Bringin’ that simple life back

Have you slowed down? Have you found you don’t “need” the things you thought you did? Have you become a homebody? Are you eating dinners together? Are you actually TALKING to each other? Are you sitting on your porch watching the sun set? Are you becoming more creative? Are you learning to cook new meals [...]

Stop apologizing ✋

I'm the grandma that posts a zillion pictures of my grandson & family to Facebook. I'm the one who always has my camera on hand for photo ops. Quite honestly there have been times where I think "man I shouldn't post so many pics of Connor, people probably get so annoyed." But then I stop [...]

A different kind of Easter 🐣

Happy Easter! Our kids were busy today so we postponed our Easter Celebration for a few weeks. Mark and I decided to go to church in the morning, then to a movie and dinner. We saw the movie "I Can Only Imagine". I may possibly never hear that song the same again. I'm not going [...]

🎶Just be Held🎶

Click on the link below, close your eyes, listen and let it give you peace. In the midst of circumstances in life these words can comfort you. They sure have been helping me to know that God is bigger. This song has came to my rescue more than once. Just be Held Hold it all [...]

~Grateful~Thankful~Blessed~

I’m exceptionally happy these days! I don’t know, it’s like life has finally just become what I needed it to be. Or maybe I’ve become what I needed to be. Regardless it’s been a nice change compared to the miserable,cranky, crabby, self-absorbed, negative, stuck in a slump way of being.  Things that just cluttered my [...]

Child like faith 

I am so blessed! We had Connor, our grandson, this entire weekend and he was perfect! I cannot say enough good things about what a sweet special little boy he is. That says a lot about momma and daddy because they are the ones who have molded him to be the great little guy he [...]

Hey baby, what’s your sign?

I’m not 100% sold on the whole zodiac, horoscope stuff but damn, some of these cancer sign quotes are soooo spot on! I am deeply intuitive. I can spot a fake, can tell if someone is lying, know your story before you do. Often underestimated because I am usually the quiet one who tries not [...]

The great pretender 

Well it may appear that I’ve fallen off the face of the earth. I haven’t posted anything for a long time. I guess in a way I HAVE fallen off the radar. Been a crazy year that’s for sure. Very enlightening!  Sometimes you learn that you have walked the same path as others and had [...]

Emotionally spent

Here I sit, 12 days since my Gram passed away...unable to cry. I feel completely emotionless, blank, numb. I'm the one who cries over absolutely everything-commercials on tv, seeing something moving in complete strangers, words to a song, fleeting thoughts---yet one of the most important people in my life has died and I can't even [...]

Hunting season eve

Well, it's the evening before gun hunting here in Wisconsin.  Hunting is such an important part of my family's life. The men in my immediate family prefer bow hunting over gun hunting by far, but there is something intriguing about this time of year.   Every year, religiously, I make "Papas chili". Years ago when [...]