Two sick kids, a sick husband and a sore momma

Oh my friends, what a crazy past two days it's been. Let me start by telling you about yesterday and my physical therapy appointment.  I went in there not knowing what to expect or what was going to happen.  My doctor was extremely nice, attentive and really went out of his way to figure out w…

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Happy Homemaker Monday - 01/29/2018

Good morning everyone, come on in and sit with me a bit. Can you believe that we are right at the end of January?  This is our last Happy Homemaker Monday for this month, so crazy. I had a pretty good weekend, we went out to lunch on Saturday with my brother, sister in law and nephew, and then he…

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Physical Therapy

If I were to pick a favorite time of day, I would have to pick sunrise or sunset, merely for the magical hue it places on everything in sight. A few days ago, the sunrise was especially beautiful, a deep orange and red splayed out across the clouds in the sky and turning all the branches on the tr…

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Happy Homemaker Monday - 01/22/2018

Good morning friends, hope you've all had a good weekend. I had a quiet, uneventful and even at times, slightly boring weekend.  I don't often get the chance to feel bored, so when I do it's quite a weird feeling and I don't really know what to do with myself hahaha It's a good …

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Shooing away that anxiety

I have to start by thanking every single one of you, who left a comment, offered words of advice, let me know I wasn't going through this alone, and gave me hope that there IS an end in sight.  Actually a very easy end in sight, if only my anxiety and brain would cooperate. But I'm trying v…

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You Don't Look Adopted by Anne Heffron - TLC Book Tour - Giveaway

About You Don’t Look Adopted Paperback:  164 pages Publisher:  Running Water Press (February 5, 2017) When you take away the habits of your life, you get to the question of  Who am I?  And if you sit with that, you get to the question of  How far am I willing to go to find the answers?  If you are Anne H…

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Here I am.....this is me!!!

I've been debating sharing this post with you all.  Let's just say that I've thought about it, started to type it, deleted it and forgot about it.  Then thought about it again and talked myself out of it. There's this thing with being human, and that is that we feel we have to port…

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Happy Homemaker Monday - 01/15/2018

Good morning everyone, how was your weekend?  Can you believe that we're about halfway through January already?  Goodness. I've just sat down with a cup of coffee and my rice and lavender heating pad. I desperately need a good pillow because the ones I have are not working and just makin…

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Weekend in Review

Good evening friends, won't you come in and sit with me a little. It's been a pretty good weekend so far, and even though tomorrow is a public holiday and there is no school, and no work, I still decided to treat it as a normal blogging day and just go ahead and do my weekend review today. F…

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Lazy homemaking days

Oh Texas, when are you going to pick a season and stick with it? I don't even know what to think anymore, we have gone from a high of 71 yesterday to super windy this morning and 30 degrees.  That's a 40 degree difference from one day to the next, like what?? I've been spending a lot o…

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Cooking Thursday - Candied Pecans

Good morning everyone. You're probably seeing this post and thinking "What???  A cooking Thursday post, what on earth?" hahah I know, it's been a very long time since I've done one, but I thought I would share one today.  I'm not sure if I'll do it every single week, b…

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{ Silk Flowers - Review & Coupon Code }

I have always liked having plants in my home.  I wasn't always able to have them because they would either die on me, or I found them to be pretty expensive to buy. But I've always wanted to have my house filled with plants, just greenery everywhere, I think it adds such a beautiful charm …

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{ Happy Homemaker Monday - 01/08/2018 }

Good morning everyone and Happy Monday!!! I was actually looking forward to today, not sure why, but sometimes I look forward to a new week, the routine, school and work and all that.  Call me crazy, but it's true. We had a good weekend with an outing on Saturday which I talked about here on th…

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{ What I plan on reading....or, some of it }

I was puttering around the house today and when I came to dusting my bookshelves, I realized that I need to give it a quick organizing. I get tons of books for review, and my shelves are slowly filling up again with books and more books that need to be read and review in the next 2 months. After a…

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Day out with my loves

When we lived in Arizona, we used to go out and do family things, all the time. We weren't spending a lot of money, but we lived right in the middle of Glendale and so close to shopping, restaurants, and all sorts of fun activity things, that we always had somewhere to go. After Curt retired a…

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When it just clicks.....

I was standing at the kitchen sink, a few days ago, and I started to pray. I'm about to be completely open and honest with you all.  I've always had major issues praying, not because I don't feel comfortable about it or don't like, but because I get myself in such a state thinking …

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The past few days...

The past few days have been a mish mash of things, but not in a bad way, in a good, joyful, homemaking and truly content kind of way, even with my crochet which has been making me a little bonkers. I love crochet, I love crochet, I truly truly deeply love crochet. I think I've muttered this to …

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Just Sit by Sukey Novogratz and Elizabeth Novogratz - TLC Book Tour

About Just Sit • Hardcover:  224 pages • Publisher:  Harper Wave (December 26, 2017) From the cofounders of  The Well Daily , a playfully-illustrated, informative, and easy-to-use meditation guidebook—including an eight-week plan for busy novices—that helps even the busiest would-be meditator incorporat…

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{ Happy Homemaker Monday - 01/01/2018 }

Hello everyone :) Happy New Year!!! I can hardly believe that it is the first day of 2018, but I'm quite happy to see it come around, truth be told. 2017 was not a good year for us, in many ways and I'm hoping that this new year will finally be our year.  Praying it is!!! Anyway, I'm b…

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