Tomorrow is our schools Kindergarten Celebration Day, which means it’s the last Wednesday of the 2018-2019 school year! I can’t believe how it’s flown by! The excitement for summer is palpable in our school building, and especially in kindergarten! And with the end of the year comes my end of the school year student gifts!…
The New Year has come in a whirlwind! 2018 disappeared almost faster than it came! But I entered into 2019 armed with my New Year’s resolutions ready to do business. Now here it is in March, and I do believe I’ve made a little progress. This post is not actually about my resolutions. Instead, it’s…
Have you ever sat still for a moment, maybe at home, and felt a sudden tidal wave of worry and anxiety bear upon you? And this tidal wave, you realize, isn’t just now hitting you, but instead has been chipping away at you like the waves on a coastal cliff. This was me a month…
These past two weeks have been a whirlwind of troubles. And I don’t know about you, but most of the time I end up worrying and fretting way too much instead of praying and trusting the Lord. Then one day, early in the morning like today, I decide to open my Bible app to see…
Recently my husband and I had my cousin and her family over to hang out with us here at the ranch. Of course we had to go horseback riding, so our husbands worked hard to saddle up the horses and get everything ready. Well they were not ready to get on their horses yet, so…
October has proven to be an extremely busy month for me! Especially the past 2 weeks, with my formative evaluation at work (after 3 weeks of fretting about when it was going to happen), a week of book fair, full moon, Reading Night on Thursday at school that lasted from 5-7:30, Friday with our Harvest…
“This post contains affiliate links, which means I receive a smallcommission, at no extra cost to you, if you make a purchase using this link.Please see my disclosure for more details” It’s funny to me how I can be oblivious to myself sometimes. Truly. Because I have always felt like I was one of those…
Thoughts, thoughts, thoughts… And more thoughts! Being of an anxious, overthinking, and sometimes fearful disposition, I battle thoughts running through my mind like that scene in The Lion King where Simba sees the herd of wilderbeasts fleeing the hyenas and tripping over themselves and running into everything in the canyon. Thoughts and questions and scenarios…
Recently I needed to make some punch for a retirement party at my elementary school. I volunteered myself for this duty because the usual ginger ale and grape juice recipe was beginning to get old, and I knew I had a the best punch recipe. A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT to Mary Alice who introduced me…
One thing I’ve come to know about myself is that I love apples and apple flavored anything. So when I was perusing my The Taste of Home Cookbook and found a recipe for apple-glazed pork chops, I had to try it (pg. A19 under 30 Minute LIght Entrees)! Since Nicolas and I are not big…
I love displaying photographs of my favorite moments. It seems to make a house feel more like a home, and photos can be excellent conversation starters if you are welcoming guests into your living space. When we moved into our little 900-ish square foot duplex, I quickly realized that the more we put on the…
One of my absolute most favorite things to do as the seasons change is to change the flower decorations in my church. Since spring is all about fresh, fragrant air that brings a sense of new beginnings and energy, my mother and I decided to head on over to our local Michael’s store to see…