I've always had a love/hate relationship with Wednesday. Sure it has a classy nickname, "Hump Day," with an entire commercial dedicated to it. It does signify the middle of the week. If you are a glass-half-full person, that means only two days left in the work week. Or, if you are a glass-half-empty kinda girl [...]
Author: Susan Wheeler Smith
I love Jesus, my family, and dark roast coffee with a bit of sugar and heavy cream. I live on a gorgeous lake in Southwest Virginia. I'm a bit on the sarcastic side with a whole lot of love and encouragement for women in every stage of life. I have a serious addiction to books, kitchen towels, and the Oxford comma. Welcome.
Snow Day #2.
Snow Days. Now that the kids are all grown up...I love them. Let's face it, when you have children Snow Days are Extra Work Days for moms. Snow clothes, hot cocoa, breaking up fights...at least that was the way it was here at Smith Abbey. Whilst in the midst of it, I was not such [...]
Snowy-sleety Day Means Soup Day.
This was our day. Chilly, rainy, sleety, snowy, and icy. Sounds like five of the Dwarfs from Snow White. It was pretty yucky out and the roads were slippery. Which didn't bother me as I sent all the minions out to do my bidding and remained indoors, nice and toasty. A perfect day to make [...]
It’s not about the tree.
I loved blogging every day in November. I loved the break, for a few days, from blogging. I also missed blogging the last few days. I'm complex like that. It is finally Christmas in the Smith household. How do I know? Because I can't stop stressing about all I have to get done. Shopping...I don't [...]
This is why I don’t get anything done.
I have a ton of Christmasy-related stuff to be doing. Not to mention putting all of the china and glassware back in the corner cabinet and pulling the good stainless out of the everyday stainless kitchen drawer.Instead of working and thinking about those things, I have pulled the master bedroom apart and I am giving [...]
Day After Thanksgiving Tradition.
Today, we all head West to the Christmas Tree Farm. We do this every year the day after Thanksgiving. For the first time ever, My Girl is working and not going with us. I'm trying not to think about it. I might end up balled up in the corner sucking my thumb if I dwell [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Just a quick good morning and wishing you the happiest of Thanksgiving days. Our house is quiet and still. For ten minutes more. At 9:00, the troops will be roused and the quiet will be broken with teen and twenty-somethings moaning and groaning and grumbling. And I couldn't be more happy to hear it in [...]
Some thoughts on this Thanksgiving Eve.
I stuck around in bed for an extra hour and a half after I woke up this morning. Snug as a bug, thinking about past Holiday Season celebrations. By the way, I am totally cool with referring to the time frame between Halloween and the first week of January as The Holidays or The Holiday [...]
A List. For Tuesday. And for Diane S-S.
1. I was checking out my blog stats the other day and was absolutely blown away by y'all. Thank you so much! So, only 6 of you are commenting regularly...what is up with you 75-100 other regular folks? Please pop in with a comment, just to say Hey. I have to have "traffic" on my [...]
The Best Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. Ever.
I hope you didn't come here looking for a chocolate chip cookie recipe. There isn't one here. Truthfully, I have a really good chocolate chip cookie recipe. Two, actually. One is on the back of the Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chip package and the other is in the Betty Crocker Cookbook my Mame gave me when [...]
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