Good Afternoon Everyone and welcome to another “Mondays in My Garden” update! This week, I wanted to share some specifics for how to plant potatoes and sugar peas. But we had some significant wind over the weekend, so our planting plans had to be postponed! Instead I’ll share a few pictures from this week in [...]

Good Morning Everyone and welcome to another “Mondays in My Garden” update! This week, I wanted to share what I do each year to start our family garden!  First, I usually start by making a wish list of all the wonderful things I want to grow.  Or you can just go to a local garden [...]

Today the cousins are enjoying the warm morning sun and a bottomless teapot of water and honey. One of the best tips I’ve learned for capturing children is instead of photographing their special moments from a vantage point of five feet from the ground like this… but rather to get down on their level and [...]

time with my visiting mom and sister… the smell of fresh earth as we finish planting some purple pansies… and finding the humor in preschool cousins that are already in cahoots. Note to self: Never allow three cousins to go inside “just to go potty” without an adult. What are your savoring today? How do [...]

Do you have a garden? In all of the places we have lived as a military family, we have always had a garden. Whether it is a narrow flower bed along the side of our four-plex, or convincing a wonderful group of friends to start a Community Garden in Baumholder, I’ve always felt the need [...]

This is what this corner of my yard looked like when we bought our house last June. And this is the view this morning. (8 months later) I am planning to reorganize my days next week to start blogging regularly in the evening. I want to set up more of a schedule with “Mondays in [...]

A wise friend of mine recently told me – “There are very few stresses in life that can survive a treatment of milk and cookies.” And I whole heartedly agree with her! … How do you find peace at the end of a long day filled with never ending “to-do” lists? What is your favorite [...]

the laundry… the menu plan and grocery list… the delivery of purged clothes to the thrift store… and maybe test drive a new flavor of nail polish… What are you tackling today? How do you reward yourself for completing a long “to do” list?

With the warmer weather we’ve been having here in El Paso, I’ve been spending a lot of time outside. And I’m finally starting to see some hints of future fruit for all of my labor. I’ve had a few friends message me via facebook recently with questions of HOW do I GROW this? or that? [...]

Dear Congress. On election day this year, I shared this quote by Abraham Lincoln on my facebook page: “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s [...]