Living Life Beautifully

I am amazed, sometimes, at how things work out without you realizing it. I have this little antique dresser in my house that was once my great grandmothers, according to my mother.  I looked at that dresser a little while ago, as I moved it to vacuum under it, and it occurred to me that it would not be sitting there if it weren't for some intervention from God or family from heaven watching over me. It was a dresser that was used by other people in my mothers family including my siblings and I when we were children.  It has been passed around, painted different colors and then stripped to its original wood. When my husband and I decided to move my great grandparents house, my mother said she wanted the dresser to go in this house once we moved in.  She liked the idea of it going back into its original home. Then my parents got a divorce.  It wasn't a very nice divorce and at some point my mother wanted to take the small dresser with her.  My dad reminded her tha...

4 weeks ago I decided to try growing a rose bush from a cutting.   I thought it might be a fun challenge, so I went online and read everything I could find on the subject. I had purchased a rose bush on clearance that looked a bit of a mess and had these small clusters of red roses.  Such a pretty plant and seemed to be a lot like one my great grandmother owned.   A family relative told me she grows new plants from the cuttings, so I decided to give it a try. There are so many different ways to grow a rose from a cutting, so I had to just pick one I thought might work best for me. I had some seed starter soil that is very light weight and thought that might be a good option. So, I washed up three pots and packed them with the soil. I had read that it is best to use a 6 inch cutting, but mine only turned out to be about three inches. I tried to leave a few small leaves on the cutting and then used a knife to carefully cut the outside skin off the bottom 1/2 inch of the ste...