from the header graphics, to the photographs and links in the sidebar - oh and of course the content of every single post is created, edited, and published [...]

Today I wanted to take a side step from sharing our “Deployment Reintegration Adventure” for a moment. (Golly!  That phrase makes it sound like yet another movie in the Griswold Family series!) As a blogger, I love interacting and connecting with each of you through comments, facebook, and twitter. Household6Diva.com has grown into an amazing online community [...]

When we moved to Germany, we decided to only purchase one cell phone and plan.  This was because not only were we were sharing one car, and Seth was also getting ready to deploy for 14 months – it was an unnecessary luxury in my book.  So I dumped our circa 2006 razor phones and chargers in a [...]