November 11, 2021 Turn Negatives Into Positives I make that a command for myself. When we first ran our information into a loan company portal, I felt it wouldn’t happen. I kept asking for everything I could check myself. We check credit reports constantly, we knew our shortcomings and explained [...]
September 16, 2021 Side Quests Have you ever played those role playing video games (yes, I know they are called RPGs) where you are a character (or in the case of my personal favorite, Star Ocean, the Second Story, you are several characters)? Your job is to get from A [...]
August 17, 2021 Hold Longer A song came on the radio today. It was the first time I heard it. Casting Crowns’ song called “Scars In Heaven” played while I was on the way to after school pickup. The first line says “…if I had known it was the last [...]
Independence Day 2021 July 10, 2021 “Freedom fireworks!” Screams one of the littler girls when she hears me say, “fireworks over the Matanzas starts at 9:30.” The best fireworks show in the world (okay, maybe since St Augustine is my city, I might be a little biased) is our downtown [...]
Resetting my perception focusing on having an attitude of gratitude! [...]
April, 7, 2021 Sweet Bunnies On April 4, 2013, someone left a big retired stud rabbit on our porch with his litter box and food. He became Kimmy’s first all-by-herself pet. Her Mister Walter Rabbit (Louis pronounced it Wabbit) lived on with us for his last very happy bunny years! [...]
March 13, 2021 I’m Fine (don’t go deep) You know, someone says politely, “How are you today?” Preprogrammed for courtesy, we reply automatically, “I’m fine.” But are you really “fine?” Or does that really mean, “I’m hurting, but don’t ask?” In our society, it’s so easy to fall into the [...]
February 22, 2021 Thea and Her Love Thea is by far our youngest lover of all things fashion. Her sisters got her bows for Christmas. She had to put them on everyone. Lucas patiently lets Thea do anything to his hair – he did let Christina and Becky color it [...]
February 3, 2021 Walk and Enjoy Louis likes to do “spur of the moment” fun. We had a lovely Saturday; work, the guys watched a game, we played outside, we had some really good food some of the girls helped Louis with, and we were winding down for the early [...]
January 29, 2021 Evaluations This week and next week are skills testing weeks at gym. Evaluations of skills each gymnast has and their ability to move up or stay in their current level to solidify their knowledge. Most of the time, the coaches catch when their student gymnast gets enough [...]