Wolfgang Puck has been creating elaborate custom menus for Oscar night for 21 years now. And perhaps his most famous contribution to this star-studded night in Hollywood is the Golden Oscar Chocolates that the stars get to take home!! Several years ago, I had a big Oscar party where I went ALL OUT. That was the first year I tried making my own...
There are few sorrows so deep as that of losing a child. An even more unique twist is losing a child that you never really got the chance to know. Whether through miscarriage, stillbirth or infant loss, the tragedy of an infant child’s death is great. (Not greater than any other loss, but certainly different.) When our first daughter, Whitney, was stillborn, I...
Rarely have I ever read a book that felt like both a Cliff Notes version and an expanded and revised edition of a previous book. Marie Kondo’s accompaniment to her best-selling book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, entitled Spark Joy, is just that— both Cliff Notes and Expanded edition. While some may be quick to judge Spark Joy as a financial...
Everyone has pain at some point or another in their life. For some, suffering is just a season. It comes and it goes. But for others, pain is a way of life, something they live with every day. We all grow weary, weak and tired. This world is not our home and there are hardships that batter the hulls of our ships until...
Its a little past the middle of the week, but I hope these little bits of magic help get you through to the weekend! Here's what I'm loving this week: (hint: its not the blizzard that is currently outside my window!) food // Sausage, Potato and Spinach Soup Speaking of freaking cold snow, is there anything better than a big pot of warm,...
What do you do when your two year old is battling a snotty nose, has been up before 6am for a week and is fighting her midday nap? Well, I don't know what you would do but I mixed up a Spark drink and ate a piece of chocolate! And now I thought I'd take a quiet minute to share some mid-week magic...
I'm reading Elizabeth Gilbert's book "Big Magic" and it is fascinating and inspiring. (Or should I say, I was reading it until the Library check out on my Kindle ended and it took it away from me! Poof! Out of my hands. Back to the waiting list... #87.) Its a book on creativity and cultivating the creativity inside. I'm becoming more aware of...
I just finished reading the book Bronner by Sherri Burgess, and I am speechless. This book wrung my heart dry and filled it back up again. Sherri Burgess is the wife of Rick Burgess of The Rick and Bubba Show, a nationally syndicated talk radio show. The book tells the story of God's healing power after the tragic drowning death of her two year...
This morning, as Gia was at preschool, I was folding laundry in her room. Joanna was bouncing around from Legos to baby dolls. An ordinary morning with my extraordinary blessings. I had the bedroom window shades pulled up high. Its cloudy and overcast today but I always prefer natural light to anything else. At this point in the middle of winter, I’ll take...
