Hi there!

My name is Carol and I’m so happy you’re here. Can’t believe I celebrated my 73rd birthday earlier this year but grateful I did.

I’ve been thinking about writing this blog for a long time and have had many false starts along the way - until now. I’m definitely a lot older but believe after all these years I can blog from experience about many things, without being the expert on anything.

I’m the proud Mom of two and the proud Mimi of my 18-year-old GrandTwins.

But besides being a Mom and a Mimi, I’ve been a wife, “mature” college student, drapery designer/fabricator, waitress, facility planner, interior designer, home stager, business owner/entrepreneur and mortgage loan officer. Following that eclectic mix of career chapters, I was the GrandTwins’ full-time nanny from age six weeks to five years old, the live-in caregiver for my Dad who suffered with Alzheimer’s for many years, and most recently a freelance writer and content creator.

May have missed a few but as you can see, it has been a pretty interesting journey that I wouldn’t trade for the world. Creativity has always been an essential part of my life and has helped me through the ups and downs of life. It’s in my DNA. I thank generations of my French-Canadian family for that. They were known to build houses, furniture and even caskets!

If you wander around my house I promise you won’t find caskets, but you will discover all kinds of random things that I’ve acquired along the way. Things like my Ryobi cordless drill, my grandfather’s 100-year-old planer, a new Dremel, two sewing machines, all kinds of paint brushes, lots of gardening tools, tubes of glitter and way too many cans of paint. In fact, there’s so much stuff to choose from that the GrandTwins used to come over to scrounge up supplies for their school projects rather than go to the store first!

And I can’t deny it. I’ve rarely met a DIY project I didn’t want to tackle. From the initial idea through the planning, sawing, drilling, hammering, painting and more, I love it all. Well, almost all. Plumbing, electrical work and going under the house into the crawlspace for any reason are not for me. I leave that stuff to the experts on speed dial!

Anyway, if you’re still roaming around my house and make it to the attic, beware! You’ll also stumble across a bunch of containers filled with memorabilia and precious little that is useful, but a whole lot that’s still precious to me. Even though most of it is over 50 years old, I still think it’s way too soon to part with any of it. Who doesn’t like to look at old class pictures, ancient report cards, special greeting cards, baby pictures and your kids’ homemade gifts?

It's a walk down memory lane and well, I guess I just like to reminisce once in a while.  

So, at this stage of life when I pause from my many projects to reflect on things, I realize how blessed I am despite all the challenges life has thrown my way. And I really hope there’s a lot more living and creating in store for me so I can make many more memories and fill many more containers too. But please, don’t tell my kids that that’s my plan!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this and for giving me a chance to share a little about myself and my life. Without a doubt, I’ve done a whole lot of living already and hopefully there’s a whole lot of living to come!

I sincerely hope you’ll come back often to check out more of what I’ve learned over my 73 years, and even more of what I’m still learning, as I continue to live my life ... somewhere between the innocent days of marbles and the precious days of pearls.