As confrontations roar these days between people of opposing political opinions, torqued neighbors make it feel like you’re living on the threshold of hades itself, and snarky online comments inflict flaming arrows of hidden origin (and sometimes not so hidden), I’ll admit it hurts my heart. Yours too, no doubt. And I know it hurts ...
BFF Club Winners
CONGRATS to the winners of my recent BFF Club Giveaway! (Keep reading for more about the BFF Club.) First of all, Robin Taylor’s name was randomly drawn to win an adorable Blessed floral shirt just like the one I’m wearing in the photo. And hey, I just might have a few more awesome Blessed Mom ...
A Mom-entous Occasion
I’m getting ready to launch a new book Sept 1 called Too Blessed to be Stressed for Moms. So I’ve been thinking a lot lately about all the hidden joys (and challenges) that go along with momhood. So isn’t it just like Papa God to drop a wonderful mom-moment of nature right into my lap? I was ...
Baby-Loves
I returned on Monday after a three-week trip, starved to devour the nourishing presence of my grands. I’m spoiled, you see, by the fact that they live next door, and I’m blessed to be part of the everyday lives of my twin almost 3-year-olds and their 7-year-old brother. (I also have another 1-year-old grandbuddy who ...
Polution Redeemed
I was traipsing through the deep woods of the Smoky Mountains when I saw it. Something completely out of sync with this beautiful Cathedral of Papa God’s Creation. A plastic bag, the kind a newspaper comes in, was apparently stuck in the branches of a tall rhododendron, one end flapping in the breeze like a ...
Milking It
I recently saw a YouTube video featuring a young man who rehabbed a baby squirrel he found caught in a trap. Both the little squirrel’s arms were broken by the trap’s steel jaws and had to be amputated due to permanent nerve damage. But that didn’t stop the feisty furry firecracker; she never lost her ...
Extra Friendly Day
My feet began to ache but I persevered as I made my way through the crowded mall, searching for the perfect hat. (This is a never-ending quest for me; it’s like trying to find that elusive perfect purse – I’m beginning to think the creature’s existence is simply a wicked fable.) At first, I thought ...
Mah-val-US Mother’s Day Winners!
I hope each and every one of my BBFFs (Blessed Blog Friends Forever) enjoyed the blessings of celebrating your loved ones on Mother’s Day, and for three of you, it’s not over yet! Many thanks to all of you who entered and sent in photos of your fave Mother’s Day peeps; I greatly enjoyed sharing ...
Granny Knows Best
The other day as I was cleaning out a box of materials I’d collected (I save any funny or unusual articles I happen across in case they might come in handy one day for a book), I found a newspaper article about how the study of fossils has proven that male mammoths were prone to ...
Go, Girls!
Don’t ya just love it when something new and fun jumps right out of the Bible and God-smacks you? I had one of those this week. It happened while I was reading Romans 16, a passage I’ve read countless times before – one of those rather mundane, drone, skim-through chapters of Paul’s greetings to folks ...