PREPARING FOR LENT
I’ve had a lot on my mind lately. A jumbled up mess of thoughts that I itch to write about, but that I can never put into order enough to do so. While riding in the truck or taking a shower, I write blog posts in […]
Category: Musings
FINAL 2018 THOUGHTS
I know there’s still over a week in 2018, but lets be real here: this will be the last time I blog this year. So, 2018… you’ve been a year. I can’t call it a bad year. I really can’t. It’s had some pretty incredible […]
THANKFUL HEART
Happy Thanksgiving!! I thought about making a long Facebook status update, but I realized it probably made more sense to take it to ye ol’ blog. My husband and I did Thanksgiving with my family when we traveled to Texas a little over a week […]
NEW MONTH, FRESH START
I try really hard not to live too much in the future, worrying about what’s next and not appreciating today. But my September calendar needs to go away already. It was just full. Don’t get me wrong. It was a good month! It was perhaps […]
ENCOURAGEMENT
Earlier this week, I saw and shared a post on Facebook from a high school in Michigan about their way of honoring the 17 students lost in the Parkland, Florida school shooting a month prior. “They were each given 17 sticky notes to symbolize the […]
IT’S A LOT
Have you ever noticed how life can just cruise along with everything just clicking along. The occasional high. The occasional low. But mostly it just stays steady. And then seemingly out of the blue, as if you’ve hit turbulence in an airplane, its up and […]
THAT’S A WRAP ON 2017
We all tend to do a final look back on the previous year and/or a look to the future on December 31st. We count our successes. We analyze our failures. We prepare for whats to come in the next 12 months. As I look back […]
CHRISTMAS WISHES
My husband came home today after being on the road for over a month. And he came home to a wife who has had the Christmas Spirit better than she has in years. (Uhm. That would be me, for anyone not following along.) When my […]