by Deanna Young | Aug 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
Toddlers. They think they can do everything themselves. They see older kids and adults doing it and they want to do it, too. And as parents or caretaking adults, we let them do it… until we can no longer take it and patience runs out and we have to help them....
by Deanna Young | Aug 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again. -F. Scott Fitzgerald This quote is taken from the new book by Shauna Niequist, Present Over Perfect – Leaving Behind...
by Deanna Young | Aug 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
When my sister was little, she was very attached to her pacifier even as a toddler. Mom tried to take it away and she was very insistent on keeping it. It was one of the old kind – the heavy rubbery kind. She loved to pull on the end while chomping down on...
by Deanna Young | Aug 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
While on vacation we tried to leave the worries behind but the cracked windshield saga on the rental car and several other things snuck their way into the worry portion of our minds. But when we went to San Diego with our cousins for a long weekend, it seemed all of...
by Deanna Young | Aug 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
What a great vacation we had visiting cousins in Arizona and delivering buckets to children’s hospitals in New Mexico, Utah and Nevada!! We have now delivered 3,000 buckets in 17 states and Canada! Thank you to all the volunteers who have made this happen over...
by Deanna Young | Aug 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
We were on vacation driving a rental car and a rock flew up and cracked our windshield. It was a significant crack – probably 6 inches on one part and 4 on the other. We contacted the rental car company and they said to go to the nearest Enterprise® car rental...