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I have pictures to post on my blog from our Christmas celebration, I really do.  I look at recent posts and I realize – time is flying by…faster and faster. It seems that only Facebook has seen posts from me lately, so I have been thinking – I want to get back to my blog. I miss it. Most likely my readership will have to be rebuilt and my page ranking, but that’s not what my blog was ever about anyway.  Not really.  I love blogging , remember?  At least when I had time to blog, I did... Read Full Story

As Jas and I sit at the urgent care clinic to get his ear checked out,  we both sit with our tech devices in full swing.  I decided to look for the blogger app so I could possibly post for my readers and I found it! Being a single mom is full of challenges and those challenges change as the children age. Tonight would have required bringing both children, one well, into an environment with germs and other niceties when they were younger. Now that i'm dealing with teens (Kass is just two... Read Full Story

While the debate is on in the background, I wanted to sit down and finally f.i.n.a.l.l.y. write another blog.  I have so much to share with my readers, but I will spare you the boring and only share the highlights. The kiddos Jas and Kass, the kiddos… I now refer to them in public as “the bigguns.”  They are growing up so fast I can’t keep up; and I am with them every day. (Well almost every day. But I digress <= already!) Kass has a boyfriend. Seriously you don’t want me to get started on... Read Full Story

To take you away from the recent gloom and doom in the news from the stock market decline to London’s riots and Philadelphia’s youth vandalizing (What’s up with that, right?), let me share with you some sense of escape for a few minutes about a magical place… We have now returned from our “magical” vacation.  This is the one I have wanted to take the kiddos on since they were young and finally was successful doing so.  Even though they fought like cats and dogs  - yes they don’t get along... Read Full Story

Take some time out this weekend and get the kiddos outside.  I know how much they all love video games and being on the computer. Trust me. I do. But it is healthier for them to have some time in the sun and exercising. “But I’m bored” This is one famous common phrase said by so many children, yet in today’s world – they have so much more stuff than “we” did when we were their age.  But in many ways with so much “more,” some of our little ones might have lost the incentive or the initiative... Read Full Story

For all my readers, I wanted to share a great article with you that a friend of mine shared with me. Here is the link below.  All parents have to take measures to protect their children and to know what to look out for.  This is especially true when around the water. So if you plan to visit the beach this summer, the lake over Memorial Day, or even if you just plan to go to the pool nearby, take a few moments to read this article, Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning by Mario Vittone. by... Read Full Story

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After reading The Final Summit, I was intrigued.  Not only were facts from history included that I had never heard revealed but I also enjoyed the concept of having so many great men (and women) in the same room passionately solving the greatest problem of humanity. Andy Andrews puts life into perspective and brings history to life similar to his recent book, The Butterfly Effect .  In my younger years, I never enjoyed reading history books or history classes; but this book, full of facts and... Read Full Story

Spring has sprung and Easter arrived to celebrate new life, and for Christians – the new life you received  when you accepted the very Easter story . His story in history is what gives us joy unspeakable.  I celebrated the day without the kiddos (it was their dad’s weekend, you know). Following a morning of worship celebration at church, I went with friends to a dynamic 2 hour drama of the Resurrection of Christ in Radford that night. The day was full and the focus was obvious.  It is tough... Read Full Story

The kiddos are gone for the weekend.  As I sit here, I take advantage of a few minutes between loads of laundry and gather my thoughts.  We have been doing this “visitation” for over seven years now and yet I still get that feeling in my heart on the Fridays when I realize they will be leaving to go with their dad after school. These weekends are scheduled to be productive time, me-time , or a combination of the two for me.  And I try to spend some time, in silence, enjoying… the… quiet.  The... Read Full Story