One thing I love about our house is the shelves Steve built into our laundry room shortly after we moved in. But the only problem with extra shelves and extra space? They tend to get a little overstuffed, a little overwhelmed, a LOT disorganized.…

Oh my. I can’t tell you what it did to my heart to see Jodi make the suggestion that Smithellaneous readers might want to help out Julia and her son.  And then to see another half a dozen of you join in with her and say that you were also on board with it?  Well, Steve, Sarah and I are all incredibly touched by your…

Comments and Kristina Creek Last week as I was glancing through some old posts, I came across this one called, “Introduce Yourself.” This post stood out to me especially because it holds the all time record for the most comments ever collected on a single post–164!  …

You know, it recently occurred to me that all of you wonderful Smthellaneous friends probably have no earthly idea what I do on my job.  (My non-blogging job, that is.) So just for the fun of it, I leafed through a couple of weeks in my Day Timer at work and picked out some activities to list here from that period of time.…