It’s Christmas Eve. The gifts are wrapped, the baking is done and the stockings are stuffed. I’m feeling pretty good about just sitting back and relaxing for the next few days. This has been a crazy couple of months. October through December are always full with scheduled events and added work but this years little … Continue reading
In Our Race, We Don’t Run Alone
Dear friends, Last month was our daughter’s birthday. Birthdays are a big deal in our family. The big day begins with breakfast in bed, enjoying your favorite donut, bagel or muffin topped with a candle and birthday wishes sung off key. Lunch is at a place of your choosing and then dinner is your favorite … Continue reading
Fight for Joy
Dear Friends, Have you ever felt negativity pounding at your thoughts and your head hurting from the bombardment? I have. Every direction I turned a thought, word spoken or attitude seemed to come at me until I felt buried under the bricks of negativity. I felt beaten down and exhausted. The ugliness of negativity kept … Continue reading
He Loves Me As He Finds Me
Dear Friend, I’m reading this book, The Broken Way by Ann Voskamp and its breaking me up and how I’m seeing my life. This love word for the year is doing the same thing. I’m always amazed at how God uses everyday things to teach us about life if we slow ourselves down enough to … Continue reading
What I did 25 years ago today!
Today is the day! It feels like we have been celebrating all summer long and now this day is finally here! Twenty-five years ago today, I said, I will. I will love you for better and for worse I will care for you in sickness and in health I will stay with you when we are … Continue reading
Making Memories From Mishaps
Last week, I didn’t write here because I was there. It’s like the Dr. Seuss line: “From there to here, from here to there funny things are everywhere.” Dave and I got away from here…work, kids, house, and every day life… to there… cottage, beach, relaxation and time together. And all along the way there … Continue reading
When We Try Something New and Fail
We finally planted our garden. It’s been rainy, wet and my schedule has been swamped with events but we finally got it in. It’s a relief and my place of retreat. I fence myself in, plant myself on the edge of the raised beds and dig in. Dave came over while I was planting the … Continue reading
