This weekend I had the blessing of helping out with a youth fine arts competition. The room I worked in featured musicians and dancers who amazed me with their abilities. Some of the youths were better than many of the adults I know! Something happened I didn’t expect on Saturday. I saw the kids performing [...]
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You CAN Learn to Love Your In-Laws
In-laws is one of those words that evokes deep feelings. If you want a better relationship with yours, meet this amazing duo. In-laws. The term evokes every emotion under the sun. Some of us just try to get along with our loved one’s closest relatives. Others move away from them, far, far away. Is Tahiti [...]
ReMarriage Primer: Lesson One
The world of remarriage is very much is like entering an alternate world that most of us have no preparation for succeeding in…..if you enter a remarriage with children, about the time you say finish saying “I do” you may feel as though you’ve found and entered Alice in Wonderland’s Rabbit Hole and wish you’d [...]
The Best Made Plans….
After our move, inactivity (and reproducing laundry piles) just about kept me depressed from Dec to April. I am an active girl, I usually have my activity brushes in about 12 pots of color at a time: homeschooling, church, praise team, studies, volunteering with children, working with young teens and adults….well you get the picture. [...]
A Luncheon for Three
Why is it I don’t do luncheons more often? (it could be my fear of the health department closing down my teenager used kitchen) You know you convince yourself a hundred different ways to Friday why you shouldn’t…..or can’t….or how much trouble it would be……you’re just sure you’re not going to get it done but [...]
Unexpected Gifts
Hydrangeas remind me of my wedding day, and many childhood days where they were brought in for the table at my Grandmother Geddie’s home. Large blue hydrangeas surrounded her Dossie Mae, the weekend summer cottage and pink ones were in her back yard on Clifton Street. They were always full and happy plants and ripe [...]
And the Coach said…
Last night our first baseball game didn’t go so well. The boys didn’t have the experience to know what to do in tight situations….the bases were loaded, it looked to be going well, then through several poor choices in a row we were out in one triple play. The evening was filled with such things, [...]
Old verses, new meanings….
Philippians 4:6-8 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, [...]
