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to encourage your heart and
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The Blog
to encourage your heart and
add a lift to your step
Following My Parents’ Example
I love being a mom. Friday night I was the mom of the son singing and dancing on the show choir stage. Saturday I was the mom of the same son on the soccer field. In between the two was a short sleep of five hours. I was so tired. Bless my husband's heart... He...
Five Minute Friday – Writer
Five Minute Friday. Where you write for 5 minutes, without editing, correcting, or updating. No concerns of punctuation, grammar, layout. Just pure writing from the heart. Five minutes. Here goes! This week's word: {WRITER} I remember the day in January 2014 that I...
Goodbye Junk Drawer
For the last three months, I have come to the conclusion that there are things in our home we do not need. It's been freeing to give myself permission to let go of these unnecessary things and to embrace the idea... "If I don't use it or it doesn't bring me joy, I'm...
W2W Woman to Woman – Keep On Keeping On!
I just finished my first load of laundry for the day. Soccer laundry. It's been to overflowing lately, as my son has outside practice each evening. He wears many layers in this 30-40 degree weather. That equals much laundry each night, or in this case, morning....
Season of Wait
I have come to the conclusion I am in a season of wait. Ever been there? WAIT : to remain in a state in which you expect or hope that something will happen soon : to not do something until something else happens All my life I've seemed to have direction. I felt...
One-Fourth is Behind Us
Does life move by as quickly for you as it does for me? --When we close out today, one-fourth of 2014 will be behind us.-- WHAT??? Why does it seem like 2014 just began? I wrote a post on the the eve of 2014, as "a blank 365-page book" was ahead of each of us. What...
