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add a lift to your step
The Grass is Greener Elsewhere??
"I would love to stay home and take care of my family. Delicious dinners, full of love and devotion--perfectly arranged on plates--would be common in our home. Our son would wake to the mouth-watering aroma of warm-out-of-the-oven chocolate chips muffins. His...
W2W – Letting Go & Letting God
The words cut to my core. Sharp like a knife, they sliced through my ears and pierced my heart. James was spot-on when he wrote the tongue being "a restless evil, full of deadly poison." The one who voiced those slicing words has no idea how still today, years later,...
Why Do We Keep the Stuff We Don’t Use???
How about this for a sight? No, I don't have young children playing in my cupboards any more, and no we haven't had any sort of disaster in our kitchen. I AM DECLUTTERING! For the last few weeks, I have been on a mission to completely declutter our home. Pulling...
The Day the Grass Turned Green
I woke up to the sound of rain. It rained at breakfast. It rained at lunch. It rained at dinner. It was still raining at bedtime. It rained the entire day yesterday. And I enjoyed it. The rest was wonderful. Cozying up in a blanket. Baking a couple loaves of banana...
Being There For a Friend
We stood at the end of the "human tunnel" to congratulate our winning soccer team. One by one, each player quickly passed by. I anticipated seeing that face I love come next. But, the line ended. The players rushed off to the locker room. All... but my son. "Where is...
Five Minute Friday – Paint
Five Minute Friday. Three hundred-plus writers embrace five minutes of straight writing with one prompt each Friday. Unconcerned about punctuation, spelling, grammar. Just pure, real, straight-from-the-heart writing. Here goes! Prompt: --PAINT-- Our home is set on a...
