Cake Monday

It's hard to make a Monday better. With a full work day, classes, and coaching Quidditch (oh, did I say coaching? I mean trying to keep 12 boys from stabbing each other with brooms or pelting each other in the face with black dodgeballs) at the start of the week, I can get a pretty bad case of the Mondays pretty darn quickly. The best remedy? A little something my college roommies cooked up: "Cake Monday".

My Favorite Wonky Words

I love words. I love the sound of them strung sweetly together and how a single word or syllable can invoke all sorts of feelings. I sort of collect words. 

Not in a stamp collection or dictionary kind of way, but I wear certain words on my tongue like flavors of the week (or month, or year, or what have you). To make it into my casual repertoire, a word must meet the following criteria:

Mini Chocolate Chip Scones

Chocolate chip scones in a smaller version that's much more endearing. :)

To Sleep: Perchance to Dream

Sleep. Mmmmm sleep.

There are times when the whisper of that word sounds so lovely... Grab a fluffy pillow (or a pillow case with about 3 feathers if you're Jk), and cozy up to these wonderfully sleepy thoughts:

Beauty Buys--September

Sharing some of my beauty buys to spruce up a casual look as we head into fall. Enjoy!

Home

Home is different than a house.  Home is where your heart feels full and you feel safe. A house is where you live. Sometimes they're the same. Sometimes they're not.

When I picture home, this is what I see.

But when I really think of home, I think of something that will come much later.

It was the Unicorn who summed up what everyone was feeling..."I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now. The reason why we loved the old Narnia is that it sometimes looked a little like this."

--CS Lewis, The Last Battle

A Cause to Believe In

Jk wears this green bracelet all the time. It's one of those rubber, livestrong-like bracelets that only cost about $2, but it means the world to me.