“CrAzY EiGhTs”

Well, my friend Christine tagged me, and I have a few minutes when I should be cleaning before I go to work, but I really just want to stay snuggled in bed, so here we go! Here be Da Rules: 1. Mention the person who tagged you. 2. Complete the list of 8’s. 3....

Day 21: Lessons Learned from Mom

Day 21: Finding the Gifts is Half the Fun I don’t know about you, but we have some interesting Christmas traditions–one of which I am sure most people have never even considered. Way back when my parents had a super tight Christmas with almost no money for...

Book Review: Spare Change by Aubrey Mace

I was really excited to attend The Whitney Awards last month, and to meet some great authors (Seeing Jeff Savage dressed up as Stephanie Meyers was pretty fun too.). I’m afraid I didn’t get to meet Aubrey Mace, but as I had just purchased her book Spare...

Day 19: Lessons Learned from Mom

Day 19: Gardens are Great Yeah, so if you’ve read my blog before, you probably noticed that I write about gardening a lot. Well, maybe not so much lately, because I’m a total slacker–I have blogs planned, I just need to squeeze them into my day. But...

Day 18: Lessons Learned from Mom

Day 18: Judge Not Okay, first, I need to quailfy that statement. When I had foster kids I had a teenager who was upset one of the neighbors wouldn’t let their daughter go with my foster daughter and her mom to a concert. She was upset because she felt like my...

Day 17: Lessons Learned from Mom

Day 17: Cinnamon Rolls were Invented for Long Trips Okay so maybe that’s not true, maybe they were just invented because they are dang good, but in any case, we often had them on campouts or on long car rides, especially if we were going to leave really early in...