Monday is the big online shopping day known as Cyber Monday. Many families will shop online to find amazing deals. Online shopping usually means creating or using passwords and in some cases can mean a greater risk of ne’er-do-wells hacking your computer. (If you want more info on keeping your computer protected head over to […]
This Turkey Walks Into a Store…
Sounds like the start of a Thanksgiving joke right? However, this is no joke but rather a serious matter of public safety. Well, that is not exactly true either. Here is the real story. According to 11alive.com, convenience store manager Sheikh Jahid was surprised when a wild turkey decided to pay the store a visit and was walking up […]
Why Your Kids Should Do Chores
There is something about this picture that gets me thinking about Tom Sawyer painting that fence. Okay, so this is a boy – my son to be exact – painting a wall and not a fence. Regardless, I do love this picture because it shows my son doing something he loves to do; working and doing productive tasks around our house. Based […]
10 Mother-Daughter Date Ideas for the Holiday Season
I love spending one-on-one time with my daughter. Because she is my second born, I do not get as much alone time with her as I did with my son who was an only child for 4 years. Add that fact with the busyness of the holiday season and it can be very challenging to have one-on-one time at all. […]
Christmas Giving Opportunity: Operation Christmas Child
I am delighted to share my absolute favorite Christmas giving opportunity with you. Operation Christmas Child is a program in which people just like you assemble shoe boxes filled with gifts for children who may not get anything else for Christmas. This program brings joy, gifts, and the gospel message to children all over the world. My children get a […]
Friendship: A Collection From Pinterest
There is not much better in life than friendship. I have been blessed in life with friendships that have stood the test of time and of life. True friends bring you joy, hold you accountable, listen to you, are there for you, pray for you, and love you. Oh, and when things get tough they will drop everything […]
Wordless Wednesday – Scorpion for Dinner?
This is my first venture into the Wordless Wednesday phenomenon, but I just had to share this. My husband…what can I say?
When Tragedy Strikes – Answering His Call
I recently heard that a woman I went to high school with lost her husband in a freak accident in Africa. She and her husband were missionaries in Malawi and were doing amazing things there. This woman was not a personal friend of mine, just a very nice girl I once shared a school with. […]
Cub Scouts Popcorn and Troop Donations
My son is a very proud Cub Scout. Every year the Scouts sell popcorn to raise money for all of their fun-filled and educational activities. The popcorn sales are very beneficial to the Pack because 70% of all sales go back to the Pack. You can help by clicking here (my son’s sales for his Pack) to buy popcorn or by supporting your […]
Eight Reasons I Love Fall in the Arizona Desert
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking successive autumns.” -George Eliot This is the time of year that I start to remember why I still live in Arizona and why so many continue to move here. The scorching heat of the Arizona summer seems to be disappearing […]
September 11, 2001 – Moments to Remember
September 11, 2001 is a day that brought me closer to God, changed my perspective on life in America, and set my family on a new path in life. Two months before September 11, my husband signed up to join the National Guard. When we woke up that fateful morning we knew America had been […]
June Bug Baby
The term june bug can refer to any number of beetles, but the cotinus nitida beetle is what comes to mind when I hear someone say june bug. It seems cruel now, but when we were children, my sisters and I used to catch june bugs at my grandmother’s house in Tennessee and tie a piece of thread to one of […]
