Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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.…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized Downsizing- Part 2 10 Jan 2020 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…
Uncategorized 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.…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized JoBros- Round 2 30 Sep 2019 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…
Uncategorized Celebrating 45 Years in Broadcasting 27 Sep 2019 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized Self-Care Sunday 25 Aug 2019 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.…
Uncategorized Empty Nest Test Drive 21 Jul 2019 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…
Uncategorized The Donut Hole 12 Jul 2019 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized 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…
Uncategorized RECIPE- Sweet Cream Cheese Cups 4 Jan 2019 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…