“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.”
The best time of my day is early morning. It is that time of day I can almost imagine, almost feel that “all is right” in my world. That I’m fine, that I don’t hurt, that I can breath. […]
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September’s Calendar
1. Look at September’s calendar, I’m thinking I need to invest heavily in Calgon …. I’m sure there are going to be several “Calgon, Take Me Away” moments.
2. Ethan audtioned for not 1, but 2 plays, with a good chance of being in both. One performs in October. […]
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You know that entry I wrote yesterday? for Passing the Torch? Kelly selected it as the entry of the week. And I get this really cool award to put in my sidebar. But thats not why I wrote it. I really like what Kelly is doing, and if you […]
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CWO posts a quote every Friday in hopes that it will inspire us, as members of Christian Women Online to jot down our thoughts. On each Tuesday following, they post our written articles here, along with links to the other Christian women online who are joining in with a post on their blog.
“I […]
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Kelly believes in our youth and has started a new meme called “Pass the Torch”. The guidelines are simple: Catch ‘em being good — write about a kid/young person you witness doing something right (or smart, or helpful or responsible, etc.) Let me share with you, one time I caught Ethan “being good.”
“Sing to […]
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from teh safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Being overweight has been a way of life […]
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Barb at A Chelsea Morning would like to know how we, as bloggers, have come up with our blogging titles. I enjoyed reading through the list of bloggers who had answered, and thought I would do mine as well.
A Prairie View.
Several years ago, when new to computer, my email name was “angelrose” or […]
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Julies at Everyday Mommy has invited us to sit at her front porch. She has hot chocolate or coffee waiting for us. She would like to know how we are doing today? Did we have a good weekend? She realizes that she doesn’t know much about us and […]
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This morning did not out well — I did not feel well at all. But, did get to feeling better as the day progressed, and it turned into a pretty decent day. We got 2 major things accomplished that have been on our “to do” list for awhile. The desk behind […]
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“You see - in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know! Knowing is not enough! You must take action!”
I am the QUEEN of knowing what to do. Its the “putting into action” part that trips me up every time. However. This time — […]
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Here in Wordpress, you log in, and it takes you to the “dashboard” page, where you can choose from all kinds of things — writing your entry, editing it, adding links, changing already loaded ‘themes”, activating/deactivating plugins, etc. Also on this page, is a list of my last 10 entries, how […]
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No one knows what he can do till he tries” - Publilus Syrus
Time and time again, you will see a success story, alot of times dealing with weight loss, when they will say “If I can do it, so can you”. For so long, I was in a “diet” frame of main, always thinking […]
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I tend to forget things easily these days; or in the course of a day, just dont’ have time to do everything I want. Here in WordPress, you can save things in Draft mode; so very often, I’ll do nothing more than type in a heading, of something I want to remember […]
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Appetizer:
If you could have a free subscription to any magazine, which one would you like to have?
I can’t think of names right now (other than Readers Digest) — but I would say either a Scrapbooking one, or a Women’s Daily Devotional kind of magazine.
Soup:
Describe your living room (furnishings, colors, etc.)
Wood paneling on the […]
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“Forget past mistakes, forget failures, forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.” ~William Durant
My 21 day challenge is to prepare myself for a wonderful and exciting journey. A journey to a better life, better living the day to day stuff. To be able to enjoy life, and not […]
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Ethan had a good 1st day of school. He likes all of his classes — and sounds excited about some of the things they will be doing. Something that surprises me, and yet, I guess, if you think about it, it shouldn’t surprise me. In a couple of his classes, there is […]
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As always, I am a little behind of everyone else. But that doesn’t mean I still can’t march to the beat of my own drummer. I have watched, admired, drooled over the {21} Day Challenge – through all 5 rounds. The orginal concept was to combine journaling with scrapbooking. To take […]
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Ethan and the School Year
1. Today is the 1st day of school for our school district.
2. Surrounding schools started last week.
3. Its hard to buy school supplies when they don’t send out a supply list. But…I do understand why they don’t. In High School, there are so many […]
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Well, not me, — Ethan — and actually, he doesn’t see clearly… yet. But he will. His glasses are a couple of years old. Last year he wanted contacts, and we went that route. He doesn’t wear them all the time like he thought it would, but he […]
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A couple of quiet days, just still having problems getting back in the groove of things. But I’m not giving up!
Yesterday was an uncommonly quiet, calm day at the office. The phone didn’t ring off the hook, David didn’t encounter too many driver problems. It was nice, just working […]
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Jules at Everyday Mommy has started a new meme… Front Porch Days. Recalling the days when everyone would sit on the porch, and just chat, being silly or maybe a serious conversation would be the topic of the day. She will ask a question each Monday, and we are invited to come “sit” […]
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Its been a busy weekend. After saying I was going to wait until school started to get Ethan’s school supplies, I decided to go ahead and get him the basics. That — and I want to take the Explorer on a road trip and see how it did. It did […]
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This & That
1. VBS was last week, and that took up alot of my evenings. Now I’m having a hard time getting back into the routine of blogging.
2. Doesn’t help though when the hubby has been home most eveings, and we’ve been on a mission.
3. The Mission? […]
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…of “We Resume Our Regularly Scheduled Program”. You would have thought after the hectic-ness of VBS, I would have been back here, in full force. And I have been. Kinda. Just not on the word side. I know many would consider this a cop-out … an […]
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Whew! What a week. A great week, but a tiring week. a BUSY week. And now, we finish cleaning up, sweeping away any evidence that 50 young minds were soaking up the word of God this week. At least the physical evidence. The kids had a great time, and […]
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