Making It Mine

This week has been a special week. We drove home from the wedding and most of the trip home I looked like this ….attractive isn’t it? Folks in 3 states drove past this face…meanwhile my husband was probably thinking this is the quiestest she’s ever been! then a funny thing happened on Monday, the doorbell…

My first experience with teenagers were with youth group members and students in my own classroom. There was always an exuberance about them, a little testiness…but all in all, really good experience. (let us all remember that at church parents are near, at school, principals are near….but in the step mother world….no protection is offered…

Some days I simply wish for a simpler life. My friend’s mom had the best title ever, it was simply Richard’s wife. She was a stay at home wife, mom, and grandmother eventually. She never went to town for anything except the parades and groceries. She was a together person, calm, serene, and always a…