This summer my sweet 10 year old Grace decided she wanted to start a garden. Being the homeschooling Mom that I am…I said, ”Great! This can be your summer science project.” (my motto – everything in life is school!) With that she began to research what might grow best in our backyard, purchased all the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Life Lessons’
September 13, 2009
What I am….and what I am not
I so wish that I could have been in Washington DC for the 9/12 March yesterday. In fact just last Sunday I was looking at airline tickets and trying to figure out a way to come up with the money to fly out there. In case you are unaware of what the 9/12 March was…let [...]
September 11, 2009
We will never forget
September 11, 2001
I was actually in the Washington DC area on a business trip on that fateful day in American history, along with my then seven year old daughter, Kristen. (she is now 15!) We were getting ready to fly home on that very same morning those planes were flown into the twin towers.
Here is an [...]
September 1, 2009
Celebration, Reflection & Contemplation
47 years ago today….I was born.
My Celebration
Today I will celebrate my life! My God given life - my abundantly blessed life – my 47 years on this earth – my health – my family & friends – my faith – my future!
I will celebrate with those I love and I will enjoy all the delights of the [...]
August 27, 2009
Life Lessons Behind the Lawn Mower
This week, in the midst of getting prepped & ready for another year of homeschooling my K-8 crew, I realized that the back yard needed a bit of attention. Ok, so maybe it needed a lot of attention. The grass had grown to a point that it was two feet high in some areas and [...]
August 25, 2009
Where there is a will…there is a way!
I grew up in a family who ate dinner together….
at the table…
with the TV turned OFF…
every night…
at 6pm.
My Mom and Dad raised four children who were active, healthy, drug, alcohol & tobacco free, high academic achievers, student leaders with solid moral standards and a strong Christian faith. Now while I don’t think that eating dinner together regularly [...]
August 22, 2009
Cherish the time
I received much feedback from my previous post – Living life at both ends of the spectrum – it is always good to be reminded of the importance of our loved ones and in the midst of our busyness in life hopefully those reminders cause us to stop, reevaluate and take the time to love, cherish [...]
August 18, 2009
Living life at both ends of the spectrum
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 [...]
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 [...]
April 15, 2009
So what if you don’t have the time….just do it!
To say that I don’t have time right now is like saying that Bill Gates just has a little extra “walking around money”. Yes that would be an understatement.
Besides the regular routine of mothering, homeschooling, household management, my home based business and my “part time” job (yada yada)… I am working ’round the clock on the [...]
February 8, 2009
Deep breathing
I finally figured it out!
Yes, after twenty years of motherhood it has finally hit me what the real purpose of the Lamaze classes were, that I took prior to the birth of my first child. Just in case you have not yet experienced labor & delivery and you think that the purpose of these classes is to help [...]
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 26, 2009
Inaugurations Happen….Every Four Years
Four years…will fly by!
How do I know? Well after dragging my kids out of bed last Tuesday to watch the historic inauguration of our first black president (which we would have watched the inauguration events no matter who was being sworn in – to me it is patriotic!), I began to reminisce on past inaugurations.
Just [...]
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 [...]
