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add a lift to your step
When Life Gets Too Serious
Deadlines to meet. Decisions to make. Duties to do. Schedules to keep track of. Commitments to keep. Bills to pay. Carpools. Laundry. Emails. Homework. It's no wonder how life can get too serious. And if we're not careful, so can we. It's been weeks of working late,...
Five Weeks!!!
Making a list and checking it twice doesn't just happen at Christmastime. Ask any mom of a soon-to-be high school graduate, and she'll tell you she's doing just that. And much, much more. Five weeks from today our youngest will walk across that commencement stage and...
Five Minute Friday – Tomorrow
It's Five Minute Friday (eve), and I missed the party (#fmfparty) on Twitter tonight, but I looked forward all day to writing tonight with my #fmfparty friends. It's like a flash mob of sorts, where a bunch of us free-write for five minutes on a one word prompt and we...
Embrace Who You Are
Preparing for our son's graduation from high school next month, I lost myself in a pile of photographs over the weekend. You probably know the kind. Those of the chubby baby years, the adorable toddler years, and yes, even the long-haired early-teen years. (The last...
Be That Friend
She's a woman who's blessed. She's one who can look back and see those who've impacted her life. She looks to her right and to her left, and she's grateful for those who are journeying beside her. She's confident the future will be okay. They'll be with her. She's a...
Five Minute Friday – Relief
Fridays roll around quickly, don't they? Tonight I again join the Five Minute Friday #fmfparty group of writing for five minutes on a one-word prompt. Truly, I enjoy Thursday nights with this group of amazing people. Even on my phone, on they way home from a chilly...