As I type this I am watching a pretty wild and rambunctious pillow fight taking place on my bed. The toddler and the six year old are going at it with gusto, as I protect the baby girl from their flailing arms. The computer is bouncing up and down, I just got a foot in my [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Attitude’
August 13, 2009
Dedications, Commitments & Forever Church Families
This past Sunday was a very special day.
We dedicated our dear Christiana to the Lord during the Sunday morning service at our church. As our entire family stood along with our pastor and his wife before our church family and dedicated this newest blessing back to the God who gave her to us I was [...]
August 3, 2009
My “dream” bathroom
Just home from our annual camping trip in Lake Tahoe and thought the timing was perfect to publish a previously written post as it applies as much today as it did two years ago when I wrote it.
It’s all a matter of perspective.
You see, the “master” bathroom in our 50+ year old home is not [...]
February 2, 2009
No regrets….really??
Lately I have been coming in contact with more and more people who seem to have a common philosophy on life - the general theme is that they have “no regrets” in life about anything. It often seems to come across with a bit of pomp and arrogance that says even though they have not lived a “perfect” life or [...]
January 16, 2009
The day after
It’s the day after.
Today could have been so very different for us all. Instead of waking up this morning with the good news warming our hearts of the “Miracle on the Hudson” – the incredible crash landing of a US Air commercial plane into the Hudson River in New York – in which everyone survived, we could [...]
January 11, 2009
My foggy day
Sometimes the weather just fits the day.
Living in the valley, we get a few too many winter mornings like these where we are “socked in” with pea soup fog. On a rare day, I do enjoy the white blanket that covers the entire area but the majority of the winter I look for ways to find the sun by heading [...]
January 5, 2009
The Irony of Life
It’s the first Monday of January and from what I can surmise from the facebook statuses I have been looking over – many mothers are rejoicing that their children are back in school today after a two week break for the Christmas holiday. The comments are filled with smiley faces and interjections like – yay! yippee! [...]
October 27, 2008
What was I thinking?
My second daughter – Amy Girl – is turning sweet sixteen today. I remember the day of her birth vividly. In fact, of all my seven deliveries (2 c-sections & 5 vbacs)….Amy’s was one of the easiest.
But as I remember the events surrounding her birth I have to laugh at myself. I have certainly mellowed out a [...]
October 24, 2008
How to survive an economic crisis – part 2
Ok….so I have to do a follow up to my blog earlier this week – with several suggestions on ways to cut back to survive the looming economic crisis. (which by the way if you haven’t been following the comments – there are some great additional suggestions posted – read them here)
While all these cost cutting [...]
October 21, 2008
How to survive an economic crisis
Finally something in the news that I have expertise in.
I am an expert on the subject of economic crisis….no really, I am! I mean after all I have lived most of my adult life (except for a few short “glory years” of phenomenal success with my home based business) in a state of economic crisis. [...]
October 15, 2008
Making Yourself Miserable
One of the daily devotionals that I read is from Elisabeth Elliot – it is always refreshing, often challenging and very inspiring. This mornings entry was simple, yet profound and true. Are you making yourself miserable today?
Several Ways to Make Yourself Miserable
Count your troubles, name them one by one–at the breakfast table, if anybody will [...]
October 13, 2008
The tale of two “practically perfect” days
This is a tale of two practically perfect days.
A week ago last Friday was our traditional family fall outing to Apple Hill and when I came home that evening I posted my status on my face book account that it was the end of a “practically perfect” day!
We got up early on the first cool [...]
October 13, 2008
Just another Monday morning
Just another Monday morning…..
….coffee brewing, exercises looming, chores to be completed, phones ringing, bags to be unpacked from the weekend scrapbooking event, a very full weekly calendar staring at me, hundreds of emails to answer, the girls whizzing about the house getting breakfast, doing school work, fussing with each other and wanting me to referee and of course [...]
October 6, 2008
Perfect Peace
”You (God) will keep in perfect peace
him whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
Trust in the LORD forever, for God, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.”
Isaiah 26:3-4
This is a passage from the daily scripture reading I have sent to my email inbox and this morning it could not be any more appropriate and applicable to [...]
August 26, 2008
It is bittersweet
Tonight I stood in the hallway of my daughters apartment building in New York and said goodbye. Tomorrow morning I will get on an airplane and fly 3000 miles back to our home in California. It is bittersweet. For those of you who may be sending a child off to college this fall (or perhaps off to the military, a missions [...]
