About Me

When you live in a somewhat remote area and don't have an unlimited budget, you gotta learn to make your own good food and fun.  I left my job the day my first daughter was born.  That's okay, because I love my life, and I love what  I get to do and I chose to do this.  It also helps that my husband is particularly easy on the eyes and my girls are non-stop entertainment factories.  This is me with my girls.

I  think things happen for a reason, and I cherish the chance for this lifestyle because it very nearly wasn't mine.
I went through three years of infertility and treatments, which I began blogging about then stopped because I just couldn't stomach it.  IUI's, IVF, you name it, and I went through it.  Multiple times.  I kept the pee stick companies in business.  And after all of that, I was told I wouldn't be able to have children on my own.  I lived with that knowledge for months before becoming very sick.  Turns out, the fertility drugs screwed my natural hormones up so badly I had to go to an oncologist and hematologist to get fixed back up.  I lost two babies before having my amazing little girl in February of '09 when I was 34.  My second girl followed 15 months later.  Sometimes I look  at them and can't believe they are really here.
I love being creative...its my outlet for those tough days, frustrations and an antidote to the general and unstoppable busy-ness of life.  I love to cook.  I really don't like to clean, but I do it because I have to.  We have a 1940's little dollhouse of a cape that we added a second floor onto the top of.  The house and I are still recovering.  But, this not so little renovation should generate enough projects to keep this blog in business for quite some time.