Today’s prompt from The Sway is probably the easiest and hardest for me to answer. WRITE A POST INSPIRED BY THIS WORD: FAMILY Wow! Family can mean a lot of different things to different people. When I think of the word “family” I think of comfort and safety and acceptance and love. Family doesn’t have to […]
Family
5 VALENTINE’S DAY DATE IDEAS FOR PEOPLE ON A BUDGET
I’m having a lot of fun posting every day of February using the prompts I found on The Sway. You can read my first two prompts here and here. Today’s prompt…… 5 VALENTINE’S DAY DATE IDEAS FOR PEOPLE ON A BUDGET Being married for almost 32 years and after 6 kids, we’ve been through all […]
HAPPY GROUNDHOG DAY!
I’m on my second day of blogging every day for the month of February challenge. I found some great prompts over on The Sway Today’s prompt is “GROUNDHOG DAY! DID YOU SEE YOUR SHADOW WHEN YOU WENT OUTSIDE THIS MORNING?” When thinking about this question, three different ideas popped into my head. #1 The history […]
MY TRIP TO THE WINDY CITY
I am NOT a traveler! I am a homebody. I love being in my comfort zone with my family sleeping in my own comfy bed. But when my sweet BFF invited me to be her first guest in her new townhouse, I put my fears and anxiety aside, packed my bags and hopped on a […]
THE HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE ~ letting go of my baby girl!
Today I dropped this sweet, beautiful girl off for High School Freshman Camp. She’ll spend two hours getting her schedule of classes, touring her new school and playing some bonding games with other freshman classmates. As I watched the smaller than “normal” girl hop out of the car and walk into the gigantic high school […]
COLLEGE GRADUATION ~ and a little picnic
Just yesterday I was walking Son #3 to the bus stop for his first day of kindergarten. Then I blinked………. and this happened. As a toddler, he would jump around the house like “Tigger.” He was a ball of energy that ran full speed all day until he crashed into bed and fell fast asleep […]