Recently, when I was home, I took Mom to dialysis early on a Saturday morning and the creek was up. It wasn’t high enough to worry about crossing but reminde...

The other day my son sent me a video of my granddaughter walking for the first time. She’d taken steps before but this was the real deal. She walked down the...

Most times in life, we don’t really understand how another person feels until we step into their shoes. I became a mother-in-law a couple of years ago. It’s ...

Life has changed since the simple days of childhood. I’m number seven of ten children born to my parents, Travis and Rachel. I grew up in a little house Dad ...

I see the bike laying on the garage floor as I pull in. I slow down and stop before I bump it with the front of my car. My youngest son has decided this is t...

Growing up, I had a pesky little sister four years my junior. She seemed to follow me everywhere. If I wanted to go for a walk to get away from her or ride m...

Christmas is upon us. Somehow it crept up on me again this year. 💚 This week, there was a discussion at work about buying gifts for our children and a co-wo...

A couple of weeks ago, I took my daughter-in-law to the mall shopping for a new dress. After we looked around and didn't find anything she cared for, we deci...

We just got back from a wonderful beach vacation ❤ We haven't taken a family vacation for about five years, it seems. So, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Th...

My parents always sliced a watermelon when I was young. We kids would grab a slice, sit on the porch together and a seed spitting competition would begin! De...

Heart trouble runs in my family. Dad had a heart attack a few years ago. My oldest sister, Kathy, passed away at 49 of a heart attack. Momma has congestive h...

My parents are getting older. It seems Momma is in and out of the hospital weekly and Daddy doesn't do well when she's not around. They've been married for 6...

It's been nearly a year since my nephew, Brandon, passed away. A dreadful anniversary to keep. But it's impossible not to. It doesn't seem like a year has go...

My husband and I have a plastic ice cream bucket full of old coins. Both of us collected them when we were young and "somehow" our separate collections becam...

Tonight my husband took me on a date to one of our favorite places. I love the restaurant because of the soup they serve as an appetizer. It's chicken and ri...

Our Christmas tree has always been very eclectic. I've got a bunch of ornaments that don't match and I like it that way. They have been given to me over the ...

My parents raised nine children the best way they knew how and I'm so very thankful to have them both as parents. They are now in their upper seventies and r...

I have a little sister. She used to drive me crazy. She was spoiled. At least, that was my perception as the older sister of four years. We shared a room for...

Like a lot of other people, I've had floods on my mind. I know of some who have had to re-start their lives due to flooding. My friend, Lisa, moved to Tennes...

Some things you can not change. No matter how much you want to. It's over. Finished. There's no way to go back to the way things used to be no matter how des...