Mother’s Day activities

May 13, 2007

Happy Mother’s day to a mother most meritorious:

(sister, mom, me)

(youngest brother, mom, sister)
I can’t even begin to enumerate all the reasons why my mother is so wonderful.  At church this girl read an amazing poem that she wrote about mothers and it had most of us crying, hopefully because we saw our mothers in the [...]

Early birthday treat

May 11, 2007

It’s not my birthday yet but I’ve already received some gifts!  My birthday is two days after the wedding, so it was quite the pleasant surprise to receive two early birthday gifts:
    
       
which are two sides of the same necklace, and  
 
(the dark dots are actually bronze-y, sparkly stones).  Aren’t they pretty?
These are from Foxy Originals, a jewelry [...]

Disorganization

May 10, 2007

It’s ironic that I write about, among other things, organization on Life Tips Daily because I’m not your most organized person (and I know some of you are vehemently nodding your heads; whatever!).  My saving grace is that organization is so relative:  you will always be able to find people less organized than you (and the [...]

Matchmaking

May 6, 2007

I read an article today about how, when you’re almost 30 and single, your friends and family all want to set you up with ‘eligible’ people.  The author expressed that this was both a compliment and an insult:  the former because they want you to have what they think is missing in your life and [...]