Next Week Is Craft Week
If you want serious crafting projects, there are a ton of great blogs out there for that. If you want simple projects that aren't hard and take minimal skills, then this is the place to be next week! I plan to have a new project every day with tutorials for simple but nice projects that could

Happy Thanksgiving
I so totally am.

A Few Random Thoughts
My blog entries have been sketchy for a lot of reasons, not least of which is the great computer switchover. Wow, I had no idea this could be such a pain. Photos, programs, documents, iTunes. iTunes and I are having it out right now, and it's winning so far. It's apparently smarter than me, and it's making me come face-to-face with my (bordering on unhealthy) attachment to my iPod. I have a lot on my mind, but I don't know how much of it I want to share here. I was struck hard a couple of weeks ago with the first real understanding of being aliens and strangers in this world and longing for home (heaven), as I was confronted with the frailty of our bodies and life

A Crisis of Cats and Dogs
We had a Mail Time crisis the other day involving this little guy: Doogie lives for Mail Time. He's always waiting in the foyer at approximately 2pm every day, as he knows that's usually when we go out for the mail. He comes outside with me and enjoys sniffing around and gnawing on

Life Insurance
I did something today that goes against my personal financial policy: I accepted an offer over the phone. My husband has kidney disease. We discovered it years ago when we were applying for life insurance. The insurance company required a urine test, and all tests kept coming back funny on him. A regular doctor, a nephrologist, and a kidney biopsy later, we learned he has IgA Nephropathy, which is a form of kidney disease. Suddenly, our plans for getting him any life insurance evaporated at the moment of diagnosis. Kidney disease is the big black mark in the insurance industry. No one would cover him. I even went so far as to call the National Kidney Foundat