A Girl and her Doggie February 19, 2020 Sometimes you choose a pet. You know, you excitedly go to the shelter or the pet store and the perfect friend snags your heart instantly. Sometimes you are fostering a litter of puppies and one looks up at you with a connection [...]
February 13, 2020 Temporary Home Sometimes music just hits me. I love to listen to songs of all kinds. One of my newest favorites was from a movie we watched a little bit ago – “Speechless.” Even though as an analyst I understand that wouldn’t have been accurate for the [...]
January 7, 2020 Two Cadet Homecoming! On January 4th, a beautiful day with misty rainshowers threatening the gorgeous parade ground at Camp Blanding, I watched both of my cadets march in their pass and review (ceremony parade at the end of the 2019-2020 winter encampment). I almost cried two years [...]
December 22, 2019 Sister-Cousin Outing You often read that cousins are usually your first friends. They know all about you, love you regardless of your differences, and enjoy life with you from start to finish… I always dreamed of how close my siblings and I would be as adults and [...]
Ever feel overwhelemed by the busyness of life... especially around Christmas? [...]
November 10, 2019 Memes to Voices A friend was showing us her flower arrangements: she said, “expectation versus reality.” To me, both arrangements looked amazing – her husband had given her a few bunches of flowers which she artistically set in two gorgeous table arrangements. She thought one was excellent [...]
October 10, 2019 Big Brother Blessings Sometimes God blesses you with an awesome gift and you totally know it! From the time I was pregnant with Thea, Lucas was totally in love with his little baby. It was “my baby.” Lots of people tried to get him to choose “new [...]
October 3, 2019 Sixteen Sweet Years The one who first called me mother is sixteen years old. Thank you, Jesus. I am so grateful for being blessed with Christina! I can’t imagine life without her. I truly understand that God entrusts us with raising his children. There is such a [...]
September 23, 2019 Questions I love how children ask questions. Sometimes their questions make you go search something. Like “what is a rainbow?” or “why are leaves green?” Sometimes their questions mirror your own; but those you won’t speak. You know, questions that your doubting mind asks but your thinking [...]
September 6, 2019 Overcomer My family went to see the new Kendrick brothers’ movie, “Overcomer” on opening weekend. Oh. My! This film has great acting, believable serious characters, some realistic humor, and glaring, real-life truth. It catches you into the storyline almost instantly. Major disappointment we can all relate to [...]