Functional Woodwork for your Home
I hate to use the infant car seat comparison again but here it is. Do you remember the first time your child vomited in their car seat? You had to take the thing apart so you could get every bit of vomit from every nook and cranny. Putting the car seat back together brought a …
The field of eating disorders, or nutrition in general, can be very overwhelming (as I’m sure a lot of people will say that about their own field). First of all, nutrition is constantly changing- there’s always new research out there and one person’s body can respond differently to one diet than the next person. Twenty …
That is a good question- one that I’ve been asking myself. What happened to writing a post at least every other week? What happened to finishing a project each month? Well, lack of electricity got in the way- but also life. The first issue came with my circuit breaker in the garage. I’m not sure …
Since Halloween is such a big holiday for my husband, I knew better than to schedule clients in my private practice for that evening. So what did this mean? I essentially had a day off with about 5 hours where the sitter would be watching the kids. Yay! I thought a lot about this day …
Up until my box-making class, I kind of thought that the Woodworkers’ Club was simply a place where people could come and use top of the line equipment to build things for their homes. Little did I know that it was also housing some truly amazing artists. During my first two classes there, I think …
When I had my first child, I finally began to understand peoples’ comments about how painful it is to try to read an instruction manual. When the manual begins with talk of decapitation and ejection during a collision, I think anyone would find it hard to focus on what feels like 8 point font after …
When I first began this adventure into woodworking, I utilized the 1.5-2 hour naptimes that my kids took on the weekends to work on my projects. This worked well since it wasn’t taking time away from the little ones or leaving my husband to fly solo too often. This was going well until life started …
Remember how I said my dad gave me some equipment to get me started? Well a miter saw was one of those items. When we were loading it up into my vehicle, he very casually made a comment about how I might notice that the back fence is “off a little.” And? I was getting …
…and it wasn’t the end of the world, or me. Day #3 of my class came with instructions to do additional rip cuts. Well, I’ll call them “ripish” cuts since we were tapering legs. There was of course a jig for this and by now, the instructor was pretty confident in our skills around a …
For me, day #2 of this class was all about the rip cut. When I was a little girl in gymnastics, the phrase “psyched out” was used frequently around the gym. Someone would be standing on the beam, arms in the air, ready to do a back handspring. And they would stand there and stand …
I took my first woodworking class, Fundamentals of Woodworking, last February at the Woodworkers Club. It was taught by a very nice gentleman who had been woodworking for 20 years and seemed to know a lot about the art. As I mentioned in an earlier post, he felt you should go ahead and purchase more …
This question came from my 3½ year old a few months ago. Silence filled the car. “Uuummmmm.” Silence was NOT filling my head. Where is this coming from? I didn’t even know she knew the word “healthy” yet. How do I respond to that? (Now don’t tilt your head and begin to think that she …