A Story to Warm Your Heart

My husband said to me this morning, “This is the day I first asked you out, 27 years ago. “ “It is?” I said. “Wow.” Playfully, I added, “Well, do you regret it?” He paused and answered, “Not yet.”

#AlaskaProblems

We don’t have a mailbox in front of our house here in Alaska. No one does, apparently, unless you live in town. The mailboxes are all out on the main road in a cluster, to make it easier for the mailman, I suppose. So I have to pull up to the line of mailboxes in my car to get my mail

Getting in the Christmas Spirit

It’s Christmas time again, and I’ve been enjoying listing to holiday music in my car. I find it quite festive! (My husband and teenage daughters disagree. Scrooges.)  Click here to see last year’s crushing of the Christmas song. This year is my first Christmas in Alaska, so it’s a new experience; it seems so much more

The Lost Remote

We recently bought an amazon “fire stick” to use with our TV. It’s pretty great; we can use it to watch Netflix or Hulu or Amazon Prime video, etc., but there’s one problem with it. The remote is REALLY small. I think we’ve lost it about twenty times in the past couple of months. The last

Learning what COLD really means

It’s winter in Alaska now, and that means it’s getting cold. Of course, I knew that it would get cold. I just didn’t know what cold really WAS, apparently. Because it is really getting cold. Really REALLY cold. I dropped the kids off at school Tuesday and it was only 2 degrees! I took a picture

It’s getting dark up here…

Here’s a photo of sunrise over my house this morning. I took this AT NINE A.M!!! This Alaska thing is starting to get real…

The Joys of Home Ownership

After renting for the past ten years, my husband and I are enjoying the benefits of owning our own home. In other words, STUFF KEEPS BREAKING. Here is the latest: A mysterious fridge leak that has gone undetected for who-knows-how-long. Ugh.   I’m in the process of fixing the water-damaged wall; my husband is fixing

We survived our first Alaskan power outage

One of the things I was really concerned about upon moving to Alaska was the idea of power outages. Since I knew we were going to be living in a place where the weather is cold enough to be actively life-threatening the majority of the year, therefore making electricity even more essential, I asked around if

A Lesson in Safety

I was preheating the oven in the new house for the first time. When I opened it, I noticed something sort of puddled in the bottom. Was it water? I took a paper napkin and dabbed at the spot.  Yes, that’s right. I used a paper napkin in a four hundred degree oven. I never

Can’t you just take care of it?

I may have mentioned that I left my husband behind in Hawaii to deal with the whole process of moving by himself while I larked off with the kids to visit the family and have a relaxing vacation. Oh yeah. Score! Anyways, I keep thinking of things I forgot to tell him to do (usually at midnight) and