I have always had a strong faith in God and prayer has been important in my life, but I often wondered why my plans went awry when I was faithfully seeking wisdom. It is hard when we don’t get the answer we want to our prayers…especially when the answer is “no” or “wait”. I must admit that I can be impatient when I want a sign to move forward…I sometimes forge ahead…no matter the consequences which hasn’t really worked for me! I am finding age has it’s good points…other than

Did you wonder if I would ever write another blog? I did….for a bit. You know how life just happens and all of the sudden things aren’t the same! That has been my life since fall of 2014. A wonderful man entered my life November 2013….this fall I resigned from being an Apple contractor, remodeled my home, got married, and I have been in the joyous process of combining our stuff, stuff and more stuff! (Men, I do believe you hold on to more stuff than us gals!) Like many, my li

Renovate – restore to a good state of repair, modernize, refurbish, overhaul In his gentle way, he hugged me and said, “Don’t worry honey, I will take care of it” and he did and One morning while reflecting on all that was going on through these different phases of renovation, I remembered a saying “Life imitates art”… The home renovation became a life reflection…revisiting the personal design changes in my own life …considering my past, reviewing mistakes made as well as cel

The next morning, I rose early to a glorious day. The sun was shining; the air was crisp and clean as I stepped out for my morning Life is like this isn’t it? An unexpected storm hits and knocks you off your feet…you may not have seen it coming…sometimes it is like the unexpected tree branch falling in your path or over a section of your house. This year I have had an abundance of unforeseen challenges…one after another….I have learned that nothing brings me closer to God tha

No, it wasn’t a tire….I have an 8 month old at my house. Now you get it….the best place for it to happen is at home But as in my life…poop doesn’t always happen at a convenient time or place! For a baby, it can be at the nursery and you forgot a change of clothes and an extra diaper in the diaper bag…bad for the sitter…you on the other hand, feel like an idiot as you depart with a bag of soiled clothing….and briefly consider tossing it the trash to destroy the evidence! Poop

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For me reflection begins with laughter at the silly things that have happened…I then move to the losses in life like a friendship that somehow slipped away…or the friends and relatives that passed away…last but never least, come the mistakes…errors in judgement…poor decisions that were made (you know the names we give them screw ups, disasters, mess ups, failures)…. the life experiences that  you and I would like to forget, or redo with a different result. If I stayed in this

Being overwhelmed can be paralyzing…frightening… and we experience feelings across the emotional spectrum? Over the years, I have had quite a few unexpected events…more than I thought I would have and often more than I would like to have had…but what I discovered was that MY unexpected events built my character, required me to lean on “The One” greater than myself. The unexpected was designing the fabric of my inner being. I learned unexpected events required my making a choi

Do you worry a little or a lot…Why do some people worry about everything and others not. How do you let go of what I call the Worry Several weeks ago I received unnerving news from my doctor that something had been found on my mammogram. I was out of town on business when I received the news…news that no woman wants to hear….of my close friends only two of us out of seven that have not had to fight the battle of cancer. The definition….Worry is thoughts and images of a negati