Warm(er) Winter Weather

  The weather was phenomenal last weekend! Well, phenomenal by January-in-Wisconsin standards.  These things are relative, folks. So it was 40 degrees, and the sun was visible.  I’ll take it.  We had vague plans to go sledding Saturday morning, but then my hubby heard a rumor that the fish were biting in the bay in… Continue reading Warm(er) Winter Weather

The Happy Jar

We started a “happy jar” two years ago.  It was meant to capture the small, everyday moments that made us smile throughout the year.  Anything that made a member of the family happy was to be written down on a scrap of paper and deposited in the jar.  At the end of the year, we… Continue reading The Happy Jar