family time – sharing the stairs

What If…We Choose Not to Be Bored

11 Jul 202011 Jul 2020

When we were in the lockdown phase of this 😷pandemic, I was thanking my lucky ✨stars that I didn't have small children at home anymore. Don't get me wrong. I…

What If…We Spend This Time Thinking

17 Apr 202025 Apr 2020

What if we keep doing our 🌟best? I posed that question last Sunday. What does that mean to you? What is our 🌟best? Your 🌟best? My 🌟best? I felt that…

What If…We Just Keep Doing Our Best

17 Apr 202019 Apr 2020

I don't really have some big picture post this week with connections to life and 💪health and 😍happiness. Honestly, I'm doing the same thing you're doing- just getting through this…

My Teenager’s Pandemic Diary- Vol. 4

14 Apr 202021 Apr 2020

This is the fourth diary entry written by my teenage daughter. For a virtual history class assignment, students are asked to write about the experience of living through a pandemic.…

What If…We Don’t Try to Steer

2 Apr 20205 Apr 2020

You might think I'm one of those people who rolls with the punches. There are times that is true, for sure. Not always, though. The big 😀smile hides my tendency…

What If…Peace is Still Here

25 Mar 20205 Apr 2020

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." ~Deepak Chopra The days are starting to run together.😬 I have to pause and think about what day…

What If…We Work Together?

20 Mar 20206 Jun 2020

These last few days have been a 🎢rollercoaster ride. I don't need to tell you that. The scariest thing is that we can't get off. It's like we had a…

Downsizing- Part 2

If you ever decide to move over the holiday season, bless you! If you ever decide to move from a house where you lived for 17 years at the same…

Downsizing

30 Dec 201911 Jan 2020

In our blended family, we have the his, hers, and ours group of kids. I say kids, but I really mean one teenager and four young adults in their twenties.…

Self-Care Sunday: Spend Time with People You Love

28 Dec 201929 Dec 2019

Ever since our oldest daughter did an internship after college graduation at Disney World in ☀️Orlando, we have been spending Christmas in the Most Magical Place on 🌎Earth. That first…

Self-Care Sunday: Celebrate Love

12 Oct 201913 Oct 2019

I'm sitting here in a freezing cold venue waiting for photos to begin. Our son is marrying 💍his bride in just a couple of hours. He's my oldest stepson. I…

JoBros- Round 2

I mentioned that I first saw the Jonas Brothers in 2008 when we were all a little younger. My concert buddies for that one were a teenager, a pre-teen, and…

Celebrating 45 Years in Broadcasting

When I was a kid, it was tough to learn that some kids only wanted to come to my house because of my mom. You see, my mom was a…

Self-Care Sunday: Community

15 Sep 201915 Sep 2019

I know that self-care kind of sounds like things you do BY yourself. But- it is really things you do FOR yourself. Being a part of a community is a…

Self-Care Sunday

I love the idea of slowing down to focus on myself. I'm trying-honestly, I'm trying. It's just that life moves so fast, and I'm involved in so many moving pieces.…

Empty Nest Test Drive

I'm sitting alone on a hotel bed as the rain pours down on the city below while our youngest daughter is at a concert. She was invited to go to…

The Donut Hole

We recently spent some time in Florida to visit our oldest daughter who lives in Orlando. We took the road trip along the coast of the Atlantic on the way…

Five States in 18 Hours

2 Jul 20193 Jul 2019

I decided to snap some pics as we drove all the way from our garage to the beaches of Daytona in one long haul with just a few short stops…

Road Trip Prep

1 Jul 20192 Jul 2019

We might be a little weird, but my family loves a good road trip. We even love packing for a road trip. The anticipation of the unknown builds with every…

RECIPE- Sweet Cream Cheese Cups

We had a few of our big kids over for dinner last night. It was actually more of a belated Christmas celebration because it was the first time that this…