Clean, Simple, Restful To My Eyes

I was up until 1:30 am this morning with about 17 tabs open in Chrome and Firefox, trying to find theme colors that worked in both systems and matched my flower logo, until my eyes felt like they would pop out of my head. And then about an hour ago, while looking up yet another question on the Studiopress forum, I saw it. An announcement that Studiopress released a free child theme for Genesis, named Georgia. I installed it, and suddenly it was like my brain could rest. Things are very stressful here at home right now (nothing new, just the usual money and kids and life stuff), and I just don't need to fuss. A million thank yous to Brian Gardner and the Studiopress team for releasing Georgia. Free, Clean, Simple, Elegant - it was like they read my mind. I will put my purple flower logo up in the title as soon as I figure out how. See, when IZEA gave me a free custom theme, it came with no files and no support. The purple flower logo was incorporated into the entire header … [Read more...]

Wordless Wednesday 5-25-11 – Pictures from Lake Michigan

With Elena from Mommy Is In Timeout on Day 1

I showed you mine, now show me yours! … [Read more...]

What Would Elizabeth Do? This.

So. You are probably wondering just what the heck is going on here. If you are one of my fabulous regular readers, you've seen a couple of posts in the last few days that might have you scratching your head wondering what I am up to. Posts that aren't what you are used to seeing here on Table for Five. I'm going to explain why. Chris gets paid every other Wednesday, and his last check hit our account on the 18th. I dropped Kaitlyn off at preschool that morning, then went to the credit union, withdrew the money for the mortgage and the car payment, then hit BOA for the one and CASE Credit Union for the other. That evening after dinner he and I collected all the bills and sat down to start paying them. Chris logged into online banking to see if there were any withdrawals we had missed, and got a surprise. We had $400 in our checking account. We had been NEGATIVE when his check hit, then I took out the mortgage and car payment, and whammo, we were down to $400. For two … [Read more...]