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 [...]
Tag: nostalgia
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 [...]
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 [...]
Thursday Doors -Everglades City, FL
This week for Thursday Doors, I dug back through some old photos. I'm heading out for vacation tomorrow morning before the sun comes up. I'm supposed to be packing, but was looking in photo albums instead. I really wish I wasn't in the photo so there wasn't proof of how I dressed in the 90's. [...]
Purely Captivating
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be grounded. Be crumbled so wildflowers will come up where you are. -Rumi The weekly photo challenge this week is "Pure". The photo could convey wholesomeness, something undiluted, or simplicity. Since contentment and simplicity are two of my top endeavors this year, I knew that I'd be able to [...]
Signs of Summertime
Summertime is basically upon us. My boys are finished with school, having high enough grades and low enough absences to be exempt from finals. My daughter is on the countdown with half days to finish out the middle school year (exemptions are only for high school credit classes). We are starting to make our summer [...]
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 [...]
Jubilant Smiles
Jubilant: adj. showing great joy, satisfaction, or triumph; rejoicing; exultant What better place to see jubilation than at a wedding. Since my Wordless Wednesday this week was about Lupus Awareness, I thought it only fitting that the weekly photo challenge considering jubilant would include a joyous moment with the one who suffers from Lupus. When [...]
A Mother’s Love
The sun shone brightly On our stroll along the well loved shore We laughed even though there were tears in our hearts My return home, to celebrate her- a life well lived Our rock and wisdom called to her eternal home Days spent recounting memories The dolphin's hello And the ashes flowing A welcoming embrace. [...]