"So you just keep stretching until you can do it?" "My daughter really wants to marry your son." "It would take about three weeks to...

Hi friends. It's been a hot minute. Or a "cold hour,” if you live in the North East. The Lord opened the sweetest opportunity to...

On very rare occasions my sweetheart and I write each other messages in soap on the bathroom mirror. The most recent message from my...

I did NOT grow up around children. No babies to learn to coddle, no toddlers to learn to be patient with. Hi Friends. Happy Fri-yay. Few...

It was a beautiful day for a trip to West Virginia for a wedding. Recently we celebrated my adorable nephew and his sweet bride. Happy...

Did I take a Dunkin' pumpkin coffee into Starbucks to sit and write you all? Why yes. Yes I did. The Forties has brought new levels of...

( bonus points if you can finish this poetic sentence ) A recent home school conversation went like this: Daughter : Mom! Want me to...

Hi friends. Happy Saturday to ya. The August air is warm and lovely here in Northeast Ohio. And since it has been a "minute" since I've...

I remember that time a dear family in the church gave my husband and I a beautiful yellow climbing rose bush and then left just after it...

I won my 6th grade talent competition lip-synching to Amy Grant's "Sing your Praise to the Lord," on a record borrowed from my sweet...

The blossoms on the lilac bush are about a week or so from making their debut. Just in time for my birthday. Happy Wednesday friends. I'm...

Hi friends. Happy Thursday from the local library that seems a lot warmer and more crowded than I ever remember. I thought it was time to...

Some "cheeky" one left a dry-erase marker message on the light blue tile just above the downstairs toilet paper dispenser and it makes me...

I have this thing where I tell each of my kids that they are my absolute "favorite." Hi friends. It's been a hot minute. I'm leaving palm...

I smiled while sipping tea at my parents' house when my Mom asked me where I was writing today. "Do you write on your phone?" "No, Mom. ...

"Mom, you having a blog really makes me think twice before doing something stupid, so.... that's good!" This from my youngest while...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! With caroling and cookies and cantatas and children’s programs and then…the inevitable...

Welcome to the archives again this week friends. May your turkey be delicious and your airpods, charged. (smile) It's almost midnight the...

Happy Thursday friends. I greet you from Panera and the "drafts" section of my website where I will be sharing some oldies-but-goodies...

Long ago in a far away era lived the label maker from Dymo. It boasted of organizational progress bar none. Do you even remember the 3D...