SIX WEEKS TO GO UNTIL CHRISTMAS!! Every year, after both our Thanksgiving menu, and shopping list are completed, we take a morning to purchase the groceries. One local grocer traditionally has turkey priced as low as 59 cents a pound,
WEEK FOUR – TO AN ORGANIZED CHRISTMAS I made a trip into Walmart, a couple of days ago, and immediately noticed that the “seasonal” shelves, at the front of the store (filled with costumes and bagged candy a week before)
I love, love, love, love, love CHRISTMAS! Almost everyone around me knows it, and at opportune moments throughout the year, they are joyfully reminded, by me, of the number of days remaining until that blessed date. Listening to Christmas music
This post contains affiliate links. See our full disclosure. We live in South Central Washington and were pretty excited about eclipse day, August 21, 2017, when the sun would disappear behind the moon for a brief couple of minutes across
This post contains affiliate links. See our full disclosure. It was just ten years ago on a hot evening, in late July, that our son’s dog Daisy – a beautiful golden lab mix – gave birth to a litter of twelve
“I am a disorganized ‘messy!’” There! I said it. BUT deep inside I am also a perfectionist. My sister and I shared a room when I was about ten and she was thirteen. I made it such a mess, and
Almost everyone has images in their mind of the perfectly organized relaxed Christmas. It may be images from childhood, ones we’ve seen in the movies, or those we’ve pinned to pages and pages of Pinterest. It’s pretty normal to dream
I’m not going to lie! This current Presidential Election has been one of the toughest and most hateful elections I can recall. The last one I remember being this rough was when Kennedy ran against Nixon in 1964. I was
Baby number three was due any day, but this time it was uniquely different. Her first two children, a girl and a boy, had been born safe and healthy. But the days were dangerous now. She seriously feared for this
“You think like an African!” He didn’t mean it as any kind of put down, just the truth, since I was born in and spent most of my first fifteen years in West Africa, we often have a huge