The latest on the blog
No Exchanges. No Returns.
My friend, Sarah was so excited to give her gifts to her friends because she hand-picked the gifts carefully based on her friends' likes and what they were good at. Sarah gave Friend A her gift of scrapbooking materials; great stickers, beautiful pages and elaborate...
Checkmate With a Bigger King
When I was younger, I remember trying to learn to play chess. Each player has 16 game pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns (don't worry I had to look that one up!) The object of the game is to get the opponent's king in...
The Giving Challenge
I am proud to promote my friend, Stephanie Jones's new book, The Giving Challenge - 40 Days to a More Generous Life. It's a great read and an exciting challenge you will want to take!! Stephanie started a goal of doing a kindness act every day for one month. One...
Be Positive And Pray…And Watch God Work
As I try to write today all that keeps coming to the forefront of my mind is Ephesians 6:12: For our struggle is not against flesh and blood but against.....the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. This means our struggle is not against people but against...
Four Little Words
I was reading something several years ago about having a "word of the year". I've done this in the past. One year my word was JOY. My favorite word is BELIEVE so I chose it one year. Another year it was RELAX. I put the word of the year all around my house as a...
Today’s Time Management
Got a minute? Wait a minute. Just a minute. It will only take a minute. In a minute. A New York minute! Any minute now. We use the word "minute" to describe a very short period of time. We request it all the time from others. "Got a minute? I need to run something...
Petty Polls and Proud Professions
As we approach the inauguration of the incoming President #45 in the United States, many people are wondering how the polls could have been so wrong. Polls showed that Hilary Clinton was going to win the 2016 presidential election by a landslide. But at the end of...
We’re All In This Together
Have you ever been around people who like to talk about what ails them? I thought it was just more "seasoned" people who talked about all of their aches and pains because they didn't have anything else to talk about. They share all the ailments they have when asked...
Mountain Dew Saves The Day
My husband, Roger, and I were in WalMart last night purchasing hundreds of dollars of WalMart gift cards to put in buckets to be delivered to Riley Children's Hospital today. Because we were purchasing so many, it took quite a while. We had purchased a few other...
