The boys went on one of their monthly camping trips with the Boy Scouts so I found myself with time to myself this weekend. My friends and I have been saying that we needed to plan a girls night, and I decided that it was time to plan it and quit talking about it. As …
Who Knew?
Ok, so I had this hair-brained idea to go all out and market my blog...even posted a hideous video of me chasing a dead (or semi-dead) mouse out of the house. But, guess what I learned today? I am not the wizard of laying out a blog so that it makes sense and you can easily …
Bellyaches and House Guests
Most everyone who knows us, knows that we have had a rough few weeks. My husband was in the hospital and had to have major, life-changing surgery. Understandably, things have been very tense and we've had many of our friends and family very worried about us. Today, his best friend brought his wife and kids …
Cancer……Never to be the same
Cancer. The word just sucks. It embodies everything that we fear about it....death, finality, and despair. It's amazing how one little six letter word can cause so many emotions to come trickling out of us. However, I don't know if anyone can truly understand its depth without having been personally touched by it. If you've …
How I Learned to Let It All Go
I used to be a chronic worrier. Well, that’s not exactly true. I’m still in the recovery phase and slowly weaning myself from the unhealthy and obsessive compulsion to worry. Nonetheless, I have decided that worry is only a thief of joy and an enemy to self confidence. To see this, I had to take …
It’s About the Journey
While driving to work today, I had an epiphany. Many times in life, I'm inclined to take the easy road and think that once I reach that "destination," that next best thing, I will be happy, or complete. Yes, the journey is nice. Yes, you see some great things as well as experience some big …
The Ugly Seeds of Hurt
I am a very sensitive person, anyone who knows me knows that is a fact. That is a big flaw for me, so here goes a post where I expose my wounds and let you in on the big ugly truth. When I am hurt, I bury that within me like a seed. When I …
Woodbury
The joys of living and working in small towns are plentiful, at least with the things that I have experienced--of which some people have commented could have only happened to me. When they say that, the old phrase that "crazies attract crazies" comes to mind and I shudder at the thought of any magnetism that …
My Nannie
Why is it that life happens right before our very eyes but all too often we are so caught up with things that we don't really live it? When I watch old videos from my childhood I can't help but think of all of my insecurities that I had as a young teen, some of …
Aunt Glad’s Teacakes
The glass cookie jar would rattle even when you put the lid on ever so gently. There was no such thing as sneaking a teacake from Aunt Glad's house. She kept her teacakes in jars and sometimes in a leftover Christmas-looking red and silver tin can. There really never seemed to be enough of them. …
Messpot Diaries 