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Bring Your Brave and fight Breast Cancer.

October 19, 2015 1 Comment

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Bring Your Brave campaign for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. Stupid cancer!  I hate it.  In all its forms… I hate it.   My boys lost their father to colon cancer, and I lost a sweet friend to […]

Filed Under: Keepin' It real, Real Life, Tales To Tell

How I became friends with my husband’s ex-wife.

July 10, 2013 57 Comments

It’s my birthday today.  I thought I would tell you about a gift that I recently received… an unlikely friendship with my husband’s ex-wife. Sounds strange, right?  Let me explain. Just over 6 months ago my 15 year old step-son, Mitch, was in a horrific accident.  While he was riding his bike home from school, […]

Filed Under: Faith, family, Mitch, Tales To Tell Tagged With: Faith, Mitch

The Table Fart Story.

March 15, 2013 6 Comments

Did I ever tell you that I worked as a waitress during college?  It was hard work, but fun.  I loved the interaction with the customers (most of them, anyway) and I got plenty of fodder for funny stories.  (Someday I’ll have to tell you about the time I got salad dressing on a customer’s […]

Filed Under: friends, Funny, hilarious, just funny, Tales To Tell

How a backpack and a helmet saved our son’s life.

February 4, 2013 43 Comments

A  backpack and a helmet saved our son’s life.  Well… we’re pretty confident that God had a hand in it too. Last week our son Mitch was hit and then run over by an SUV on his way home from school.  The support and prayers from our friends, family and community has been overwhelming.  And […]

Filed Under: family, Mitch, No Mom wants to hear..., prayer request, serious stuff, Tales To Tell Tagged With: Faith

Love, loss, and how my boys taught me about grace & forgiveness.

March 28, 2012 78 Comments

death, loss, ex spouse, ex husband, mourning, cancer

My ex-husband died this week. I’m going the serious route today: love, life, divorce, death, and what I’ve learned about grace, forgiveness and strength of character. If you’re here for a craft tutorial, a funny story or a DIY project, I’m afraid you’ll have to come back later or peruse the archives for them. If you want to know what I learned, read on…

Filed Under: Conner, Devin, family, Real Life, serious stuff, Tales To Tell

I was my own Prince Charming. (It’s made me a better Queen of the Castle.)

November 2, 2011 Leave a Comment

Did you guys know that before my blissful marriage to Handsome Hubby, I had been previously married? I mean, why would you, right? (Unless you’ve read our story, you wouldn’t know.) The divorce was one of the most pivotal moments of my life.  Not just because my marital status changed, or that I was left alone […]

Filed Under: family, serious stuff, Tales To Tell

9/11

September 9, 2011 17 Comments

I had another post planned for this morning, but I have September 11 on the brain.  I can’t even think of a title for this post… so please bear with me as I get this out of my head and off my chest. Waking up and turning on the news this morning to hear that there […]

Filed Under: family, serious stuff, Tales To Tell Tagged With: Serious Stuff

A phone call… from Heaven. (There is no other explanation.)

May 5, 2011 107 Comments

Do you believe in life after death? In God? Do you think you can get a phone call from heaven?

Filed Under: Faith, friends, serious stuff, Tales To Tell

The perils of nose picking.

September 1, 2010 17 Comments

Like many kids, when Devin was little he used to pick his nose. Like many moms, I tried everything under the sun to get him to stop. There was an art supply store that I frequented on a regular basis. The shopkeeper, Jerry, was a funny old guy. Jerry had a great sense of humor. […]

Filed Under: Devin, family, Funny, No Mom wants to hear..., Tales To Tell Tagged With: Devin

Chicken breasts.

September 27, 2009 26 Comments

I went to a charity fundraiser with my friend Jodi last night. We got dressed up…   we put on make-up…   I spent more than an hour actually drying and styling my 45 pounds of hair…   We were lookin’ good. Upon arrival, we headed (immediately) to the bar and each got a glass of wine.   We […]

Filed Under: Big Time Fail, hilarious, Keepin' It real, quirkiness, Real Life, Tales To Tell, Well this sucks

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