"You're really going to pull the trigger, huh?" Eric and I must have been asked this 100 times in the last year before our move to Oregon.

 "It's time for us to make the change. The pieces all fell into place!"  Last December the family agreed, if our oldest got into he...

Okay - so time really did get away from me!  Holy Cow!  It's September!  My girls are settled back into school - a junior and a freshman in High School - wow!  Where did the time go? Fall is here and summer is gone (well, the summer heat is still here in Southern Cal!)...

It all began about nine months ago.  I was making a few pieces of jewelry for my eldest daughter to wear to her first Homecoming dance.  As I worked at the kitchen table, several of my daughter's friends stopped by to watch.  They asked questions about what type of ge...