We love when guests come to visit! After a long journey, I know I want to unpack and settle into a lovely environment. Since we have had many guests recently, here are 10 ways to prepare your home for overnight guests. 1. A Comfortable Bed Perhaps the thing I miss most when I travel is…
Every time I write a Saturday Meanderings I cannot believe another week has flown by! As I am composing this I am sitting in the waiting room at Superior Court of Arizona, recently summoned for Grand Jury duty. I have never done this before and it will be interesting to see if I am part…
When I google-searched holidays in January, I certainly found more than I needed. Today, January 15th is everything from National Strawberry Ice Cream Day to National Pothole Day. Who the heck makes these decisions? Anyway, I didn’t realize it is a real holiday weekend with Martin Luther King Day on Monday. As you read Saturday…
Do you treat the new year as a time to start fresh? Are new resolutions made? For me, I like to think of it as a time of assessment and evaluation. Looking back on the previous year, I note the highlights and the low points~what went well, and what things I’d like to change. And…
I am so excited to be back at writing my blog again. We finally took my husband’s very belated big birthday trip to St. Thomas last week. This whole pandemic thing truly makes everything so much more complicated. The trip originally started as a river boat cruise down the Rhine River to see the European…