Around here, we are spoiled to summers that extend right into October. The nights start getting cooler mid-September, typically, but the days stay nice and warm for quite awhile. It’s nothing unusual to go to the pumpkin patch in short-sleeve shirts or even shorts. This year we had a week in October with temperatures in [...]
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On October 27, 2001 I became Mickey’s wife. That’s the day I was so blessed as to marry my true love, the man God intended for me. These years together have been the best of my life. In these seven years we have grown from a family of two to a family of four. We [...]
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Last evening when the girls and I returned home from Macey’s ballet class and a trip by the library, we spied an orange plastic pumpkin by our front door. Macey was quick to retrieve it as she was just sure there were goodies there for her. The pumpkin had two Halloween baggies of treats in [...]
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I decided to start a new “set” of posts here called “In My Opinion” where I tell what I think about certain things. Not that I expect many people to put a whole lot of stock into my opinion, but, hey, this is a blog and it’s mine, so I get to be opinionated here, [...]
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Savannah from Savannah, Savannah Series #1
By Denise Hildreth / Thomas Nelson
When 24 year old Savannah learns her mother-a cross between Scarlett O’Hara and Martha Stewart-is behind her recent triumph in a fiction contest, she abandons her dreams of literary fame and decides to pursue journalism instead. Her first assignment for the local [...]
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Beyond the Shadows
By Robin Lee Hatcher / Tyndale House
Loneliness and grief stalk Deborah Haskin after her husband’s death, but hope eases her pain when she marries Gideon. After their marriage, Deborah discovers a devastating secret—Gideon is an alcoholic! How can someone who has brought her healing bring so much hurt, too? A poignant tale based [...]
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I got tagged by Wife and Mommy to write seven random things about myself. Once I do this, I get to tag some of you. So, here are the rules:
1. Post the rules on your blog.
2. Write 7 random things about yourself.
3. Tag 7 people at [...]
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It’s a rainy day here today. Sometimes when it rains here, we get just enough to wet everything and that’s about it. Other times it rains sporadically throughout the day. But, today the rain has been steadily falling and that has been a blessing because things had gotten so dry around here lately. It’s been [...]
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I really don’t want to wish life away, so I don’t literally want it to be November quite yet. I want to savor October and enjoy all of the adventures of early fall. But, honestly, in some ways I do wish it were November so that this election season would be behind us already. I [...]
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This is another free offer that I have personally done and enjoyed. Click here to get a free Kashi cookie! I did this a couple of weeks ago and got my cookie pretty promptly thereafter. I wasn’t expecting much, to be bluntly honest, but the cookie was really quite good. I liked that it was [...]
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