I received my class load for the university today. 4 students, 2 of which are taking hour long lessons, so it’s really like having 6 students. And it was like I could breathe a great big sigh of relief. Last semester, the university lowered my husband’s pay and almost cut me because they had hired…
Learning how to get catchlights in the eyes of your photos subjects will elevate your photography in a big way! The first time I ever read anything about catchlights, (it was a layout by Cathy Zielske in the 2002 Scrapbooking Hall of Fame book entitled “Catchlights”) a whole new world of photography opened up to…
Our last day in NYC. It rained. A lot. So, not a ton of pictures as I was just trying to keep dry most of the time. We started out by taking a cab to Lincoln Center and browsing the Metropolitan Opera Shop. After we were done there we walked across the street to the…
Thursday was our touristy, see the sites of NYC, kind of day. After breakfast we went down to 34th Street where we did not have any miracles happen, but we did wait in a very long line to go to the top of the Empire State Building. After that we went down to Pier 83…
This post is dedicated to my mom for allowing it to even exist. Thanks mom, for a wonderful 33rd birthday spent with you in the Big Apple! (Picture taken in the Chicago airport during our unexpectedly long layover.) We slept through a doozy of a storm which shut down the subway system entirely, jam packed…
Day 4 was mostly spent driving to and in Lake Tahoe for my husband’s family reunion. We ate our last fancy meal and packed up to check out. We loaded ourselves in the car and were off to Tahoe. We drove for a while. I mention this because I read Harry Potter and the Deathly…
We started Day 3 just like all of the others: with a scrumptious breakfast of whatever the heck we wanted to eat. I think Embassy Suites has taken my heart through their amazing omelets. We headed out to the BART station where we caught a bus to visit the Legion of Honor art museum. It’s…
We spent most of our second day in San Francisco with my friend Hilary from Pulling Curls and her husband. Our husbands played in a brass quintet in college! After eating our omelets and leisurely getting ourselves showered and ready, we took the CalTrain down to Santa Clara where Hilary picked us up and took…
In July of 2007, my husband and I drove to San Francisco for a little getaway with just the two of us. At the time, our children were 6, 4, and not quite a year old. On the first day of our vacation we used the San Francisco CityPass to take a cruise around San…
Eternity has always been a concept that is a bit difficult for me to comprehend. I pretty much am okay with the part about there being no ending. Seems everything has to go on forever in one way or another. But I do find the “no beginning” part a little disconcerting. When I was a…
Every year at Christmas time, as I am trying to “balance the budget,” I begin to reflect on the many blessings we have received in the past year. It never fails that I can see that the windows of heaven have truly been pouring down upon us due to our commitment to paying tithing. In…
My oldest daughter had an eye appointment last week and it turns out she really needed glasses. Her eyes are almost as bad as her dad’s already, and well…she has blind me for a mother. She wasn’t so excited about the prospect of getting glasses until she saw the box of children’s frames that she…