To Encourage, Uplift and Inspire
The Christmas season is the best and my most favorite of any time of the year! Someone once asked me why. It’s pretty easy, really. The whole season can be summed up in one word: JOY! I went to my trusty dusty Noah Webster 1828 dictionary and found this definition: The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation…
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I love Christmas! I love absolutely everything about it. Every single one of my friends and family knows this about me. Some share my enthusiasm for the holiday season while others simply smile and nod and graciously humor my over-the-top decorating, non-stop Christmas music and, my ultimate guilty pleasure, the phenomena known as the Hallmark Christmas Movie Channel! There are…
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We have a crazy tradition with my family that has been going on for 35 years. It all started when my sister’s and my children were small and we were looking for a place to get a picture with Santa for the holidays the day after Thanksgiving. Someone had the great idea to drive to the largest mall in Southern…
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THANK’FUL – Grateful; impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it. GRAT’ITUDE – an emotion of the heart, excited by a favor or benefit received; a sentiment of kindness or good will towards a benefactor; thankfulness. Gratitude is an agreeable emotion, consisting in or accompanied with good will to a benefactor, and a disposition to make…
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“The most important things in life….aren’t things!” I have this sign hung on the wall in my home next to some photos of my grand babies. Its a constant reminder of the things I’ve chosen as important in my life – my family. My family, as loud and crazy as it can get, is the source of all my joy….
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I had a plan. It was well thought out. I thought through every single detail and processed every possible obstacle I could imagine. I was going to work so hard at it and it was going to be AWESOME! I would be loved and adored by all I met because my plan was so perfect. As I neared the stage…
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