"For my little sister, Katelynn. Katelynn is my maid-of-honor. I wanted to commemorate the experience for her (which she has taken very seriously) in something she can physically keep and look at. Feel free to crop/edit the picture as needed!"…
"my husband and i in the 1st snd my kiddos in the 2nd."The Gold Evelyn Locket Necklace means so much to share because it's named after my grandmother, Evelyn, on my Mom's side. The Evelyn Locket is named after our maternal Grandma. She was a mother of ten kids, raised them all on a farm in the Minnesota River Valley with our Grandpa Norbert. We remember her Sunday pork roasts, the way she roc…
When I was 12 my little brother joined my family. He was six. Or at least this is how I remember the numbers. I also remember that he took my seat at the dinner table, and I didn't like that. I hated it actually. I was ending fifth grade, entering sixth. He had spent a few weekends with my family before then, with my parents and three older siblings and I, but this was permanent. My Mom was h…
The Dorothy Locket is named after my my Mom's best friend of almost 40 years. I brought her a jar of homemade soup and another of flowers from my garden on Tuesday evening because she taught me to do that for people when she did that every time my Mom had cancer or my family needed anything. ⠀My Mom has had cancer three times. Three different times. Not like it happened, then it relapsed, but like…
WHAT DOES 2020 WANT FROM US?In like a lion, out like...two lions? Three? A whole pack maybe?I started this year with the decision that I was going to cut corn out of my diet, and that it would be all the earth-shattering change I’d need to go from wherever I was to wherever I was headed. Corn gives me headaches, makes me feel really achy, and I figured this would suffice as far as evolving for the…
