Mom is 60!

Today is my Mother’s Birthday! She has been roaming the earth for 60 years now. Luckily, I’ve been around for 38 years of that. Lucky for her or for me? Not really sure. My Mom has always been a constant support for me. I always knew I could talk to her about anything and everything.

Month of Thanks Day 7..A Gift

Day 7…a gift I am thankful for! Honestly, above anything and everything in this entire world that I am thankful for is the gift of raising my children God chose me to be their Mama. I was gifted the opportunity to carry 3 babies. To enjoy, endure and experience that process. The good, the bad

Thankful Day 4&5

I thought and thought and thought about what the taste or food I am thankful for is.  It was extremely hard to come up with just 1.  Day 4.  I am thankful for Homemade Chicken and Dumplings.  This is not my favorite food by any means.  Though while I was making it for my family

Family Divorce #thisis38

Yesterday my sister’s divorce was finalized.  Although, we had known it was in the works since January, I still had a really hard time.  Last week she let me know that it would in fact be final yesterday and that still didn’t really hit me. As soon as the text came through that it was

Lucky In Love #Thisis38

” I’m lucky I’m in love with my best friend Lucky to have been where I have been”   Thank you Jason Mraz As I was giving my husband a kiss goodbye this morning, all I could think of was I am so lucky. Here are just a few of the reasons! He supports me!  I

Finding the Plot again…

I am one of the most high strung people you will probably ever meet.  Anything that I do, I do it the very best way that I know how.  I don’t sit down until all of my responsibilities are checked off the list and even then, I will probably add a few more just to

My Ten Minutes: The Guilt

Yesterday I walked through the day, just putting one foot in front of the other. I had this pit in my stomach that hasn’t gone away, I ate about 2 bites of food and just drifted through the day.  The only other time I remember feeling like this was when I was going through my

Cultivate

I picked a word for the year!  My first time doing this, but I needed some inspiration and I’m super excited. I did a lot of praying about what my word should be.  What did I want to accomplish this year?  What was going to be my purpose and what would I focus on? What

6am and I’ve been awake for 5 Hours!

Confession…Paul and I went to bed at 8pm last night!  LOL, sometimes we are exhausted at the end of our work week!  The kids were all set, we let them stay up and watch TV, trusted them to get themselves to sleep. So….that resulted in me waking up at 1am.  I tossed and turned for

Thankful Thursday 3/16

I am going to focus on one thing for Thankful Thursday and that is my dinner last night. Last night my son James had a fundraiser for his class camping trip.  The fundraiser was at a restaurant and the restaurant was going to be donating a portion of the bill to the school. Well, the