When you haven't blogged much in months, sometimes that only thing you can do is just jump in....like into the deep end of a cold swimming pool...just get it over with already, you know? And, it occurred to me that the best way to do that today is to join The Gypsy Mama on Five Minute Friday. So here goes: Expectation I’ve been married nine years to a man I never expected to marry. I mean, ...
Motherhood
Notes from Nana: TEACHERS AND MOTHERS
Perhaps society always needs a little reminding to appreciate, value, and honor mothers and teachers! How appropriate in May to write about teachers and mothers in the same column. A mother is a child’s first teacher! Mothers are honored this month with a special day. Teachers are finishing up another school year. Congratulations to all! Congratulations to many high school and college ...
So….I’ve completely forgotten how to bake.
Seriously. Granted, I have done almost no cooking for the past three months, but this cake was a disaster. I wanted to make my husband a cake for his birthday. He's easy. His favorite cake is yellow cake with chocolate frosting. And, he likes it just as well from a box mix and a can of frosting. But, no, I couldn't do that. I had to make it all myself. After months of letting other people ...
Just When We Needed A Miracle!
Maybe you don’t think that flowers are a miracle. But perhaps it’s because flowers are so common place or ordinary that sometimes we don’t notice how spectacular and how beautiful and how splendid and how really wonderful they actually are! Like God! Remember: “He made everything beautiful in it’s time and created the earth and plants and vegetation of all kinds. And the lilies of the field! ...