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I pray this weekend brings you joy, laughter and some much needed rest. Get outside and enjoy the beautiful fall weather. Eat, drink and be merry. And if you haven’t yet seen The Dolphin Tale, I highly recommend you go. We’ve been coming to visit Winter for years and she is truly a delight. She’s […]
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– This week I refinished Tia’s furniture with the help of my St. Louis neighbor turned Florida bestie, Carol. It was brown, now it’s white. I’ll share pictures once I have her room all put together. All I can say is I had tons of fun decorating a little girl’s room for the very first […]
[Continue reading...]Today is my Dad’s birthday and while I’d like to write up a lovely tribute in his honor, I’m not sure I can top what I wrote last year. So I am going to repost it with a great big, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD attached to it. Many of you already read this, so don’t feel […]
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We sat outside, the twinkle of the white lights giving the night sky a blissful glow. There were five of us, four young ones…and me. They call me their favorite mom-friend and I take it as a great compliment. Each one of those girls holds a unique and special place in my heart. Each one […]
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When I made this decision, I knew it wouldn’t be easy. Staying at home with your children full time is hard. It’s a different kind of hard when you choose to not only be their mother, but also their full time educator. I knew it would be hard going into this. And I was right. […]
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When we began our house search in sunny Florida, we initially told our Realtor we did NOT want a pool. Neither one of us grew up with a pool, therefore the idea of keeping and maintaining one was desperately daunting. Then we started looking at houses and we realized two things: 1.) Finding a house […]
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It is quiet and I am alone. Three children sleep in their beds, the first time all three have slept in their beds since we moved in. A new house is scary. There are sounds to fear. And other things… “Mom, I can’t sleep,” he said, coming out for the four-frillionth time. “I’m too scared!” […]
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So here it is, friends. I am struggling with the rat race that has become social media and there is one reason for it: I don’t flipping have time. I love blogging. This here little space of mine is where I often times work out what’s swirling around inside my head and heart. I don’t […]
[Continue reading...]I’m writing this from beneath a mountain of boxes. I managed to carve a path from the kids’ rooms to my own where I have prepared a bed on the floor for the first to wake up scared and hightail it this way. I thought packing boxes was overwhelming, but unpacking them raising the bar […]
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“Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do…but how much love we put in that action.” Mother Teresa “The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” Maya Angelou “Nothing can bring a real sense of […]
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