writing hiatus... has the drought come to an end i am still not sure -Amy Lyon Smith I have been silent for a while. A year and half to be precise. The last words I left here were found in my Tuesday Truth #72. I needed to spend some time taking my own advice. Words [...]
Five Years of Blogging. First off. Happy New Year!! Sometimes it seems so wild to me that I've been here sharing parts of my life for so long. Today, Bedlam and Daisies turn five years old! 5 years! In the scheme of a lifetime a part of me thinks that five years sounds short, but [...]
Choices. We all have them. Don't we? Some big. Some small. And all those in-between. I could have come here today and shared my monthly reads from May. That was my planned topic of conversation for the first week of June. And yet, it feels wrong to not acknowledge the atrocity of a stolen life. [...]
Four Years of Blogging. Today Bedlam & Daisies turns four! When I started this blog at the beginning of 2016, I had no idea that I'd still be blogging four years later. I mean, I thought I might, but I really had no plans around it. The blog was a place for me to try [...]
Three years ago, I wrote a love letter to my daughter. A love letter to my youngest child. Miss Sunshine. My only girl, who was just entering into the teenage years. Interestingly, the love letter that sat in the recesses of this blog, and had been seen by around 100 pairs of eyes before 2019, [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 47. Does anyone else feel this way? I know we often think of spring as this bursting forth of new life, but the fall also feels like a new beginning. A time to shed all the things that no longer serve us. To let the old fall away. To have a new [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 46. Happy Tuesday!! And Happy First Day of October! I'm back from my travels, refreshed, renewed and ready to continue tackling the journey. I am just beginning to look to see what October holds. I'm hoping to carve out more time for writing! I see that I have lots of soccer chauffeuring [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 45. Currently, I am far away. Not as far away as my photo. I am in Florida. I traveled down to the Gainesville area for my grandfather's memorial. Then I continued on to my parents' home down in Naples for a visit and to celebrate my mother's birthday this coming Thursday. I'm [...]
It happened again! You may be asking what happened again. Well, I blinked my eyes and another one of my children crossed the threshold into adulthood. Yep! On August 17th, son #2 (Mr D) turned 18. I wrote about this second blessing of mine when he turned 15 (you can read that post here). I [...]
Tuesday Truth. Number 41. I thought this quote quite perfect given that my youngest has returned to school. It was very strange to be down to the last of my three for the first day of school. My life has been dictated by school schedules since 2005. If you count the part-time half days of [...]
