happy stuff.

today, a homeschooling mother came to the reference desk and told me that her family loves to read books together and asked if i had any good reading recommendations. joy! this is my favorite kind of question to answer. so, i took her to the shelves and introduced her to some of my most favorite [...]

yesterday morning was the first day this year that i could get out on my ice skates on the local pond and hit a puck around with a stick (or, more accurately in my case, flail wildly at a puck and be thrilled if i made contact at all–regardless of whether the puck went where [...]

having been recently inspired by denyse schmidt and sally shim, i created these two purses last weekend. aren’t they the cutest?!

this morning, i woke up and noticed that fat, white flakes of snow were falling outside my window. i was too excited to go back to sleep (plus, i’d been having a series of yucky dreams), so despite the rather early hour (for a weekend) and to my snoozing husband’s chagrin, i decided to pick [...]

tonight, after a few slightly disastrous attempts and a phone call to my dad for long-distance engineering assistance, i have hung the new hammock chair from my lovely sister up in my dining room. strange spot, you might think, but it is the sunniest room in the house and i’ve tucked it into an out-of-the-way [...]

today’s the first day of a four day weekend and i am sick. i got the same thing mr. happy stuff had at the beginning of the week, so at least i’ll have some idea of the progression it should follow. i actually left work a little early yesterday because my throat was starting to [...]

here they are! not the most beautiful loaves, a bit on the lumpy side, but i baked them and i’m pretty sure they’re going to taste awesome!

finally! we are getting snow today. beautiful, thick white piles in my lawn. best part? it’s a holiday and i don’t have to leave the house if i don’t want to. poor mr. happy stuff… his job doesn’t take this day off. i think i’ll bake some more homemade bread. i made a very successful [...]

i’ve been debating about whether to make this public or not, but …. here it is. one of my new year’s resolutions was to get rid of some of my stuff. i have too much stuff and sometimes i have a difficult time parting with it. so, i’ve been working up a new blog where [...]

sometimes i like a musical artist. and sometimes i like a music album. and sometimes i fall in love with a song. this morning, as i was setting up for toddler time at work i was listening (finally!) for the first time to the new dan zanes album, “catch that train” and was filled with [...]