by Mary Carver | Jan 10, 2014 | Books, Movies & TV
Welcome, Modern Mrs. Darcy readers! I’m so glad you came to visit. If you stood at my actual front door, I’d invite you in (it’s cold out there!) – but I’d also cringe as you caught sight of my So Very Dirty floors. I’d say...
by Mary Carver | Jan 4, 2014 | Books, Movies & TV, My Life, What I'm Into
Happy 2014, everyone! I hope your holidays were refreshing and restful, full of joy and celebration! Mine were pretty good, though full of pneumonia, family functions that happened in two different states at the exact same time, and lots of [semi-stressful] nesting....
by Mary Carver | Dec 28, 2013 | Books, Movies & TV, My Life, What I'm Into
A few days ago I wrote about those year-end lists that show up on pretty much every website during the last month of every year. And I confessed that I didn’t write a best-of list last year, because 2012 didn’t have anything best about it. This year,...
by Mary Carver | Dec 9, 2013 | Books, Movies & TV, Faith Life
Sometimes when I ask God for help, He doesn’t cooperate. I don’t mean that He doesn’t answer. I don’t mean that He isn’t with me always, protecting me and loving me in ways I could never begin to understand. I don’t mean that He...
by Mary Carver | Nov 30, 2013 | Books, Movies & TV, My Life, What I'm Into
These are a few outtakes from our family photo session in our backyard. With a tripod and a timer. Yep. We’ll be putting selfies on our Christmas card this year. After a month of daily posts, I wasn’t up for a What I’m Into post at the end of October...
by Mary Carver | Nov 29, 2013 | Books, Movies & TV
A year ago this week we finally bought a flat-screen TV. With our one Black Friday purchase came the need for a new entertainment center and cable package. My parents had given us a gift card for the entertainment center, so we were covered there (although, based on...