Do Life Right

Click here to read “Prickly Pear Fruit Harvesting PART ONE”.
Click here to read “Prickly Pear Fruit Harvesting PART TWO”.
Now that you’ve picked the fruit from the prickly pear, it is time to prepare it. We prefer a “no touch” method, which doesn’t involve any knives or accidental touching. Click here for a great [...]

See “How to: Make Nifty Book Boxes for Our Triwizard Tournament Task 3” for the first part of this topic.
We made two puzzles for Task 3 of our Tri-Wizard Tournament: a crossword puzzle and a cypher. The cypher gave directions to the Champions of what they were supposed to do in Task 3. [...]

For the past 2.5 years I, with the help of a really great team, have been working on our software company, ZenActOS, Inc. We’ve been seriously pursuing our first round of funding (as the experts correctly told us to say) for over a year. While we are still raising our first round of [...]

I’ve been asked how it is that I’ve come to be so confident. Interesting question!
This post could have been titled “How to Love Yourself”, as confidence and love go hand-in-hand.
A while ago my youngest daughter asked me, “Who do you love most in this world?”
I replied, “It’s a three way tie between you, your [...]

I’ve been enjoying making pillows since I was twelve and received my first sewing machine. I’ve recently shared my love of pillow making with my Girl Scout troops. We made simple 4 square checkered pillows. My 7.5 year old daughter loved it so much, she made one completely by herself the next [...]

Here are the photographs first, then the directions. These photographs are a year old and don’t show the full extent of our dyeing, but they’ll give you an idea of what the possibilities are.

I first got the great idea of dyeing fabric with Sharpie markers from one of my favorite kid’s science catalogs, Steve [...]

My daughter needed dragon eggs. Since dragons are rare and difficult to find, combined with the fact that we’re vegan and try never to use animal products (especially the babies of a species), we’ve been working on creating our own magically made up ones. Here’s how we did it:

Get a large plastic Easter [...]

I enjoy playing in Webkinz World every day (my kids like Webkinz a lot, but I think I like it more). Playing games on Webkinz is a meditative and relaxing part of my regular day. Everyone needs something in their day that is relaxing. Webkinz is one of mine. I also [...]

I’ve recently been judging a novel writing contest (which I cannot give out any details about, but, of course, it’s a great contest). I’m finding the judging to be loads of fun. I’m reading books that I normally would not read and that is always of great interest to me. I’ve found [...]

My daughters have been watching their Dad and I their whole lives. They live fully with us and are within hollering distance nearly 24 hours every single day. What this means on a day-to-day basis is that they see us in all our glory: the good and the bad. My husband and I [...]