Oh what a beautiful girl!
I can’t believe that it has been seven weeks since I have posted anything on my blog! It certainly hasn’t been –
for lack of anything to say (this girl ALWAYS has something to say)
and it hasn’t been because I am sitting around eating bon-bons (although I have been eating a bit too much [...]
Gloria Virginia Winslow Borden is a lovely Christian lady with a strong, independent, adventuresome spirit whose positive outlook, faithful heart, solid commitment, strength and encouragement have had an awesome impact on my entire life. She is my mother!
My mother gave me life, love, physical, emotional and spiritual nourishment, a solid family and a warm & [...]
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 [...]
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! [...]
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
The Preamble to The [...]
Happy 16th Birthday my dear Amy Girl!
You’re all ribbons and curls,
Oh, what a girl!
Eyes that twinkle and shine,
You’re sixteen,
You’re beautiful and you’re mine.
How quickly those 16 birthdays come and go –
1st birthday – pretty & pink baby girl
2nd Birthday at the Pumpkin Patch
3rd Birthday – you began your love of horses!
4th Birthday – at Chuck [...]
”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 [...]
How many nights last week did your family sit down at the table and eat dinner together?
Ok, so we have all heard or read the studies - children who sit down and have dinner with their families, at least 5 times a week, are significantly less likely to get involved in drugs, drinking alcohol and smoking. Studies have [...]
I can’t stand that headline!
After posting some photos on my facebook account of my baby boy – I realized how much he really did need a haircut. With his bangs hanging down into his eyes (do you call them bangs on boys?) , his hair flowing down well over his ears and the wisps of [...]
We had a “milestone” birthday in our home this past week as my fourth daughter, Rebekah turned thirteen.
It is official! We now have four teenage girls in our family…at the same time.
When Rebekah was born her three older sisters were 18 months(Kristen), 3 years(Amy) and 6 years old (Michelle).
I remember many times during their childhood well meaning friends, acquaintances and [...]
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 [...]
I’ve never been one to live vicariously through my kids. In fact, I have often felt pity on parents who were so over involved in their children’s athletic endeavours, academic achievements, musical or dramatic talents and even their “love lives” - it was as if they were trying to either re-create their own childhood or live a [...]
I am smitten!
The first time I laid eyes on this sweet baby boy, I was filled with love and joy. Then tonight I got to hold him for just a few precious minutes and he stole my heart! This dear baby was born five weeks early to my lifelong friends - Robert & Nina Ward. He has [...]
Today my third daughter, Kristen will begin her freshman year at Jim Elliot Christian High School. I have to tell you my heart is breaking a little. I know all to well that this day is like the bang of the starting gun that marks the final race of her time home with us. The next four years will go [...]
The last two weeks my typically “full speed ahead” life virtually came to a stop (or at least a slow crawl). After first dealing with a bad case of strep throat that knocked me out for several days, I then did something to my lower back (I say “something” because I can’t pin point the [...]
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