Feb 10, 2013
Snow day! I LOVE a snow day. I think that I might like them even more now that I am a parent than I did when I was a kid. Okay, I’m not sure that’s actually possible – but I really do love a snow day. When I picked the kids up from school Thursday, [...]
Jan 25, 2013
I always think that the landscape outside at my house is beautiful. I doesn’t matter what season it is. Winter can be especially fetching with the great expanse of brilliant white snow on the hillside behind the house. Winter can also be a bit grey and plain old cold when all of that snow goes [...]
Jan 21, 2013
I know I have mentioned before that I have a wonderful and supportive husband who lavishes me with fantastic gifts. The gifts that he gives me might not be what every girl wants, but he sure does know how to get to my heart. I don’t remember exactly when this package arrived but it was [...]
Jan 6, 2013
Mr. Social Media just left with both of the kids to go skiing for the day. I’ve decided to spend the day rearranging and purging the kids’ rooms. I’ve enlisted help. I have a plan. This is a first-week-of-the-year kind of project! While I’m up to my elbows in clothes that don’t fit and broken [...]
Dec 31, 2012
It’s time to announce the WINNERS of the FOLK magazine giveaway! I’m so glad I get to do FIVE of them instead of just one! THANK YOU so much to everyone who signed up for a chance to win. Here are the Winners: Mary Beth Graham Carlanda Williamson Pat Stiller Deborah Klepac Terry Fryer If [...]
Dec 30, 2012
What an interesting year this has been. breida with a b. is not quite a year old yet. The official launch date (the date of my very first post) was in the first week of March. However, I got my DSLR for Christmas last year and the writing, planning, and picture taking really started just [...]
Dec 24, 2012
I got a little nervous when the Holidays rolled around this year. Just a little. See, I suddenly realized that, because I am a blogger now, that I would be expected to share my Christmas decorating here on the blog. And at first I was really excited about that. Then I started worrying about [...]
Dec 20, 2012
Have you seen this magazine? ENTER TO WIN ONE OF FIVE FREE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO FOLK MAGAZINE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST! I subscribe to several different magazines right now. And I love all of them. But, even though I love them, the sad truth is that I don’t actually read them. For the most [...]
Dec 18, 2012
Have you ever noticed that, sometimes, thing have to get worse before they can get better? Like when you are cleaning your house? Sometimes, once you start a big project, it has to get a LOT messier before things start to come together and look nice again? Does that only happen to me? Or does [...]
Dec 17, 2012
In case you were wondering. . . I am feeling better. On one of the final days that I was sick (when I was the sickest), I woke up at around 5:30am, kind of whining and moaning and Mr. Social Media stirred and said to me, “Do you need anything?” And I whined louder, “I [...]
