New! Prayer Planner There are a lot of people dealing with a lot of stressful things right now, and it may seem like the most you can do is pray for them. I get it. I'm always grabbing a sticky note from my desk to make a reminder to check in on someone, send a meal...
Follow my blog with Bloglovin How many Sunday nights do you say… "Ugh, I wish the weekend was longer." Every Sunday? Yeah, me too. I am overdue for a vacation so I decided to take a "fauxcation." Mine was a 10-day break from work and whatever else I just didn't feel...
What has happened here??? via GIPHY Think back to a decade ago: The market had crashed; Apple released its new product, the iPad; Justin Beiber was just discovered on YouTube. Social media had started getting real momentum and blogging was this new phenomenon...
So let me tell you about my day yesterday. Nothing ruins your mood like a nail in your tire. I suspected that I had one so I went to (unnamed national tire place) and stood in line for 30 minutes to talk with someone, watching them be forcefully nice and work every...
Ebola is so polarizing. People are scared. Smarty-pants people are scolding the scared, telling them to calm down. People pointing fingers at other people to blame. It's a big hot mess.The way I see it, fear and logic don’t play nice with each other and it’s just...
I’ve never connected with Gwyneth Paltrow before I had the realization that I’m having a “conscious uncoupling” from my six year old. It’s not my idea, it’s the Cupcake’s. And don’t get me wrong, I’m thrilled with her newfound sense maturity, even though I’m secretly...
My mother, God rest her soul, missed out on some amazing moments and years upon years of family events. She missed out a chance to enjoy her retirement with her new husband. She missed seeing me walk down the aisle, holding her first and only grandchild,...
One of the best gifts I received this mother’s day was not from the hubs or even Princess Cupcake. It was from Mother Nature. All day long we watched a mourning dove fly from the yard to the porch, porch to the yard, yard to the porch, over and over and over again....
Follow my blog with Bloglovin In the spirit of April Fool's Day, and because the statue of limitations in Ohio has been surpassed, I'll confess to the funniest prank I ever did. It's was a Saturday night in Athens, Ohio. Me and a couple of my AGD sorority sisters were...
It's Spring Break in Texas and unlike the weather of last week --which included an ice storm and the Princess Cupcake home from school -- today was the type of day that you fall in love with Texas over. Not a cloud in the sky, light breeze, and temperatures in the low...
I got a mammogram today. I did and I am proud of it. Didn't say I enjoyed it, no one enjoys the rubber gloved hand contorting the girls around and smashing them into a crepe. I'd say most women fall in the range of considering it a completely abhorrent experience to...
Happy Anniversary to us! You hear it all the time. People talk about their years of “wedded bliss,” but -- come on. We all know that this "bliss" they refer to is not all truffles and roses. In fact, the roses stopped coming in our house years ago -- but it doesn’t...
As I stood in the living room, my place in a make-shift receiving line to say my good-byes, my brain raced with what to say. The line wasn’t moving so I had some time. Everyone wanted to stretch those last precious moments with Cindy, so it was totally believable that...
I broke my 17 year streak. We were on our way home from the Girls Beach Vacation. It was about 9 o’clock at night and we were trekking across the widest part of south Louisiana, the Cupcake asleep with her Barbie movie still playing in her lap and me dialed into HLN...
I want you to meet my people. These are them, these are my soul sisters, my spirit animals, the companies I love.
