Nicole Archive

Winter

Mother Nature is a fickle and forgetful bitch. An author, Sabrina Jeffries, from North Carolina wrote that and when I heard it on NPR recently I nearly spit my cranberry acai juice across the table. Ms. Jeffries was on to something. Winter, it seems ...Read More

Life Is Good

Even though today is Sunday and I’ve been quiet for an entire week I felt a compulsion to share a video with all of you. Mr. MVP forwarded this video to me, which he only does if something is really excellent. It is really ...Read More

See You Next Week

This week my blog will be taking a rest. I will be braving the snowy roads on Care A Van multiple times in the next five days and to top it all off, I will be doing our taxes. This could be a fascinating ...Read More

Paper Hearts

#Paper #snowflake #Professional. #ballerina A photo posted by Nicole (@nvanputt) on Dec 17, 2013 at 8:12am PST Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and our big picture window has been dressed up for winter since the beginning of December, so I decided to ...Read More

Hard Baked

Boiling eggs was always a humongous mystery for me. My Mom can boil eggs without referring to Google, which as I write it sounds silly, but the perfectly timed egg, is not an easy accomplishment. At the age of 33 I finally found a ...Read More