Denim & Silk

I am learning to be positive. It is very tempting to think thoughts like, “This is going to be one of those days!” Do you know that every time I have thought I will have “one of those days,” I have been right? The thing is that when you tell yourself that you will have [...]

I like to drink hot herbal teas, yet I don’t care for the taste of cold tea. My favorite flavor has always been vanilla hazelnut. Not anymore. Since I have cut back on my sugar and have experimented with unsweetened hot tea, I no longer care for vanilla hazelnut. It is awful with no sugar! [...]

I can’t stand to have others say or think negative things about me. I realize this is not logical because of all the people in this big world, someone is bound to think something negative about me. But I guess logic doesn’t always rule, especially when it comes to feelings.  If someone does think something [...]

I like routine. Now those of you who know me may be saying, “huh?!” It would seem that my life has very little routine. I have discovered that I actually have several routines that I perform throughout the day. One is at bedtime. I always check the door and windows, cover the kids up, get [...]

Music is addictive to me. If a person sings one line of a song, it is very possible that I will be singing that song the rest of the day. If someone else starts whistling, I will do it without even thinking. Once when I was in the high school band, my flute broke while [...]

I have not had many favorite colors. For some reason I usually just pick a color and stick with it. The only ones I can remember since childhood are blue and pink. Amazingly, my favorite color seems to be shifting now. Wanna guess what color? C’mon, you know you want to. Go ahead! Okay, my [...]

I’m a country girl. I wasn’t raised on a farm, but my grandparents, who lived across the road from us, had a garden that we got to help with. Most of the vegetables we ate were home grown. I’ll never forget the wonderful smell of dirty potatoes! We also had apple trees and tons of [...]

I have no natural organization skills. My idea of organization (at best) has always been just to have everything out of sight wherever it fit! Fortunately, my husband came up with a brilliant plan for organization that works! Luke’s idea is to throw tradition out the window and to basically put things where it makes [...]

When I was in the 5th grade, my grandpa gave me a very difficult decision to make. He offered to pay for either piano lessons or for me to play the flute in the band. After much thinking, I chose the flute (although I would still love to be able to play piano)! The very [...]

I love the smell of rain! Today I had to run out and close the windows in the van because it was starting to rain. Because it wasn’t raining hard, I was able to take in that wonderful scent of rain! There’s just nothing quite like it!

I love cats but will probably not ever have one of my own! During my childhood years, we always had at least one cat. On a nice day, I would sometimes go out and sit on the hood of the car with a cat in my lap. I LOVE cats! But from from now own, [...]

I like to play with words. Whether it be spoonerisms, alliteration, homonyms, or rhymes, I love word play! As a matter of fact, I play with words so often that I sometimes do it on accident. Actually, let’s be honest hear, I frequently do it on accident, especially woonerizing spords! So, if ever I say [...]

Image via Wikipedia My lips don’t turn up when I smile. As a matter of fact, it is not uncommon for them to actually turn down when I smile. But even when I am not smiling my “lips turned down” smile, my lips are just straight. Do you think that is odd? I would love [...]

I highly dislike laundry, but I insist on doing it. I am weird about my laundry. I don’t like doing it but would rather do it than have someone else do it wrong. Yes, it is crazy, but it seems to be the story of my life. I would rather do all the work myself [...]