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During our lives, we go through many changes. As a child, we grow, go to school and learn many of the important lessons of life, such as gratitude, accepting our differences and how to love one another.
As an adult, we also go through growth, schooling (although not always in a formal setting) and learning to [...]
Our guest blog today is by Abby. Abby volunteers in her community and is a mother and grandmother. She is a great friend and prolific writer. Today, she shares her insights about a child growing up and going to college.
Saying goodbye is often difficult. I was talking with my dear friend [...]
My children play a game with each other. It is called the Spontaneous Random Hugging. Any one of them (my son rarely is the caller) calls out “spontaneous random hugging moment!!!!” Whoever is closest together then give a hug. Often it is a group hug.
I marvel at my children understanding the need for hugs on [...]
“Sometimes, it is nice to just be us.” I woke up early this morning (my husband was already awake). I lay in my bed, trying to decide if I would wake up or go back to sleep, and I thought about how nice it is that all of us are home. An overwhelming calm and [...]
Years ago, I fell in love with a song by the Carpenters. Here are the words:
Sometimes, not often enough, we reflect upon the good things
And our thoughts always center around those we love.
And I think about the people who mean so much to me
And for so many years have made me so very happy.
And I [...]
Many countries celebrate the day when they declared or became independent. In the United States, we celebrate on July 4th.
In 1776, after much discussion and debate by representatives from each of the thirteen original colonies (check your history memory, can you name them all?), the text of the Declaration of Independence was [...]
I love being a mom. I will say it again. I love being a mom. It is the greatest and the hardest and the most rewarding and most trying thing I have ever done, after being a wife. I love being a mom of daughters. I love being a mom of sons. I love being [...]
Last week, my neighbor gave me her dryer. Yes, like a washer/dryer…she gave me her dryer. Her washer gave out, was under warranty, and so she was replacing it anyway. When she told me, I asked–almost flippantly–if she was replacing her dryer, too, and giving her old one to me. I [...]
Senora Smart Dodd was raised by her father. She thought about a day to honor her father as she sat at church on Mother’s Day in 1909. In 1924, President Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Today, we celebrate Father’s Day on the third Sunday each June.
I have known many wonderful fathers [...]
I love when I have French fries and a ketchup packet that squirts ketchup directly onto the fry before I sail it into my mouth. It’s got to be one of my favorite things about life.
I love reading in the sunshine. It doesn’t matter where I am, as long as there is sun and as [...]
