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I made it home to Arizona tonight. I am so happy to be home and relieved to have a drivers license. So, please take my advice and go make a copy of your license and put it in your hideaway place, ok? It will save you some heartache if you ever have to overnight one to...

*This poem was written by my mother and she retains all copyright** Have you ever been to Red Letter Words? Dee does amazing work! My mother wrote this poem before school one morning last year. She has taught 7th grade English in inner city Houston for the last 17...

Remember when I said I was headed to Florida yesterday? Well ~ that was before my wallet decided to ditch me. So, here I am this morning. Sitting at mom's house praying that the UPS driver man shows up with an Arizona license just for me. {note to self:  must buy...

This will be the first Thanksgiving in the history of my life not to have a little of Grandma White's cranberry salad. She is in the hospital and is spitting mad that we will have to come see her on Thanksgiving and not the other way around. {The song, "I wish that I...

  Remembering a fun work trip this past September that I finally downloaded from my phone!    

Words from this week: ************************************************************************************* Julia:  Dad, what does stout mean? Dad:  Strong Julia:  Hold up, 'I'm a little teapot, short and strong? Whatevs"...

Wednesday morning I woke up feeling like poo. My throat hurt. Whenever my throat hurts, that is when I pull out all the stops praying to God to take it away. I make all sorts of promises about the good that will pour out of me if only my throat would stop hurting. I...

    Tuesday:  Handwritten Note Day Now THAT is one thing I am good at! I love to write letters. At home, there are available cards in each room. I carry them in my purse. We take them to restaurants for the kids to write their grandparents while we wait for...

Waiting patiently... Approaching Master Kim for his test... About to break the board... So nervous... Look at that! Three pieces!

If I letterbox the photo, it doesn't look as bad, right?   Ok, 1960's. Better? nope. Why is food so hard to photograph? All you food photographers out there - mad props to you. You are awesome. Banana Bread. (Thank you, Gwen Stefani ~ I always spell that...

Have you heard about what Julie and Jeannett are up to this week? They had this great idea to do something meaningful for others leading up to the holiday season. They are calling it The Happy Day Project.   Don't you love when you concentrate on someone else for...