December 30, 2020 Choosing Gratitude Ever feel just overwhelmingly grateful? That often happens to me as I’m contemplating life. It usually starts when I feel discouraged. Everything bad coming at me all at once or someone mentioning some past mistake that helped lead to some poor circumstance I’m in now [...]
Look out world! Here comes a full confident young woman who continually amazes her family! #ProudParent #WeLoveYou [...]
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 [...]
September 4, 2019 Jaquline the Confident I watched my little girl exude confidence for the first time in public. At our gymnastics show on Mother’s Day, my Jaquline performed her practiced routine with a cloud of confidence I’ve never seen in her before. She LOVES gymnastics. She feels beautiful and [...]
August 30, 2019 Kimberly and her Birthday Twin Louis & I decided to join the church we have been attending. After attending a newcomers class, we brought home our study books and Kimberly looked over it. (Our purpose was to let Christina and Becky look over it. I wasn’t expecting [...]
March 24, 2019 Spring Blessings March 20th was the official first day of spring. I live in Florida, so “Spring” as we see it means beach weather – at least for those of us who don’t consider 70 degrees too cold for sand, surf, and sun. The flower bulbs are [...]
What kind of "deep thoughts" about life and love come from a bitten cookie? [...]
Ever feel like everything in the world is raining down on your shoulders and you can't keep anything up? That was today... [...]
Dress Shopping for my eldest girl's first dance. "I'm Losing My Mind!" [...]
Why is a crazy never-used-makeup 35 year old starting to present it? [...]