Lucky Dorito

All the Christmas decorations are put up for another year. The house is back to normal once again.  Today we ate a hearty meal of pork roast, cabbage and black eyed peas (blecht!). December always rushes in, on the heels of Thanksgiving, so full of anticipation and excitement as the promise of family time approaches [...]

I wish each of you a very blessed celebration of the birth of Christ! Merry merry Christmas friends!

My sister C has shared the past 9 years of her life with this sweet little guy, Murphy. He came into her life shortly after a divorce, when she was sad and stressed. He showered her with that wonderful unconditional love that only dogs can offer so selflessly. If you are a dog-lover, you know [...]

I’ve been sewing quite a bit lately. Unfortunately, we keep our ironing board and iron upstairs in the master bedroom (because Mr. Lucky uses it DAILY) while my sewing machine is downstairs in the guest room. This means I am forever dragging the iron downstairs and laying a piece of cardboard with a folded sheet [...]

I am making plans to go to Guatemala again in January 2012, just a mere 10 weeks from now. Once again, I’m taking orders for t-shirts that will help me raise funds for my trip. The shirts will be black with the writing in white except for the word LOVED – which will be in [...]

I was having a particularly bad day yesterday (if you didn’t notice by my post). I was definitely out of patience with so many things in my life. I went to bed very sad and discouraged. I slept poorly – which almost never happens to me. This morning, the first thing I saw when I [...]

I don’t necessarily mean that literally……….although, sometimes some people do stink. Literally. More to the point are people that say one thing and yet clearly mean another. That stinks. Or people that tell half-truths to keep from hurting my feelings – when in reality, knowing the truth would hurt less in the long run. Maybe [...]

My dad left us three years ago, in the blink of an eye. No illness, no accident, no warning whatsoever – a massive heart attack that took him in an instant. I think of him almost daily now  – probably more often than I did when he was alive, if the truth be told. That [...]

Remember last year when my sister Lena and my friend Shannon helped me paint my kitchen cabinets? Every since then, I’ve been thinking of making some little curtains to just add a pop of color to the windows. After spending an extra few days at home sick this week, I was able to get caught [...]

This past Sunday, my sweet Luby was baptized. She had been saved a few months ago, actually during the week that Shannon and Madison were here visiting. With all the summer trips and general busyness of life, it wasn’t until this past weekend before we could get it scheduled. I am so proud of her [...]