Friday Faves

Hello and happy Friday. source: unknown My husband and I were at our daughter's basketball game—masked and socially distanced and where each player is tested weekly and only allowed two spectators per player—talking about how weird it felt to be there. "Happy 2021," we'd ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Happy New Year and happy Friday. Happy New Year and thank you thank you thank you to all of YOU for getting me through 2020. Wow. It has finally, FINALLY arrived! 2021 IS HERE! I certainly don't need to be yet another one to chime in, but hells bells, I'm happy to say a ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hi, hello, and happy Friday. I was in the middle of rolling meatballs for dinner when I received a text from one of my friends that a former co-worker of ours had tragically passed away earlier that day. She passed the way you only hear about in grand works of literature ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hello and happy Friday. By this time next week, we'll be looking back on a day of Thanksgiving that looked totally different than years past, but feeling grateful and thankful for all that we DO have nonetheless. With so many people out of work, without family, or simply ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hey hey and happy Friday friendlies. Does anyone else feel like November has already been 63 days long? So much, so much, so much. So much change, yet so much that is still the same Every.Single.Day. In addition to fall sweaters, snowflakes in the forecast, and slurping ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hello and happy Friday. Look around. Take a breath. Have a stretch. We made it! It's Friday. Everything around us is amping up. More and more of the C-word cases are emerging fast. So much election angst. More hardships. More restrictions. More people ignoring the ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hello and happy Friday! Next weekend we'll be celebrating Halloween, and what a totally weirdo Halloween it will be. The parties, the pumpkin patches, hay rides, and the haunted houses are all looking and feeling a whole lot different this year. We live on a steep hill so ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hey hey and welcome back Friday. I was making our favorite soup (I added matzo balls) for dinner when I absent-mindedly asked my husband what day it was. "Wednesday," he replied. What? "Already?" I asked. "It's already Wednesday? Oh man, I need to get started on Friday ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hello and haaaappy autumnal weekend! It seems like summer is the time when most people find themselves more and more out and about in the great outdoors. But for me, fall is my prime time. The cooler weather, the creep of slowness, the changing flora, and knowing that this ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hello and happy Friday! Can you feel it? It's here. The warmth of the sun as it slants and shadows earlier in the afternoon. The final days of the best garden tomatoes. Pumpkin flavored everything. Fuzzy sweaters and sun-kissed chilly cheeks. Boots. Warm straw, oranges, ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hello and happy Friday! Who else is ready to relax and enjoy an easy breezy lazy weekend where the perfect sunny side egg forecasts a great weekend ahead? Weekends = my love language. You've heard of the Love Languages, right? My friend Ali was the first to tell me about ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hey hey and happy Friday! Over the past few years, I've tried to be better. A better friend. A better neighbor. A better daughter and sister. A better wife and mother. I call my mom more. I try to check in with friends on a regular basis. I don't do an about face back ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hey hey and happy Fri-YAY! At our house, this is the last weekend before school begins. That's why earlier this week I was able to persuade my daughter and a couple of her friends to join me at the lake for an afternoon soaking up the sun and floating in the ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hello and happy Friday. First off, my heart breaks for those who have lost loved ones, homes, and lives due to the explosion in Lebanon. What an incredible tragedy. Another reminder that today is your day, so make it the best you can. Secondly, summer food is peaking! ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hello hello and happy Friday! Thanks to a series of non-related, no-big-deal, going-about-our-business events, this has been one of the weirdest and fun weeks I've had in a long, long time. It's so weird how things can seem to totally not be going right, then with one ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hey hey and happy Friday! For many years, I've heard stories from people of a certain age, specifically my mom and my MIL, recalling childhood memories of the entire family being loaded into the car for long, aimless, Sunday drives or day-long excursions to see family who ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hello hello and happy summer. We're officially half way through the year and I think it's safe to say, 2020, we are so over you already. In years past, this time of summer would come and I'd feel like I had no idea where time went. Not this year. I know exactly where ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hello friends, and happy Friday! This week I ate an entire watermelon which means I can officially declare summer has arrived. There is seriously nothing more summer-like than standing over the kitchen sink with pink juice running down my chin, taking a big bite out of ... continue reading... about Friday Faves

Hi, hi! And happy Friday. If life had an answering machine, this would be my current message, "Hello. You've reached Heidi's life. Please hold." You feeling me? ... continue reading... about Friday Faves