There’s nothing better than decorating a cozy home for the holidays–songs of the season playing in the background, a fire blazing in the fireplace—to remind us of how blessed we are. And since our kids love to help with this joyful endeavor, how about providing a few cool crafts made just for them?
Allowing our kids […]

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 12/2/07 
It is becoming more and more difficult to escape. Phones follow us wherever we go, e-mails ping and blackberries call to us with abbreviations as various TV’s bark for us to “call now!”. Our garages are filled with more cars that take us to more places in less […]

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 11/11/07
It is with a sigh of relief that I watch another Halloween season pass by. I now have just over 300 days to recover before the crawling blobs of mucus and beheaded skeletons leap upon me again.
I admit it…Halloween has never been my forte. I would even go so far […]

As I prepared for the huge job of painting our first floor, I skeptically leafed through the 2-inch by 2-inch color swatches that never appear on the wall like the same perfect hue we so painstakingly choose. I learned not to trust these “samples” years ago when our painter said the room in which we […]