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February 7, 2012
YAY! FARMERS! by Carl
In 1968, I was one of the chosen few lucky enough and blessed enough to grow up in an Ohio farming community.
A family friend (a farmer) was always known to say "treat your work like play and have fun all day". How true this simple mantra...
February 3, 2012
We awoke to 12 inches of snow this morning in Denver and still counting . . .
YAY! SNOW DAY! Hope all of our friends in Colorado are getting to enjoy being snowed in like we are. Sleeping in, hot tea, reading, Carl's homemade french toast, bacon and oatmeal, marbles,...
January 25, 2012
Carl talks with 9 News about focusing on the little things in life, whether that be family, love or even bacon. YAY! 9News. Thanks for helping us share our story.
January 10, 2012
It is once again my privilege to introduce our friend Lynne Kinghorn, who has graciously agreed to contribute to our blog. If you missed it the first time . . .
Lynne's a mixed breed--psychologist-writer or writer-psychologist (depending on her mood and bank account). Her Yay!s...
January 4, 2012
Hello! My father walks around the house and says 'Yay Turtles' and other phrases beginning with 'Yay'. He has a neurological disease (thankfully his brain is still highly functioning) and he finds socializing difficult these days. Hence he falls back into a whimsical pattern of...
December 31, 2011
As we draw near to the end of 2012, we want to share a submission we received earlier this month from Miranda . . .
"Hi there, first of all I love your website and I think the message is wonderful. I was strolling down the street the other day in Denver and saw a stencil on the...
December 27, 2011
It seems the holidays have been all about sleep here at YAY! LiFE! We hope all of you are finding the time to take care of yourself and take advantage of the dark season by getting your hibernation on. There's nothing quite like surrendering to bed, engulfed by soft sheets,...
December 24, 2011
We'll keep this one short and sweet. It's Christmas today at our house because Santa visited us last night since the small person at our house won't be here tonight.
We here at YAY! LiFE! are wishing you the merriest of merries, abundance, peace and love this holiday...
December 22, 2011
So Carl and I got hitched today. In our lovely state of Colorado you can get married without an officiant or a judge, so Carl and I married ourselves in a snowstorm on the winter solstice in a simple ceremony down by the river with Clary and Belle as witnesses.
Thanks to Clary...
December 22, 2011
YAY! DAUGHTERS! by Carl
Pink, hot, beautiful ball. Teeny little fingers-even teenier toes. Napping on my chest. Toothless giggles. Bedtime lullabies. Baby snores. Fuzzy pajamas.
Kissable cheeks. Kitchen sink baths. Tiny spoons. Bouncy chairs. Rocking horses. "Don't sweety, that hurts...
The 12 Days of Christmas - YAY! LiFE! style or the 12 YAY!s of Christmas - YAY! YULE! YAY! SOLSTICE!
December 21, 2011
I have to confess, until this year, I had no idea that Yule and Winter Solstice were one and the same. I have celebrated the solstices for many years and winter solstice has always been the more meaningful to me. Something about the longest night of the year is just so profound to me...
December 20, 2011
Carl and I are getting ready to spend our 3rd Christmas together and we have started a new tradition with his daughter, Clary. We buy her a Christmas book and give it to her several weeks ahead so that we can read the holiday stories to her. The first year we were together we found...
December 19, 2011
Every year I look forward to this time when eggnog graces the grocer's shelves. I find myself wishing I could have it all year round, all the while knowing that if I did have it year round, it would take away the specialness of it. I prefer mine rum free and the all time best...
December 18, 2011
I was afraid I was going to miss this one this year. I made the switch to a gluten - free diet a few weeks ago. It was not convenient, but I had been putting if off for a long time, even when my intuition and my gut - literally, was telling me to consider eliminating gluten from my...
December 17, 2011
Carl and have I opted out of buying presents for each other this year. Except for buying presents for Clary, we have avoided the shopping rat race. This is partly due to the fact that we run a company where we have access to unlimited YAY! LiFE! inventory and most of our friends and...
December 16, 2011
YAY! FAMILY! - by Carl
When I think of family, my thoughts more often than not span over several generations to the ancestors that got me here to this moment of pen meeting paper.
I think beyond my parents, three older siblings and the hundreds of cousins, aunts and uncles....
December 15, 2011
This sweet creature is our dog, Yellow Belle.
I have had Belle for about 8 years. She is a rescue and when she came into my life she had been so mistreated she crawled around on her belly. Life had not been kind to this sweet girl.
She is my right hand girl, my...
December 14, 2011
YAY! CATS! by Carl
Sunny! Here kitty, kitty!.........Enter Sunny, our faithful kitty companion. The only cat I've ever shared living quarters with that actually comes when I call for her.
Sunny, aka Sunflower came to us via The Denver Dumb Friends League over twelve...
December 13, 2011
Welcome to the 12 days of Christmas - YAY! LiFE! style or should I say - the 12 YAY!'s of Christmas, plus a few more because twelve just isn't enough. We know that we could use all of our holiday designs and diligently fill in the blanks until Christmas Day, but we wanted to write about...
December 9, 2011
Hi everyone,
I am very grateful to our friend Lynne Kinghorn who has so graciously shared some of her essays with us to post on our blog. Allow me to introduce Lynne.
Lynne's a mixed breed--psychologist-writer or writer-psychologist (depending on her mood and bank account). ...
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