Table for Eight

Reasons I am SO Glad It's May 1. April felt like one LONG month. 2. Mother's Day is in May and we are grateful for a lot of amazing moms/women in our lives (our moms, birthmoms, grandparents ...). 3. It's our Aunt Beth's bday. (And she is a RAD Aunt.) 4. It's getting warmer--and we have had one LONG winter. Holy crap it has been a lotta colder days in a row. For a lotta months in a row. BRING THE HEAT. 5. Cinco de Mayo is in May(o)! Hope you are having a great May, too! XOXO, Dawn PS: This week's photos are a collage of my current mania wth sewing and trying to be like Eve on Alaska's Last Frontier, our awesome neighbors, and Elder Meehan's week in the mission field. Our neighbors built this incredible Mini-Library. Cool, right? (PS: it's a company! You can register your library with them--or even buy the library via them.) I am making my own vanilla. (Like I said, my current obsession with Alaska's Last Frontier ha...

Met this guy Saturday while Dave and I were visiting a working farm in our area. Hilarious. I mean, turkeys are seriously trippy looking. For as long as I can remember I have been a To Do List kinda person. I make a list for myself each morning. I make a list for our kids (well, now that they are older, it's not so much a list as a calendar). And I make a HUGE list on our chalkboard wall each Sunday night with the BIG events, appointments, holidays or due dates for our family. I'm not sure why, but there's just something that makes me more calm/happy about seeing things on a list.  Now before you say "Oh, that's a Type A Personality thing" or "Lists are for X kinda person," l et me just say this: the lists aren't about achieving something, and  I usually don't panic if I can't complete everything them, t he lists just help me feel some calm and control in a world that is fairly detailed and often UNCONTROLLABLE. Yanno wha...