Is That Snow? If you read yesterday's Blogiversary post, then you know that we got our first snow here in Southwest Virginia! It was beautiful. Now I'm ready for it to leave. When you are born and raised in South Florida, where 70 degrees constitutes wearing a hoodie, it takes a while to get accustomed [...]
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Turning my eyes to the hills
Turning my eyes to the hills. It's confession time! I've been in and out of the blogosphere and in and out of social media. I'm trying to keep up because I genuinely care what everyone has to say and share. My mind has been overwhelmed with processing stuff going on in my life. I [...]
The Second Blessing
The Second Blessing. Making the decision to have a child-it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. - Elizabeth Stone This morning I saw this quote posted on a friends' Facebook page. I felt its truth in a hundred different ways. Today it struck me [...]
Thursday Doors-Roanoke Times
Roanoke Times. It's already Thursday!! Me (one minute): doing a happy dance because I leave for vacation at the beach on Saturday. Me (the next minute): oh wait (stopping mid-dance)! I have a lot to do before I can leave! Thursday Doors is hosted by Norm 2.0, you can head over and check out some [...]
This is Home
Bloom where you are planted. This is the thought that has been weaving its way in and out of my mind for the past week. Summertime makes me restless. People are in and out town. I am in and out of town. Routines are thrown out the window. It makes me miss home. And then [...]
Treasures in a thrift store
Today I found an old typewriter at a thrift store. Let me back up. My DAUGHTER found an old typewriter at a thrift store today. I have been wanting to find a manual typewriter for some time. Not specifically hunting one down, but prepared to pick one up if I stumble upon one. Today, we [...]
Old Town-Kissimmee, Florida
It wasn't the first time, and it wouldn't be the last. This was one of my many, many thoughts when the road trip to Florida took many hours longer than I originally planned. But I made it there and now I've made it back home. Vacation! Ah....bliss! The first few days after returning home....not so [...]
What’s in a number?
Numbers are used in so many areas of our everyday lives. We use them to name streets and to give an identity to the location of a home or building. We use them to convey the worth of something by placing them in an order to identify how much something cost. Our age, years, days, [...]
Change is always happening
I've had some thoughts rolling around for awhile, and yet when I put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard), they do not flow out cohesively. I am hoping that today they have found a way to flow with the ease of a river racing to its conclusion. The oldest became an official solo driver [...]
On Titles and Timing
A Mom seeking her Path in the midst of Chaos and Beauty - Amy Lyon Smith How appropriate that this should be the post I had planned to write last week and today the daily prompt would be chaos. The original catalyst for the following thoughts is the Weekly Discover Challenge. The theme this past [...]