I Had An Idea

My own idea! Not an idea from Pinterest! It’s amazing how excited I was to make something that I came up with on my own after months of pinning and making, pinning and making (not sure I’m sticking to my “make one for every ten pins” rule). I was led to wonder then if Pinterest [...]

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Dear 18 Year Old Me

This was a fun exercise in creativity. After you read mine, head over to Dear 18 Me and write yours. Do it today and you’ll be entered into a drawing for a $10 iTunes card! Dear 18 year old me, I (you) recently watched this episode of Star Trek (yeah, a day will come when [...]

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Thinking of Hazel

I was thinking of my Grandma Hazel a lot tonight. I don’t talk about her much and I don’t get to see her very often. She’s pretty sick these days and it’s hard for us to have conversations, mostly because she can’t hear very well anymore and whenever I’m with her my three kidlets are [...]

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Seriously Mom?

It happened without warning. My little boy, my silly, loves potty talk and nonsense,  dancey dancin’, wriggles and giggles boy, turned grown up on me. Maybe it was just for a moment, and maybe tomorrow he’ll be begging for more dancey dance time, but today, as I sort of absent-mindedly began to sing “You Are [...]

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Oh, The Places You’ll Go . . . . .

. . . .  in your head while sitting in the ER. According to strengthsfinder.com, I am Empathic. (If you think I’m referring to a certain Bedazoid, you’re a kindred spirit, but that’s not quite what I’m referring to.) I’m talking about the more simple ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Empathy [...]

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All For My Glory . . . Er, Ah, I Mean Yours

I have a story to tell. Why don’t I get asked to tell it?   I have a blog. Why can’t it be good enough for hundreds, even thousands of readers? I can sing. Why didn’t I get asked to lead worship? I want to serve. Why am I not being used? Do you ever [...]

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Reaching For Resting Faith

Have you ever caught yourself watching something you should look away from? Something you keep looking at, enthralled at the atypical-ness of the situation and before you know it, you realize you’ve been staring? I found myself looking in on a scene today between a mom and daughter (I assume) and wish I hadn’t. I [...]

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One, Tidy Space

I’ve discovered something yesterday not a moment too soon. It seems to me that when all around me is chaos and there’s no letup on the horizon,  if I can find one, small space and put it in perfect order, I can gain a small amount of sanity from it. There’s a positive energy in [...]

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Indie Craft Parade and Girly Treasures

love the way little girls gather random items, put them in some sort of container and then carry it around everywhere they go. No less than five times in as many minutes, the box is opened and each of the various treasures within are laid out for admiration and inspection.  A miniature Tinker Bell figurine;  [...]

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Discoveries: Cullen’s Bistro

Yesterday wasn’t the first time Andy’s treated me to one of my new Greenville favorites, but it was no less satisfying than the first visit.  Cullen’s Seasonal Bistro is a little hole in the wall out on Woodruff Rd. that no one would think a second time about if they drove past.  Inside this hole [...]

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