I heard Clara come home from school the other day and I could hear she had friends with her. I went downstairs to greet them and there were no less than six fourteen-year-old girls sitting on my couch and at the bar enjoying afternoon snacks and chatting with each other. They could see my surprise…
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Not So Fun Fact Time
Where A Highly Unlikely Life Began I would say “fun fact” time…but I don’t know how fun it is. Sad fact…probably. Sick and twisted fact..for sure. Not so much fun though. Let’s just stick with STORYTIME! I’m sure if you walked down the street and asked random strangers if their life turned out the way…
Surviving, Thriving, and Celebrating Life
“I knew she had been stressed out, but she had hidden the severity of what she was dealing with and I had no idea she was in trouble. She didn’t want to die, she just wanted everything to stop.”
Dandelion Dreams
Favorites are a struggle for me. Growing up in a large family, one person’s favorite food, song, tv show, seat on the couch, place at the dinner table, etc., just aren’t that big of a priority. My mom did a great job of ensuring that each of us had our favorite meal and flavor of cake…
YOU Are the Change the World is Looking For
I’m ranty this week…you should know that going in. Might be hormones wreaking havoc, might be finals coming up and my stress level going through the roof, or it might be the fact that one of God’s children crapped on one of my children recently in a way that only a nasty teenage girl could…
The Magical Shining Sink
The last few weeks have been chaos… There are so many things I cannot control in my life, choices made by the people I love being at the top of the list. Today, as I sat with work and school piled up around me, I could not concentrate on anything I really needed to do. …
Family Du Jour
Until today, the term “du jour” always meant “of the day”. Like the “Soup Du Jour”…mmm…I could really go for Panera’s Broccoli Cheese soup right now!!! It’s amazing and just thick enough to stick to your bread with all its cheesy awesomeness having a party in your mouth…but I digress. Today I learned a new…
A Highly Unlikely Life Lesson I Learned from My Hair
I love pretty hair. I have often been told I have beautiful hair, but if anyone could see me right now, no one would understand that sentiment. I wore it in a big bun on top of my head all day and when I released it into its natural state it was so big…
A Tale of Five Friends
Thanksgiving is a time to reflect and be grateful for the rich blessing in our lives. This Thanksgiving season, there is one thing that has been on my mind time and again that I would like to share with all of you. I come from a large Italian family whom I adore and love deeply. …
A Highly Unlikely Hero…At Least an Unsung One
I attended my first ever military retirement ceremony recently. In nineteen years as a military spouse, I attended numerous military functions, ceremonies, balls, and mandatory fun events, but this was my first retirement. As someone who was never that military wife that learned all the acronyms, memorized my husband’s alphanumeric code that represented his job…