Two thoughts to help if your children aren’t exactly undisciplined, but somehow you expend a lot of energy keeping them from falling apart.
A little gift-giving guide
A little LMLD gift-giving guide, and lots of links!
Getting the hydrangea blooms in before the frost
If you follow me on Instagram, you saw my hydrangea harvest. I do hang them up to dry — there are so many blooms on my one little tree (and this is after I helped my friend’s stash for wedding reception decoration). I have a big basket in my bedroom that I stuff them into… Read More »
{bits & pieces}
The weekly “little of this, little of that” feature here at Like Mother, Like Daughter! (This will all look and work better if you click on the actual post and do not remain on the main page.) The peonies are blooming — what a gift! Their scent is heavenly. I am still “procrastibaking” (link… Read More »
Ordinary beauty.
If you’ve ever heard a talk given by me in the past year or two, you’ve heard me dwell for a bit on a lovely observation from Roger Scruton on beauty. He points out that there are two kinds of beauty: “The individual, expressive and revealing gesture, and ordinary harmony and fittingness. In everyday life it… Read More »