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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It’s currently 12:32 a.m. By all accounts, I should be in bed. I have 5 teens/preteens to get up and out the door in roughly 5 hours. Why, then, am I writing a blog post? Well, when the spirit strikes you listen…that’s what writers do. I’ll make this one short…
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Hey, everyone! Just wanted to check in with my final results from my AdvoCare 24 Day Challenge for those of you who were interested in seeing how things went. I have to say, I am super pleased with my results but more than that, I am encouraged by the fact…
Read moreFinally…I have time to sit down and get this post written! I am so excited to share my results with you, so let’s get this party started shall we? First off, I’d like to say that most people who do a 24 Day Challenges prefer not to check their results until…
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A few weeks ago, I got completely fed up with everything. I had had enough of all of the things in my life that were frustrating me. I told myself that life was just too hard right now. I told myself that I couldn’t do anymore. I told myself that…
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I am taking some time this morning to follow the advice of one of my most treasured friends, Richa Badami. Richa has a theory, I guess you’d call it, that she calls Pausing for Power. Pausing for Power means taking time to reflect, to breathe, to slow everything down and…
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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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As a writer, I read a lot of various pieces written by people from all over the world. I recently read a piece entitled “9 Reasons Why I Regret Being a Stay-at-Home Mom” by Lisa Endlich Heffernan. While I can certainly appreciate the value in our freedom of speech…
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Last Saturday my son Jonathan and his football team played their first play-off game. These boys are all 6th graders and have worked incredibly hard to get to this point in the season. What is unique about this team, and why I chose to write about them this morning,…
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The Road Not Taken by: Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, just as…
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