I hope you enjoyed my video introduction. I’m trying something new with my blog posts in the hopes of giving them a bit more personality by adding a video intro to each of them. Please let me know what you think. Do you prefer the video intro or would you…
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Growing up in a large family, our house was pretty much chaos 24/7. I think my mom liked it that way. If the house was too quiet she seemed uncomfortable. She slept with the television on just for background noise…come to think of it, the television was ALWAYS on, not…
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Remember the last couple of weeks before New Years when everyone was chatting it up about all of the great things they were going to accomplish in the new year? Remember that? Yeah, me too. I was one of those people with a list of resolutions this and goals that…what the…
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I honestly don’t even know how or where to start this post. And for a writer, it is a rarity that I ever run out of things to say. Something has been weighing heavily on my heart, not just recently, but for the past 9 years actually. I’ve held it…
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I am a writer, so journaling has always come naturally for me. I have journaled since the 7th grade. I remember that being a particularly difficult year for me. It was difficult academically, it was a difficult “friend drama” year, it was difficult in sports…that year was basically one of…
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Yep, I caught myself doing it again…being a big, fat negative loser this morning. Let me bring you up to speed… So my 9 year old tells me at 6:10 this morning that, “Oh yeah Mom, our field trip got rescheduled for TODAY! I’m so excited…and we have to be…
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There was a time when Valentine’s Day was a day we celebrated the beautiful story of St. Valentine. During the third century in Rome, Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and children, so he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, a priest…
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Today I feel small. Not in the sense that I lost 50 pounds over night kind of small…small in relation to everyone and everything else around me. Insignificant may be a better word. Each day I take my kids to school and it’s like Groundhog Day. I mean seriously,…
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Well, the latest of our many military moves is nearly over and I have to say, this one was a doozy. Plans changed about 52 times before we finally were able to make a definite plan of action and go with it. As the saying goes “When Plan A…
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Okay, so maybe it’s not on your calendar or Fox News or anything huge like that, but today I am deeming (in my own right) Offical Count Your Blessings Day! That’s right peeps…for the next 24 hours (give or take depending on when you’re reading this) I would love nothing…
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